We are in the curious position of being one of the biggest spenders on health in the developed world and yet marked by growing shortages of services as well as mediocre performance on many health indicator outcomes compared to countries that are spending less than we do.
Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservative government in Nova Scotia has opened the taps, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try and fix the province’s flagging health-care system.
As we move forward into a post-COVID world, how do we evaluate why people have died during the pandemic? And how do we determine and mitigate our ongoing risk?
This episode features host Sean Speer in conversation with Stanford University professor Geoffrey Cohen on the problems of polarization and loneliness and why belonging is key to a sense of fulfillment.
We find ourselves at a fork in the road. Do we update the remaining vaccine mandates to require boosters and doses of the new bivalent vaccine? Or do we recommend these steps, defer to personal decision-making, and bring an end to vaccine mandates?
To truly tackle the shortcomings of our faltering health care, we need more than short-term cosmetic fixes. We need to be willing to consider fundamental changes.
The vast majority of stories these days about politics and government focus on negatives. The latest scandal. The longest delays. The largest funding mishaps. But we also need to hear the good. Without the positives, it becomes easier and easier to view our political system as unresponsive, incompetent, or alien to us.
Ontario and Canada in the aftermath of the strains of the COVID-19 pandemic are in a protracted health system crisis marked by waiting lists, ER shutdowns and shortages of critical…
Inadequate data collection, arbitrary secrecy, and other barriers to information access are nothing new in Canada. But the problem is particularly acute in the health sector.
The Chinese government should be facing the reckoning of all reckonings for its actions and inactions that caused and worsened this pandemic. It hasn’t.
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