First Person

"I’ve played festivals and won Juno awards, but somehow I found myself living in my car"

Immunologist Dawn Bowdish tells us why measles cases are soaring, who’s at risk and how we can still stamp it out

B.C. rolled out the Longitudinal Family Physician payment model and gained 700 new family doctors

Bureaucratic barriers make housing inconvenient and expensive to build. If you get creative, it doesn’t have to be.

At the Edmonton migrant centre where I work, 100 people come through our doors every day. We can’t help them all.

I invented the world’s first brain chip. It can cure epilepsy, dementia, chronic pain and addiction—if Canada is ready to invest.

My daughter and I were lucky to find a host family in Ottawa. I want to pay it forward.

Teachers, daycare workers, firefighters and nurses keep our cities running. Too bad most essential workers can’t afford to live in them.

In Belleville, where I’m the chief paramedic, people were dropping like flies. Soon, the city declared a state of emergency.

In December, Ontario patients waited in ERs for an average of nearly 22 hours before being admitted to the hospital