The coronavirus pandemic has accomplished what a multitude of government reports could not – that is, to draw Canadians’ attention to a faltering health-care system characterized by a chronic shortage of beds, overflowing emergency departments, and limited numbers of surgical …
Policy on the Frontier: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Healthcare Crisis – Sometimes health care hurts the very people it is supposed to heal. This has long been the situation in Canada, where waitlists, rationed services and a fragmented system are harming more and …
Vaccine Autonomy
As we enter the third year of a global pandemic, it is glaringly obvious that Canadians are divided into two camps – those who are vaccinated and those who aren’t. Those who are vaccinated can keep their jobs, go to …
Canadians are Fed Up
Well. Apparently, Canadians do have a limit to the amount of unnecessary discomfort and ineffectual leadership that they will suffer. Polls, demonstrations and a convoy of truckers entrenched in downtown Ottawa all provide sufficient evidence to show that Canadians. Are. …
Frontier Publishes Best-Seller on Canadian Health Care
Sometimes health care hurts the very people it is supposed to heal. … this is now the situation in Canada, where waitlists, rationed services, and a fragmented system have resulted in tragic and unnecessary consequences to far too many patients. …
‘Side Issues’ Result in Much Higher Costs to Our Health and Social Systems
As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers …
Collaboration, a Plan, Funding, Transparency: Not in Canada
The Human Genome Project (HGP) stands as one of mankind’s most remarkable achievements; its significance is easily equal to, or even eclipses, Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA’s helical structure or Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. The goal …
COVID-19: The Stark Reminder of a Dysfunctional Health-Care System
It has been almost one year since the world was brought to its knees by a microscopic particle known as COVID-19. Since then, the virus has taken the lives of more than 20,000 Canadians and infected another 800,000. But those …
Simple Solutions for Complicated Problems
Modern medicine has at its disposal a vast array of technologies that can be utilized to identify, track and predict the risk and potential impact of emerging infectious diseases. Bioassays, genome sequencing and molecular technology can identify a novel pathogen. …