Harness the current momentum to shift the health workforce from a position of crisis to one of strength
The government can reframe the issue by focusing on the demand side of work instead of on the domestic supply of labour.
Iiyika’kimaat in Indigenous health: a call for change and empowerment
A physician who witnesses the realities of an often-inadequate health system for Indigenous communities urges the federal government to implement Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action 18-24.
The federal government is failing Canadian health research
Canada risks losing out by inadequately investing in health researchers working to unlock new discoveries.
Why are the Liberals abandoning hungry children across Canada?
The feds have failed to create or allocate funding to a national school food program in recent budgets, despite the urgent and growing need across Canada.
Stop patching holes in our health-care system and rebuild the ship
We continue to work within and build upon a framework that does not serve Canadians, and the costs of this on both individual and societal levels are immense.
Canada is on track to cure Type 1 diabetes, and we can get there with the right support
Research innovation is becoming increasingly competitive in the post-pandemic world, and Canada is at risk of losing its foothold.
Fixing health system flaws requires better data sharing and workforce strategies, say health-care experts
Improving data accessibility and ways to facilitate co-ordinated care, and reducing the administrative labour for health practitioners are among the recommendations in a new C.D. Howe Institute and HealthCareCAN report.
Solutions exist, but only if leaders are willing to listen to health-care professionals
Experts have offered a range of explanations for the current crises with actionable solutions, and if we listened to them, we could have been on our front foot, proactively planning and properly resourcing.
Needed: less science hype!
Now, more than ever, we need trustworthy science that is grounded in rigorous methods, and science communication that is balanced and accurate.
National strategy needed to address fragmented innovation ecosystem, say researchers
‘There is a sense that we are not certain as to how we are going to invest, grow, and make our innovation ecosystem prosperous for the next generation,’ says the University of Saskatchewan’s vice-president of research.
