After many years of success, EvidenceNetwork.ca is no longer in operation. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the organization over the past decade including our dedicated researchers, newspaper editors, readers and funders. However, now it is time to move onto new ways of looking at knowledge mobilization and policy. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Shannon Sampert at s.sampert@uwinnipeg.ca.

Four ways to take your idea for Canadian healthcare innovation beyond the pilot phase

A version of this commentary appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Province and the Hill Times It all started when the two of us sat down over a cup of coffee. As a family physician and endocrinologist, we stand on opposite sides of a large chasm called patient wait times, and we both started […]

Les contresens de l’industrie alimentaire lorsqu’il s’agit de réglementer la publicité destinée aux enfants

Une version de ce commentaire est parue dans Le Droit, La Presse and Le Huffington Post Quebec Il n’y a aucun doute que l’environnement alimentaire a une influence sur ce que mangent les gens, et que la publicité par l’industrie alimentaire en fait partie. Les enfants au pays souffrent maintenant de maladies chroniques qui n’étaient observées […]

Regulating food marketing to kids

There’s no denying that the food environment influences the diets of Canadian families, and that food industry marketing is part of that environment. Canadian children are now developing chronic diseases that were almost exclusively seen in adults when I went to medical school a few decades back. There has been a big shift in our […]