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Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, May 30, 2022. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.
Hub Interview

Freeland battles the inflation fire: The Hub Roundtable on the government’s response to our economic troubles

This week’s Hub Dialogue Roundtable discusses Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s speech this week to the Empire Club in Toronto where she announced measures in response to growing inflation. Will it work?

Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube, flanked by Minister for Health and Social Services Lionel Carmant, responds to a question after revealing the province's new health care plan during a news conference in Montreal on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press.
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To improve Quebec's outdated health records systems, the data must follow the patient

Quebec’s outdated and inefficient systems make it needlessly difficult for researchers to access data. And more importantly, Quebeckers deserve easily accessible medical history for patients and clinicians, writes Maria Lily Shaw and Krystle Wittevrongel. 

Maria Lily Shaw and Krystle Wittevrongel - Posted on June 15, 2022
Moms Stop the Harm advocates and supporters gather at Centennial Square on the sixth anniversary to mark the public health emergency of the declaration due to the significant increase in opioid-related overdose across the province during the Cut The Red Tape theme in Victoria, Thursday, April 14, 2022. Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

Let’s face it. Harm reduction has failed

Canada’s harm reduction strategy to battle drug overdoses is a failure. Casualties continue to climb. The enemy is winning. It’s getting worse and there’s no end in sight.

Mark Johnson - Posted on June 14, 2022
A health-care worker pushes a patient across a footbridge into a hospital, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, in Montreal, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

How to fix Canada's broken health care

High-quality universal health care can be preserved with extra funding targeted to those providing direct patient contact and the use of cost-saving innovation.

Harry Rakowski - Posted on June 8, 2022
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, is shown how to properly check the pulse of nursing student Sofiia Daysh, right, by student Ugochinyere Ezeh, centre, as he tours a mock up health-care unit that have second year nursing students working on high fidelity simulators at Humber College during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press.
Hub Interview

Why we need a modernization of the Canada Health Act: Dr. Adam Kassam on future-proofing Canada’s health-care systems

Past president of the Ontario Medical Association, Dr. Adam Kassam, joins Hub Dialogues to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of Canada’s health-care system and the need for reform.

A resident talks with a health-care worker in a COVID-19 infected ward at Idola Saint-Jean long-term care home in Laval, Que., Friday, February 25, 2022. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

‘I don’t think people recognize the importance of policy’: Donner Prize nominees are a cross-section of Canadian policy problems

To André Picard, the Globe and Mail’s health care columnist and Donner Prize nominee, public policy is the scaffolding around our lives.

Stuart Thomson - Posted on May 31, 2022
A resident sits in his room at Idola Saint-Jean long-term care home in Laval, Que., Friday, February 25, 2022. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.
Hub Interview

Health care in Canada is a ‘mess’: Journalist André Picard on fixing the system and improving the lives of our elders

The Globe and Mail’s health care columnist André Picard drops by Hub DIalogues to discuss his important new book on the ways our health system is failing and the improvements we should make to elder care in Canada.

This April 6, 2016, file photo shows the Pfizer logo appearing on a screen above its trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Richard Drew/AP Photo.
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Big Pharma: Pandemic heroes or profiteering villains?

The miraculous COVID-19 vaccines would not have been possible without the work and innovation of Big Pharma companies. How, then, should we deal with their profiteering tendencies?

Harry Rakowski - Posted on May 17, 2022
A security guard wearing a mask to help protect from the coronavirus stands behind a fence, Monday, March 28, 2022, in Beijing. China began its largest lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in its largest city of Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's "zero-COVID" strategy. Andy Wong/AP Photo.
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Which has been better for managing COVID-19: Autocracy or democracy?

China points to how superior their harsh regional lockdowns have been in controlling the pandemic in their country. In their view, autocracy trumps democracy in the handling of the pandemic. Is there any validity to their claim?

Harry Rakowski - Posted on May 4, 2022
Pedestrians help a man in a motorized wheelchair across a snowy street in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, January 15, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press.
Hub Interview

Brian Dijkema on the importance of work and reforming Canada's system of disability benefits

Brian Dijkema joins Hub Dialogues to discuss the new Cardus paper on the importance of work for people with disabilities and how we can better allocate our scarce resources in a more just manner.

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