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A medical practitioner going over medical information with a patient in an examination room.

Renewal in Canada’s primary health-care system needs a North Star

A dozen medical icons are clustered but don’t connect to each other.

Canada has the tech to connect health records. Why isn’t it being used?

Cannabis vape cartridge with visible THC oil

Legalization’s blind spot: youth exposure to stronger cannabis

Three doctors operate in a room with two hanging lights and very little else.

Canada must act to protect hospitals in war zones

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

Emergency law needs to change for the climate crisis era

The “failure of federalism” at the siege of Ottawa was primarily a failure of governance

Dozens of the tiny one-dose jars are stuffed into two glass jars. 

Before the next health crisis, we need to grow trust and fight misinformation

In a small room with blue walls, two simple hospital beds, two small windows, and a white sheet tacked to the wall, a woman lies with her eyes closes, head turned sideways, on a bed with a black mattress, her new baby resting on her tummy. She looks exhausted. A patterned cloth with browns, whites and black covers her midriff, with the baby on top of it. Her knees are up and her legs are bare. The midwife, a man, wears white rubber gloves as leans over to clean the baby.

Canada must prioritize midwifery as part of its development assistance

Racial disparities are barriers to progress that can’t be ignored

A young girl sits as she gets a needle in her arm from a woman with rubber gloves. The girl is looking away from the needle and is focusing on one of her five classmates gathered around her. They are all wearing forest-green tunics over white short-sleeved shirts, and most of them are smiling. Another adult has a hand on the girl’s shoulder.

Canada’s positions on the international pandemic treaty are concerning

Health care crisis: the fault of (federal) funding or (provincial) management?

Six étudiants en médecine portant leur uniforme bleu et leur stéthoscope, deux garçons, quatre filles, sourient à la caméra.

How to train more doctors in Quebec

Des présentoirs de magasin colorés et attrayants, avec des personnages enfantins, montrent des friandises.

Mignons, mais néfastes

Time to ban non-disclosure agreements

Un stéthoscope prend le pouls d’une représentation de la carte du Canada imitant son drapeau rouge et blanc, avec une feuille d’érable au milieu.

The Canada Health Act needs to be updated

The Canada Health Act does not prohibit private care

Two trains ride on outdoor above-ground rail lines, one of them on a curve on a track that runs below the other train. The fronts of the trains are blue with a white stripe at the bottom. Several passengers can be seen in the front window of one train.

How can we make our critical infrastructures robust and resilient enough?

Gender-equal cabinets have done little so far for women and girls living with male violence

New data provide insight into pandemic inequalities

Make key Quebec public services universal for the cost of a Big Mac a week

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