The health-care system’s hidden backbone: workplace supports for economic sustainability
Whether it be providing long- or short-term care, unpaid carers reduce strain on the healthcare system by taking care of their loved ones either in the home or the community.
Embracing regulatory ambition to shape Canada’s future in health-care innovation
At this pivotal moment, Canada has the ability not only to redefine its healthcare landscape, but also to lead globally in the sector
Answering a call for help can save a life, but what comes next is just as critical
With 12 Canadians dying by suicide every day, the government has set up a national three-digit helpline. But a compassionate response can’t end there. It demands the availability of real help for Canadians in mental distress, before and after they hang up the phone.
Canada needs a workforce action plan to tackle overlapping crises in mental health and overdose deaths
Canada is grappling with overlapping crises in mental health and overdoses that are outpacing the capacity of the mental health and substance use health system to respond. While governments across the country are taking steps to increase access to mental health and substance use health (MHSUH) services— including a recent federal government announcement of $500-million to […]
Moving beyond Band-Aid solutions to deliver health care fit for kids
The Conference Board of Canada estimates the annual costs to treat anxiety and depression in young people to be $4-billion, which balloons to nearly $1-trillion over a lifetime without timely interventions.
Feds must expand pharmacare to include essential drugs for our deadliest diseases: cancer, heart conditions, and stroke
An expanded pharmacare framework offers a lifeline for millions of people in Canada. It is time for federal, provincial, and territorial governments to deliver it.
Protecting public health care has never been more important
National pharmacare will be extended to 3.7 million Canadians with diabetes and nine million Canadians of reproductive age.
All hands on deck for the future of health care
One major gap that health providers have identified in testimony before the Standing Committee on Health has been the lack of high-quality, comparable data across provinces and territories.
Funding for Manitoba landfill search welcome, but First Nations-led response still needed
My office is still waiting to hear whether the First Nations-led response noted in our reports will be given the utmost consideration.
Buried in the budget: a potential breakthrough in meeting Canada’s net-zero goals
Budget 2024’s support of carbon removal procurement as a climate solution is a welcome breath of fresh air.
