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A group of four students bundled up in the cold standing in front of a nondescript brick building.

Ontario must do more for international students seeking health care

Man holding hand, giving support and comfort to woman, loved one sick in hospital bed.

MAiD has become routine. Would it be if palliative care was more available?

Line drawing of an assembly of beakers, microscopes, vials, and measuring cups.

Canadian scientific innovation requires global engagement to have impact

A man stands next to a yellow needle drop box that resembles the shape of a mailbox as he looks through a window.

When ideology replaces evidence in the drug poisoning crisis

Four soldiers climbing snowy steps carrying gear from a boat.

Why Greenland doesn’t want Trump’s America

Four Canadian passports

Birthright citizenship and the politics of “birth tourism”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Solicitor General Michael Kerzner shot in profile against a blue sky.

Why “jail, not bail” fails: Doug Ford’s evidence problem

A woman holds a lit candle with signs that say “Save the CDC” and “CDC saves lives.”

Canada can’t rely on U.S. health and food safety as Trump dismantles agencies

A woman speaks with a young boy sitting at a table with a tiny toy truck, a stuffed animal, colour pencils and sheets of paper in front of him.

Taking care of the care workers

People need public delivery not just more spending for dental care

The hands of a pharmacist taking a medicine box and capsule pack from the shelves of a pharmacy.

How pharmacist prescribing can alleviate health-care system pressures

Several people carrying Canadian flags during a protest.

The Emergencies Act under scrutiny

Quatre personnes discutent et échangent des documents à un bureau.

Masks no longer required for public servants at desks and in meetings with distancing

The Liberal politicization of charitable status

A kindergarten teacher helps a boy and girl with a class activity. They are looking at a piece of paper on a table in front of them while she is speaking with a red pen in hand.

Well-funded public schools are more important than election giveaways

With COVID-19, we’ve never been “all in this together”

When will Canadians benefit from the promised mental health transfer?

Young white woman holds a round, white pill to her mouth, with a glass of water in her other hand.

Put abortion pills into people’s hands

A photo of the sign at the entrance of Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council.

Speaking truth to power discouraged in public service

Apologies and promises are not enough to end TB in the North

We’re too attached to our health-care system to properly fix it

Ottawa should push for water fluoridation

A young girl in a classroom wears a mask. She’s doing schoolwork at a desk, with two other students at desks nearby.

Masks in schools: have mask mandates become a proxy for trust in public health?

Families and couples walk down an aisle in the market, looking at the food stalls on wheels. Bright signs light up the area.

What Canada should learn from the Asia Pacific COVID-19 experience

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