Every day there are thousands of Canadians who are suffering as a direct result of wildfires, flooding or other climate-related illnesses. They are reclaiming their basements from mould, because...
When Canada’s Supreme Court made its unanimous ruling on assisted dying in 2015, it could be argued that it enabled one of the greatest steps toward “patient-centredness” in our...
In recent years, conversion therapy has become a topic of legislative attention. In 2015, Ontario prohibited these practices, which aim to change youth’s gender identity or sexual orientation. Nova...
The food movement has a lot to celebrate in Canada’s first ever food policy, launched by the federal government in June. Rather than looking at the components of the...
June 12 marked the release of the Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare. The Council recommended that Canada adopt universal, single-payer pharmacare, and...
Canada is reaching the limits of a drug policy centred on harm reduction — a philosophy that aims to limit the harms of substance use without insisting on abstinence....
La première chose que j’ai remarquée après ma chirurgie de féminisation faciale il y a quelques années, c’est la dissipation de mon anxiété et de mes peurs de l’espace...
The national pharmacare advisory council’s ambitious report presents a staged, eight-year plan to reduce drug costs and make public drug coverage universal with the participation of the provinces. But...
The Committee for the Implementation of National Pharmacare, chaired by former Ontario health minister Dr. Eric Hoskins, has released its final report. The Hoskins report unequivocally calls for inclusion...
Selon le recensement de 2016, c’est le segment de la population de 80 ans et plus qui augmente le plus rapidement. On considère que 50 % de ces personnes sont des...
