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  • Jordan Peterson is too big to be silenced by the naysayers and regulators—but what about the rest of us?
    Joanna Baron
  • Canada deserves to be relegated from the G7
    Howard Anglin
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    Geoff Russ

Healthcare In Canada

Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement on healthcare in the province with Health Minister Sylvia Jones in Toronto, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

Ford's health reforms return Medicare to its roots

Ford’s expansion is not private care. It is a shift back to Medicare’s founding principles. Premier Ford has started to slice apart payment for care and management of medicine. He aims to disentangle political risk and service delivery.

Shawn Whatley - Posted on January 23, 2023
Royal Canadian Air Force personnel load non-lethal and lethal aid at CFB Trenton, Ontario on Monday, March 7, 2022. The cargo is bound for the Ukrainian via Poland.  Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.
Hub Podcast

Is the West escalating the war in Ukraine? The Hub Roundtable debates

This week’s Hub Dialogue Roundtable discusses Canada’s decision to send 200 armoured vehicles to Ukraine and whether this represents an escalation, as well as the health care news that emerged out of Ontario this week.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a press conference at a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy in Etobicoke on Jan. 11, 2023.  Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

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

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he hopes private clinics will bring the province’s surgical backlog to normal levels in a matter of months and promised on Monday that the expanded capacity at for-profit clinics is here to stay.

Geoff Russ - Posted on January 17, 2023
A technician operates an MRI machine at a private clinic in Calgary. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

Ontario’s plan to clear its surgical backlog could be a crisis response, or a roadmap to our health care future

As Ontario reached the two-year mark of the pandemic earlier this year, it secured another grim milestone: the province’s surgical backlog had pushed past a million procedures.

Stuart Thomson - Posted on December 12, 2022
A person rests in a room at Idola Saint-Jean long-term care home in Laval, Que., Friday, February 25, 2022. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

The Canada Health Act is failing Canadians

The Canada Health Act transformed medicare. But 38 years on, it’s failing us. A new document to replace the Canada Health Act could be introduced to meet the demands of the 21st century.

Mark Hill - Posted on November 28, 2022
A worker holds a bottle of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as the mass public vaccination program gets underway in the United Kingdom on Dec. 8, 2020. Graeme Robertson/AP Photo.
News Dispatch

Canada's health-care system is a laggard. Here's how the top-ranked countries do it

Study after study shows that Canada’s health-care system is being outperformed by other OECD countries that also provide universal coverage.

The Hub Staff - Posted on November 21, 2022
Paramedics and ambulances are seen outside the emergency department at Burnaby Hospital in Burnaby, B.C., on May 30, 2022. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

Canada used to have one of the best doctor ratios in the world. What happened?

An estimated quarter of Greater Victoria’s nearly 400,000 residents did not have a family doctor in February. In April, the wait times to see a doctor at a walk-in were the highest in Canada, at 161 minutes.

Geoff Russ - Posted on November 21, 2022
Nurses close the curtains of a patients room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, B.C. on June 4, 2021. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

Is ‘liberalized’ care the answer to Canada's health-care crisis?

Canada’s health-care system that appears to be in meltdown. How the provinces solve this problem, if they solve it, could set the course for Canadian health care for decades to come.

Mark Hill - Posted on November 18, 2022
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix, right, is flanked by his provincial counterparts as he responds to questions during a news conference without federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos after the second of two days of meetings, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

Why incentives-based federalism should be the future of federal health transfers

There is nothing preventing the federal government from coming up with its own indicators based on available provincial data and creating a new grant that would complement the existing Canada Health Transfer, which would remain operating as it has.

Livio Di Matteo - Posted on November 17, 2022
People wear face masks as they wait to enter a store in Montreal, Friday, April 2, 2021. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

Janet Bufton: The pandemic shows we expect too much of governments and too little of ourselves

The experience of the pandemic has required some updating to libertarian priors about how much people are willing to sacrifice to help each other. But that doesn’t mean we need to abandon libertarian principles altogether.

Janet Bufton - Posted on November 14, 2022

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