Policy Options

The 2019 federal election just got more complicated, as the issue of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) has been thrust back into the news and onto the desks of...

New evidence could help Canadian scientists and policy-makers transform how chronic diseases are treated. Last spring, Canadian researchers found unequivocal evidence that environmental exposure has a significantly stronger impact...

When several American states established some of the most restrictive abortion laws since Roe v. Wade this spring, waves of Canadian millennials took to the web. They not only...

Every day there are thousands of Canadians who are suffering as a direct result of wildfires, flooding or other climate-related illnesses. They are reclaiming their basements from mould, because...

When Canada’s Supreme Court made its unanimous ruling on assisted dying in 2015, it could be argued that it enabled one of the greatest steps toward “patient-centredness” in our...

In recent years, conversion therapy has become a topic of legislative attention. In 2015, Ontario prohibited these practices, which aim to change youth’s gender identity or sexual orientation. Nova...

The food movement has a lot to celebrate in Canada’s first ever food policy, launched by the federal government in June. Rather than looking at the components of the...

June 12 marked the release of the Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare. The Council recommended that Canada adopt universal, single-payer pharmacare, and...

Canada is reaching the limits of a drug policy centred on harm reduction — a philosophy that aims to limit the harms of substance use without insisting on abstinence....

La première chose que j’ai remarquée après ma chirurgie de féminisation faciale il y a quelques années, c’est la dissipation de mon anxiété et de mes peurs de l’espace...