Canada needs clean-air shelters—and quickly
Courtney Howard, an ER doctor and wildfire researcher, explains the urgency of converting public spaces into refuges where we can all breathe easier
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Health
Longevity expert Peter Attia can help you cheat death—for a while
“We have it better than the king of England did 500 years ago! I think about that when I’m distressed about the insignificance of my life, and that, in 30 or 40 years, I’ll be dead.”
Superbugs are overpowering antibiotics. We should fight them with phage therapy.
In 1917, a Franco-Canadian scientist pioneered a treatment that’s become a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant infections. It should be available here.
Climate change is here to stay—and climate therapy might be too
A Q&A with therapist Jared Knoll, who treats farmers and university students with eco-anxiety and eco-grief
I am dying of cancer. Black-market psilocybin gave me a new lease on life.
Mushrooms worked magic on my mental health after a terminal diagnosis. More Canadians should have access to them.
How I Plan to Die
Preparing for MAID is exhausting and expensive. I’m glad I lived long enough to do it.
What it was like to fight a colossal East Coast wildfire
“In my memory, we have never had an incident on this large of a scale.”
How the wildfires are affecting our health
“We’re designed to fight bacteria and viruses. We can’t do smoke.”
I opened Canada’s first dementia village. Here’s how it works.
The village has a general store, a café and bistro, a woodworking shop and a beauty salon
Canadian doctors say birth tourism is on the rise. It could hurt the health care system.
Physicians in Alberta say more people are landing, giving birth and leaving with Canadian citizenship for their kids. It’s straining the health care system in more ways than one.