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In 2022, can we finally be honest about our health system's failures

WEBGraham Hughes/The Canadian Press. As we enter 2022, it’s still hard to see beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The rise of the omicron variant and a new round of …

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Social media is driving our mental health crisis—Dr

WEBSocial media is driving our mental health crisis—Dr. Nicholas Kardaras explains how. FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, file photo, a demonstrator joins …

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Health care’s iron triangle is hindering innovation

WEBShawn Whatley: Health care’s iron triangle is hindering innovation. Government, the medical profession, and public-sector unions are preventing …

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Ontario’s new Innovation Pathway is a game changer for our …

WEBIf you are like the overwhelming majority of people who did not read the latest Ontario provincial budget top to bottom, you might have missed a new initiative …

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Number of Canadians who died while waiting for medical …

WEBA study conducted by SecondStreet.org indicates that in 2022–23, a five-year high of 17,032 Canadian patients died while waiting for medical procedures, some …

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How to fix Canada's broken health care

WEBHarry Rakowski: How to fix Canada’s broken health care. Canada has only 12.9 ICU beds per 100,000 population compared to 25.8 for the U.S. and 33.9 for …

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Canada's crisis in waiting: We need health-care solutions, not wait

WEB“Access to a waiting list is not access to health care.” – Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin, Justice John Major, and Justice Michael Bastarache, Chaoulli v Quebec …

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New statistics tell a troubling story: Canada's mental health crisis is

WEBIn September, Statistics Canada released the results of their 2022 Mental Health and Access to Care Survey, and it shows that far more Canadians are …

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Ontario looks to private clinics and the ‘B.C. model’ to

WEBDoug Ford announced Monday that Ontario will utilize for-profit, private clinics to help bring the province's surgical backlog to normal levels. The plan follows the …

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Let’s face it. Harm reduction has failed

WEBAccidental overdose deaths in British Columbia were stable between 2002 and 2010 at just over 200 per year. That was an unacceptably high number at that time …

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The Canada Health Act is failing Canadians

WEBIn 1999, an Ipsos poll revealed a startling fact about Canadians. Amid a general sense of optimism about the country’s ability to handle medical emergencies, …

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Canada's conservatives care about freedom—except in health care …

WEBAndrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press. Shawn Whatley | March 20, 2024. Canadian conservatives—particularly these days under Pierre Poilievre’s federal …

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Changing how we fund hospitals to put the patient first could help

WEBOver the next few weeks, The Hub will be expanding upon the top five submissions for the 2023 Hunter Prize for Public Policy, which asked for proposals that …

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Modernizing patient referrals could be one way to eliminate …

WEBWait-time woes. A 2022 report from the Fraser Institute found that the median wait time for referrals to specialist physicians in Canada stood at roughly 27 weeks—a …

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Health care in Canada is a ‘mess’: Journalist André Picard on fixing

WEBToday’s episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with The Globe and Mail’s health care columnist André Picard about his …

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By 2042, one in every four Canadians will be a senior. Our health …

WEBCanadians aged 65 and over made up nearly 13 percent of the total population in 2002. Their share has increased to 19 percent in 2022 and is projected to …

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Canada's economic future is looking grim—especially when …

WEBBetween 1960 and 2022, Canada’s population increased by 117 percent while that of the U.S. grew 85 percent. As a result, Canada went from 10 to 12 percent …

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Opinion: Canada’s low ranking on health-care report reveals an

WEBA new report released by the Commonwealth Fund reveals the unpleasant truth about Canadian health care. According to the authors, it’s better than the star …

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