Canadians should be able to claim gym membership as a medical expense
Exercise is proven to be one of the most effective and underprescribed medications for the prevention and treatment of chronic health diseases.
Privatization threatens public health-care system in Canada, writes Ottawa reader
Privatization threatens the public health-care system in Canada. By taking funding and staff away from public hospitals, it will make wait times for urgent hospital-based care longer. The Ontario government is running a budget surplus of more than $2-billion, but has frozen funding for public health. It tried to depress the pay of health-care workers […]
Show you can lead in public health policy, Ottawa
Canada’s public health systems are neither cohesive or comprehensive, nor are they accountable for the outcomes they achieve.
Conservative rhetoric on safe consumption sites plays dangerous game with toxic drug crisis: NDP critic
Poilievre’s plan to sue pharmaceutical companies is ‘no silver bullet’ to a ‘complex issue that requires a multifaceted response’ to keep Canadians alive until they can seek treatment, says NDP MP Gord Johns.
Intelligent solutions are the shining stars for Canada’s health-care system
With a long-term plan in place by the provincial and federal governments, establishing a foundation that includes a robust data strategy with intelligent technologies will be the first step in establishing resilient health care in Canada.
How much money does Canada’s health system really need?
Before more is spent on health care, Canadians need to insist on evidence that they are getting better value for the existing expenditures, and demand their politicians exercise the leadership to implement needed structural reforms.
No-cost contraception is the leadership Canada needs to follow
Here’s a reality check: we already pay for people’s sex lives. Unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections cost health-care systems significant sums every year.
Palliative care is everyone’s responsibility
Supporting health-care workers to deliver improved palliative care for Canadians affords us all greater choice, more autonomy, and signals a critical paradigm shift.
End-of-life rights advocates prioritize advanced requests for medically-assisted death, following passing of Bill C-39
Bill C-39 adds another year before Canada’s MAID regime expands to allow individuals suffering solely from mental illness to request medically assisted death.
A shared solution to marketing to kids sounds great, if only it would work: Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition
Re: “Responsible advertising of food and beverage products to children: a shared goal, a shared solution,” The Hill Times, March 6, 2023). Ron Lund, CEO of the Association of Canadian Advertisers, argued that the food and beverage industry’s new voluntary advertising code will adequately restrict marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children. The only problem […]
