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.
Politicians entrench health-care status quo by preying on misconceptions
Rather than putting forward solutions, politicians of all political stripes have readily played into Canadians’ emotions and lack of knowledge on the subject to push forward their own political agenda.
MAID debate derailed by alternate facts
For the pause to expanding medical assistance in dying to have meaning, the time must be used to develop policy following an unbiased review of evidence.
Tax and regulation combine to crush cannabis innovation and jobs
The illicit market is really the big winner when legal cannabis companies fall by the wayside with no pathway to profitability and no platform to offer innovative cannabis products to consumers.
Feds ‘walk the tightrope’ with health-care offer, but ‘culture change’ needed to reform system, says health expert
A federal source told The Hill Times that ‘sending a bunch of money’ isn’t working anymore, and the offer’s size is based on what the government thinks the provinces need.
MAID’s delay gives Ottawa a chance to finally get the point
In delaying the expansion of MAID, the government has taken a baby step in the right direction, but they are still missing the point: too much time is spent considering who should die, rather than how to help people live.
