No guarantee of quality supports for disabled Canadians
The tangled web of disability governance and policy in Canada needs to clarified and centralized…
Money targeted for health better spent on social programs
Why? Expenditure on social services mitigate the factors that lead to these poor health outcomes, thereby reducing the need for health care…
Ireland’s abortion referendum puts it all on the table
If you probe the granular views of most people, I suspect you’ll find they’re somewhere between the two extremes…
Private care is an essential part of an effective health system
We should stop demonizing private clinics – and the patients who need them – and recognize that they're part of the solution…
Suffering from chronic pain? Don’t give up hope
Many people have ongoing pain where there is no obvious injury, or continue to have pain at the site of an injury long after it has healed…
Madness, murder and antidepressant drugs
From Alexandre Bissonnette to Stephen Paddock to Nickolas Cruz to many more, the connections are chilling…
Drawing on rich traditions to nourish our children
Poor nutrition in Indigenous children, starting with colonization, through residential schools, continues today. It must stop…
Nova Scotia increases health system complexity at the cost of actual care
Strangely, the health authority seems to believe that increasing the administrative burden on clinicians won’t decrease care…
Lifting the veil off the role of women in health care
There’s a significant lack of gender parity in health leadership positions. Pay equity and workplace safety must also be addressed…
MedicAlert a voice for autistics in crisis situations
The silver identification bracelet that indicates an existing condition to first responders…