William Gardner has offerred a trenchant response to my earlier post about the relationship between evidence and policy. If you have not read it, take a few minutes to do so and then come back …
Lire le texteFirst it was Ebola, now it is the measles, not forgetting of course the annual debates about influenza. Of course I am talking about infectious diseases and the fact that every once in a while …
Lire le texteLong ago and far away I took a course in philosophy of the social sciences. Surprisingly, this philosophy course involved a field trip and a very peculiar one indeed. On campus there was a small …
Lire le texteIn the budget last week the Government of Ontario announced that it was creating a Centre of Excellence for Evidence-Based Decision Making Support that will emphasize "using evidence to inform choices and lead change in …
Lire le texteIn an earlier post for this blog I challenged some of the conventional thinking about the relationship between scientific evidence and policy. One way of summarizing my argument is to say that, in a democracy, …
Lire le texteIn a recent column Andrew Coyne repeats his usual disdain for common action by Canada's provincial and territorial governments. In his view joint action by provincial governments will result in: "widely varying targets, generally inadequate …
Lire le texteWith global infectious disease outbreaks comes pressure on national governments to close their borders to citizens or residents of affected countries. Too many governments give way to this pressure. Border closures against high-risk regions, implemented …
Lire le texteThis week the country’s fourteen health ministers have been gathering in Vancouver for a pan-Canadian summit to begin negotiating a new Health Accord. The previous accord saw $41 billion transferred to the provinces over the …
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