A basic income guarantee would be an alternative to our existing social assistance programs which are highly bureaucratic and don’t give people enough money to survive on.
It becomes more and more difficult to find enough families who can provide adequate and good care when there are so many children being put into care.
The homeless population is very diverse requiring a complex set of interventions to end homelessness.
I think we end homelessness one person at a time, one day at a time, by building one house at a time.
I think Canadians would really like to see a day where the headline is: Homeless Shelters Closed – not because of funding shortfalls – but because they were not needed.
Health is not just a function of bad luck, or bad genes. The more money you have, the easier it is to eat well, to live in housing that doesn’t expose you to mold or dangerous chemicals
There is a lot of evidence that shows that physicians and patients too often pursue tests and treatments that are not necessary valuable — in fact they may actually cause harm to patients
There is a sincere desire to understand health beyond illness. We are experiencing a shift in applying this understanding to clinical practice.
