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Doctor at a keyboard.

AI scribes in health care raise risks for patients and privacy

A wide angle on Iqaluit from ridge above it in winter, under a mostly blue sky.

A northern university built on unstable ground

Mark Carney walking past a line of soldiers, including Canadian Rangers wearing their bright red hooded sweaters.

Northern infrastructure needs northern talent

A boy in a red sweater is doubled over face-down in front of a box containing cards. Two women sit on the floor on either side of him.

Who pays when autism-care systems fall short? Mothers do

A dozen or so women are lined up outside.

U.S. expansion of the global gag rule is a leadership test for Canada

A man gesticulates talking to a woman, who is holding the bridge of her nose in a pose of stress.

Criminalizing coercive control is necessary, but not enough

Drawing of a row of office workers sitting in front of computers.

The true test of Quebec’s new workplace stress law

A nurse sits on the edge of a bed talking to a patient. Half eaten food sits on the table nearby.

Break down licensing barriers holding back Canada’s health workforce

Canada needs to move toward a public health model of supporting grief

An illustration with faces of people connected by a web of dotted lines. Everyone is wearing a mask.

The next leap forward: Clean air for Canadians

The technician is a woman who is directing a long, tapered tube into a small clear vial. She’s in a white protective covering with lilac-coloured rubber gloves.

Why Canada needs a “deep prevention” approach to pandemic preparedness

A fully gowned nurse tends to a patient with numerous monitors and tubes connected to them.

Ontario’s nurses are fighting back

The health-care system needs rebuilding

Access to nature shouldn’t be a privilege

The woman is wearing a blue hat and sunglasses and is walking away form the photographer on a leafy sidewalk.

The case for using several ways to measure the economic reality of older adults

Illustration of a man receiving chemotherapy. He is standing next to a bag of liquid hanging from a metal hook on a pole.

Want to know where we are with cancer care? Don’t ask Ontario.

Illustration of a woman seen from the neck up, shown in profile, her long white hair flowing out behind her with a collection of cheerful items embedded in it: flowers and leaves.

When women’s health loses, we all lose

A woman carrying a USAID poster featuring a woman cutting flowers walks out of her office with her belongings.

After USAID: Why Canada must lead on global health now

The ornate stone buildings have tall green-hued copper roofs.

The chronic failure to pass social legislation

A line drawing of an older woman sitting on a bench with a cane. The outlines of homes and a tree with a few leaves sit on either side of her. A cyclist approaches from the right.

Canada’s social safety net is stuck in the 1960s

A series of glass towers fill the image.

From boardrooms to beds: Can empty offices ease hospital overcrowding?

Dozens of purple flags about the size of a palm of a hand cover a rectangular grassy area with a line of bare trees and a row of benches.

A “moonshot” at regulating psychoactive substances for public-health benefits

A nurse is holding the arm of a young blond girl in a clinic while another adult looks on. 

Education has an important role to play in overcoming vaccine hesitancy

Several health care professionals standing behind computer screen.

Canada’s health care crisis demands a digital solution

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