It was surreal, really. About 30 women gathered for a Thursday luncheon at the Manitoba Club, enjoying a chicken caesar salad while their guest speaker held the floor with a PowerPoint presentation to underscore his main points. Suddenly, the screen was filled with a photo of male genitals covered in ulcers, or “chancroids,” the more […]
The Canadian fiscal transfer system is relatively simple and designed to address fiscal imbalances arising from economic differences across provinces and territories that are related to per capita income and natural resource endowments.
La malnutrition est un problème commun chez les patients des établissements de soins de santé au Canada, et elle représente un coût de 2 milliards de dollars chaque année Comme le dit l’adage, « vous êtes ce que vous mangez ». Dans notre pays développé où l’obésité est souvent une préoccupation majeure, nous utilisons normalement cet adage […]
It’s time we put Housing First For most of his life, Murray Barr was an ordinary American until everything changed abruptly when his story of personal tragedy and period of homelessness created a media frenzy. It was in his article, “Million Dollar Murray,” that Malcolm Gladwell turned homelessness into a celebrity cause by illustrating […]
Bernie Sanders made a splash last week when he introduced the Medicare for All bill in the United States Senate, flanked by 16 other Democratic senators who all pledged their support for the implementation of single-payer healthcare in the United States. Given the multiple fault lines in health policy in Washington—including within the Democratic Party—that […]
Canada has had 2458 opioid related deaths in the past year According to the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI), the rate of opioid poisoning hospitalizations has been steadily on the rise with approximately 13 Canadians a day hospitalized for an opioid overdose in 2014-2015. What began with the over-prescription of opioids such as […]
Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s proposals for tightening tax breaks associated with private companies is generating several kinds of response on social media and in mainstream media. The most evident is an impressive deluge of evidence-free rhetoric claiming that the proposals are an attack on everything from the middle class to maternity leave for female doctors […]
Une prestation d’invalidité fédérale pourrait être modelée sur le supplément de revenu garanti pour aînés Les murs qui se dressent entre les nations font beaucoup jaser. En revanche, on passe pratiquement sous silence les murs qui existent au sein même des nations. Au Canada, c’est le « mur de l’aide sociale », particulièrement difficile à surmonter, […]
Il y a trois ans, Robin Williams, l’acteur comique tant aimé, a été retrouvé mort. La police de la Californie a par la suite confirmé un décès par suicide. Une tempête médiatique s’est alors déclenchée : articles, blogues, couverture en direct, reportages télévisuels et déferlement d’émotions sur les réseaux sociaux. Plus récemment, les réactions du public ont […]
Last year, a provincial government report found that dental procedures cost up to 44 per cent more in Alberta than in neighbouring provinces. Does this inflated cost have an impact on dental health? You bet. A staggering 62 per cent of Albertans reported limiting dental visits due to cost concerns. That’s most Albertans skipping basic […]
