Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences
The time has come for us to commit to life sciences as a driver for Canada’s economy with the knowledge that this sector can help solve some of our biggest societal challenges.
Canada’s biotech carpe diem
It’s imperative Canada keep pace with other competing jurisdictions, and establish itself as a regulatory leader that rewards investment and talent.
Politics: the overlooked determinant of children’s health
The commitment of elected officials to prioritize our children’s well-being determines how and if policies will be enacted or sustained beyond a single election cycle.
Public servants sound off over new return-to-office mandate, while union faces heat over its ‘Buy Nothing’ campaign
Public service union walks back calls to boycott downtown Ottawa business.
Wake up, Canada: there’s no health or wealth without proper funding of health research
Canada provides significantly more in annual subsidies for the fossil fuel industry than it does to conduct the research that underpins the health and wealth of Canadians.
Bloc to push feds to back MP’s seniors supports bill this fall
There are 52 private members’ bills currently before Parliament, and Conservative MP Randy Hoback is first in line on the order of precedence.
The NDP-backed pharmacare plan is a corporate handout as written
The real problem with this signature legislation of the NDP-Liberal agreement is that it will not bring medicines within Canada’s publicly funded health system.
MAID legislation not implemented: forced transfers for the terminally ill
Too often patients are being forced to leave the publicly-funded hospitals or hospices where they have been receiving end-of-life care because those institutions refuse to allow medically-assisted death on their premises.
Nearly half of Canada’s public servants are now millennials, but Gen X holds onto management reins
Millennials’ ‘fingerprints’ are now on the federal public service, says Deloitte’s Stephen Harrington, while a Carleton University professor says the demographic could be better divided into those hired pre- or post-pandemic.
Growing interest in health-care reform, but private payment still ‘too risky’ for parties to propose, says Coletto
Health-care reform options can be ‘torqued’ on the political stage, making it a difficult policy debate, says former Conservative staffer Laryssa Waler.
