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Despite having markedly lower COVID-19 death rates than most G7 nations, Canada is on track to record 20,000 COVID-19 cases a day across all age groups by the end...

There is another pandemic. Depression, drug abuse, and suicide are its symptoms. Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer reported the grim story last month: “The situation is most stark in...

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked concern about the mental health of the population and the ability of health care systems to respond to treatment needs. Robust, valid data collected...

More than 11,000 Canadians have died from COVID-19. As the number of deaths continues to rise, so, too, does the pressure on researchers and biotechnology companies to produce safe...

Agnes looks at the person asking her kindly to extend her arm. She does not remember when she arranged to end her life through medical assistance in dying. Nor...

(Ce texte a été traduit de l’anglais.) Au moment même où le Canada s’expose au jugement de sa population pour avoir échoué lamentablement, en temps de pandémie mondiale, à...

Wise societies learn from others. In one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s daily press conferences on April 2, he said that “we’ve learned a lot from South Korea, Singapore,...

The United Nations Secretary General has decried effects of the pandemic as a “generational catastrophe” in education. It’s clear, in the middle of the panic, politics and near-chaos of...

Let’s start with the body, for so much is won and lost and lost and lost there. –  Billy-Ray Belcourt Canadians in the fall of 2020 sit uncomfortably in...

Canada’s history of colonization has laid the foundation for the implementation of racist health policy and the delivery of culturally unsafe health care, resulting in health disparities that are...