POLICY - HEALTH
Investing in mental health is a sound strategy
If a government invests in the mental wellness of its people, it will be well on its way to addressing Canadians’ top priorities.
Canadian data that would enable effective evidence-based management of stress and burnout remains sparse.
Those engaged on a public policy level must rethink their approach, clear away the backlog of long-term planning cycles and dedicate resources to building a supportive framework based on a single fundamental question: how will this plan or this expenditure actually help the person in crisis right now?
A robust mental health policy promise could help sway millennial and female voters, polls show. Jennifer McLeod Macey, vice-president at Ipsos, says a robust policy promise on mental health could go a long way in shoring up support among those sub-groups, specifically young adults.
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Mental health and quality of life influence how people live and work. It is time for mental health commitments to turn to mental health actions as part of a larger health-care commitment.
Any extension of drug buying here by Americans beyond what is currently allowed for limited personal use would quickly turn the current drug shortage problem in Canada into an emergency.
Even as parties, to an extent, bypass the media to reach key demographics, they still jockey with the others to attract blanket coverage of their policy reveals. 
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business led in groups lobbying MPs as June’s 1,446 reported communications halved the total reported in May.
As the public sphere has become unrecognizably dystopian, the toll on human health includes a range of symptoms it may take more than pharmacology to cure.
Improving access to pharmaceuticals is a worthy discussion for the coming federal election, but for the public debate to be productive it must be rooted in facts rather than clouded by convenient political rhetoric.
If the government fails to respond with solid limits on advertising by September, the vaping industry will continue to promote its products unimpeded and more kids will get addicted to nicotine over the next school year. 
Public opinion research spending reaches three-year high of $15.3 million, with Health Canada dominating departmental spending.
The interventions of two human rights experts are a powerful reminder that the people of Grassy Narrows have suffered profound and unacceptable harms and that they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
It looks like we are about to step backwards as politicians want to be safe in talking about some romantic health-care system that doesn’t exist as opposed to the one that does. 
What is Ottawa’s plan for defending Canada’s prescription drug supply from American importation threats?
Many clients, including our dedicated public servants, have to pay out of pocket to access mental health services. Counselling is not covered under most health plans, and cost becomes a huge barrier.
It’s always the same with right-wing populism. It’s based on the notion that average people won’t notice when they lose out in the fine print.
For the Trudeau government and its 'ban' on asbestos in Canada, it is still okay to dig up millions of tons of asbestos tailings that will emit billions of toxic fibres into the air.
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