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 […]
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.
