Canadians deserve sound scientific information on responsible alcohol consumption
It’s clear that more research is needed to best inform Canadians on their alcohol intake.
Health care in Canada is in crisis
None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What’s new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening awareness of Canadians that our vaunted publicly-funded health ‘system’ is not what it used to be.
Amid summer staffing crunch, no provinces have yet submitted health-care ‘action plans’ to feds
The outstanding health action plans are an ‘urgent’ matter, but provinces must take the time to get them ‘as close to right as possible’ says the president of the Canadian Medical Association.
The PMPRB has outlived its usefulness
While patients would undoubtedly like lower drug prices, they don’t want PMPRB actions to lead to developers deciding not to launch new medicines in Canada.
Capitalizing on Ottawa’s COVID-19 digital breakthrough: crucial next steps to build on the feds’ digital shift before next crisis
Parliamentarians and all Canadians must reaffirm the importance of the digital shift, and make a non-partisan effort to keep up pressuring the government to continue investing and moving ahead.
More can be done to support fertility to build a fair and healthy future for Canadians
We can advocate for a National Fertility Strategy in Canada and ensure that the Canada Health Act’s principles of universality and accessibility are respected by all provinces. The gift of life should be a right, not a privilege.
Feds’ suicide prevention framework ‘fiscally irresponsible, scientifically invalid,’ and ‘made people feel good’ without results, say Senators
Senator Ratna Omidvar says an updated framework will need to focus on the overrepresentation of boys and men in Canada’s suicide rate.
Conservatives’ backing of private member’s bill shows abortion debate is far from settled
The U.S. is experiencing a wave of anti-women and anti-gay legislation. Canadian pundits said this could not happen here, but recent news stories paint a different picture.
Fifty years apart, Trudeau governments prefer tobacco harm reduction to protective laws
It took almost two decades before the tobacco control mistakes of the 1970s were remedied by the Mulroney government in 1988. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait that long for flavoured e-cigarettes to be removed from the market.
Canada must move quickly for a successful rare disease strategy
There are still a few key pieces missing to ensure the 3.2 million Canadians living with rare diseases get faster access to the treatments they need.
