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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Climate Change Is The New COVID
Listening to National Public Radio (NPR) just now (why do I do this?), the lead item was about flooding in Kentucky. It seems that it rained a lot and some streets became impassable. Fascinating right? But why is this bit of local news a top-of-the-hour blast from...
The Opioid Crisis Reflects a Failure of Public Policy: It’s Time to Move On
What is the end goal for a policy that deals with drug addiction? That’s the key question that political leaders and societal stakeholders should be considering as they announce ever more alarming initiatives in an attempt to limit the number of drug-overdose deaths...
Health-Care Innovation Will Be Key to Smith’s Success as Premier
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivers her victory speech in Calgary on May 29, 2023, after winning the provincial election. (The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh) It’s time to move on. The Alberta election is over: Danielle Smith is the premier and that means it...
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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...
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...
Book Review – Book Delivers a Scathing Diagnosis of Canada’s Ailing Health System
BY TERRY O'NEILL A 2019 rally against private health care in London, Ont. B.C. writer Susan Martinuk’s new book on Canada’s public health-care crisis is timely given the medical system’s lurching response to the COVID-pandemic crisis. (Council of Canadians/Flickr)...
B.C. Medical Journal Book Review: Patients at risk: Exposing Canada’s health-care crisis
By: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) Patients at risk: Exposing Canada’s health-care crisis By Susan D. Martinuk. Winnipeg: Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-7776577-4-1. Paperback, 264 pages. Susan Martinuk is a Vancouver-based journalist and research...
Corbella: Frustrated Doctors ‘Hindered,’ Not Helped by too Many Managers
'They justify their existence by dreaming up new processes and systems that have nothing to do with patient care but that significantly adds to our workload' Judging from the amount of mail I received from front-line health-care workers following my weekend...
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....
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....
Dr. Brian Day: Putting Patient Needs First
Canada's universal healthcare system is considered by many to be one of the touchstones that symbolize Canadian progress. As such, many consider this public monopoly to be an inviolable piece of Canadian identity and any efforts to change let alone improve it are met...
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....