Shawn Whatley: How to get Canada off the health-care teeter-totter
Medicare does not struggle for lack of ideas or funding. It struggles from funding thrown at the same tired ideas rooted in similar political traditions.
Healthcare In Canada
Kelden Formosa: Why are we making young children wear masks at school?
There are serious questions about the relative benefits and drawbacks of imposing mask mandates on very young children at school.
Fear of needles could be driving vaccine hesitancy. Here's how to beat it
An estimated 3.5 percent of the population is diagnosed with a “blood injection injury phobia.”
The federal public health agency needs to get back to its core functions
The Public Health Agency of Canada should eliminate as much of its programs that are duplicative of provincial public health organizations as possible.
Paul Offit: We’ve done the hard part on vaccines, now we need to require them
Be it resolved, to promote public health, governments should mandate use of COVID-19 vaccines broadly in society. The following is adapted from remarks made by Paul Offit and Martin Kulldorff…
Martin Kulldorff: Vaccine mandates are unnecessary and will sow distrust
Be it resolved, to promote public health, governments should mandate use of COVID-19 vaccines broadly in society. The following is adapted from remarks made by Paul Offit and Martin Kulldorff…
Opinion: It’s no coincidence we have shortages in the most regulated sectors of our economy
In the remaining days of this campaign when policy experts and politicians assert that the government needs to intervene to correct a market failure, we shouldn’t merely accept their claims. Canadians ought to push them for evidence that the real problem is a case of the market malfunctioning and not the government short-circuiting the market’s signalling device.
Canada's low ranking on health-care report reveals an unpleasant truth
Our health-care system received an overall failing grade despite the fact that we weren’t even properly tested on our worst subject.
Why is the Delta variant so dangerous?
The increased risk is due to the virus replicating faster with a shorter incubation period leading to a higher viral load in an infected person.
It's not a partisan issue. Our health-care system needs a radical rethink
For more than 20 years now, the Israeli health care system has been fully digitized. That means all your health information is stored digitally and whenever you present at a doctor’s office, the hospital, or an after-hours clinic, the staff have instant access to your full medical history.
