Federal government faces pressure to rethink its safe supply opioid policies
Susan Martinuk
A Suicidal Patient Meets A Healthcare System With Little To Offer
For the past decade, activist groups have been spreading the news about the so-called ‘right to die’ and, according to the latest statistics, their efforts have been a success. The province of Quebec is now the world leader with more assisted deaths per capita (5.1%...
Review: Waiting to Die: Canada’s Health Care Crisis
So, how bad is Canadian healthcare?
Change To The Canadian Healthcare System Can Only Come Through Innovation
Last month, the Winnipeg Free Press ran a particularly sharp critique of Manitoba’s healthcare system, decrying provincial healthcare budgeting as “parsimony” and stating that monetary decisions made by the government since 2015 have created a healthcare crisis in...
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
It’s Time for Canadians to Talk about Health Care
Our health-care system is irretrievably broken. At least five million Canadians are without a family doctor. More than one million Canadians were on waitlists before the pandemic even started. Now, in Ontario alone, it is estimated that 21 million patient services...
Canadian Healthcare Desperately Needs Doctors
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...
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 more patients....
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 restaurants, work out at the gym, go to movies,...
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....
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. WINNIPEG, MB (January...
Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
This book is an exceptionally worthwhile contribution to the Canadian health-care debate.
‘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 equal access to all. What country could...
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 was to...