MAID and mental health deserve thoughtful debate
Moronic flamethrower rhetoric and talking points from all sides won’t do the job of properly figuring out what is best here.
Health-care resourcing is failing Canada’s most vulnerable children
The pandemic exposed the fragility of Canada’s health-care system and removed access to necessary supports for thousands of Canadian families.
Experts welcome Rouleau’s call to combat misinformation, say ‘whole-of-society approach’ needed
The current information landscape is a feedback loop where ‘you come for the ideology, and you stay despite the science-free lunacy,’ says health misinformation expert Timothy Caulfield.
Responsible advertising of food and beverage products to children: a shared goal, a shared solution
Industry’s innovative code and guide provide Health Canada with the chance to deliver immediately on one of its top priorities under the Healthy Eating Strategy at no cost to Canadian taxpayers.
Senators agree on extending MAID sunset clause but split on its future
Assisted death for mental illness as a sole underlying cause will become legal in Canada on March 17. Bill C-39, currently at the Senate, would extend that by one year without making any other changes to the pending law.
Protecting publicly funded health care is shaping up as a last-ditch stand
Holding off the push toward private care will take measurable results.
Mushrooms before MAID: May calls for feds to prioritize research, access to psilocybin therapy
Green Leader Elizabeth May says she would feel more comfortable supporting the expansion of medically assisted death if the government was making an accelerated effort to develop alternatives.
EI administrative malfunction: an urgent need for simplicity
Canada’s employment insurance program is far too complicated for claimants and employers, and far too complex to administer.
Growing ‘generational divide’ as younger Canadians report lower trust in government, greater economic anxiety: poll
The survey found that following three years of coping with the pandemic, in addition to increasing economic challenges, ‘disappointment in Canada has taken its toll on youth.’
Premiers ‘feeling the heat’ on health care must show results on ‘vote-determining’ issue, strategists say
‘One beauty’ of having 13 different health-care systems is ‘they don’t all have to do it the same way,’ which leaves ‘space for innovation,’ says Charles Breton of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
