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A hospital waiting area.

Why it’s time to move past the Canada Health Act

A young girl plays a game on a phone.

As Canada regulates online design, where do video games fit?  

In an area filled with computer stations, two women look at a screen together.

The hardest part of Canada’s health data space won’t be the technology

A photo showing a phone with an image of a red circle that says “use protection” in it.

Canada approved a contraceptive app. Now it needs to explain what approval means.

A bronze statue of a woman holding a proclamation to the sky with one hand.

Canada must reckon with its history of slavery

A masked nurse administers a shot to a blond girl’s right arm.

The hidden cost of Canada’s measles outbreak

Two men look at a betting app on a telephone while watching soccer.

Governments are gambling with Canadians’ well-being

An illustration of two telephones communicating, one featuring an older man and the other a robot.

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

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

Ostriches gathered around a feeder.

On ostriches, polarizing politics and buried heads

The street is unpaved and lined with low-rise brick buildings, a church and lots of electrical poles and overhead wires.

Building a health workforce that reflects the people it serves

A hand points at a screen showing an array of purple dots and swipes.

Canada’s health data is flowing abroad while Ottawa stalls on AI rules

: Des figurines miniatures debout sur des piles de pièces de différentes hauteurs. Un concept illustrant les inégalités économiques.

Federalism: obstacle or engine of redistribution?

Main entrance of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Montreal, with cars in front of the pavilion and a man walking with a cane and a travel bag, seen from behind.

Transforming health systems: Moving beyond magical thinking to disciplined action

A Tylenol bottle laying on red-white-and-blue capsules.

Tylenol, Trump and the crisis of public health communication

A younger woman dancing with an older woman while several people sit and stand in a circle around them, playing tambourines and other instruments.

Canada’s aging population needs more personal support workers

An illustration of the figure of a miniature human standing on the edge of a bread basket hauling up another person.

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