healthcare
I love being an ER doctor—but the patient load is crushing
Physician Andrew Battison is one of 190 doctors asking the Alberta government to increase support for health care
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.
The Power List 2023
Ranking the 100 Canadians Shaping the Country in 2023
How to fix our broken health care system
Dr. Andrew Boozary dissects proposed solutions like privatization and prescribes a new approach to delivering health care across Canada
I’m on a waitlist for a doctor with 95,000 Nova Scotians
More than one in ten people from the province are without a doctor. “Watching my prescription run out feels like watching a time bomb ticking down,” says Evelyn Hornbeck
The idea: FoodRX, the prescribed food delivery program
“Food insecurity can affect everything from cognitive development to anxiety to diabetes,” says UHN’s Dr. Andrew Boozary, on the correlation between access to food and your health.
Ontario nursing schools are seeing an increase in applicants during the pandemic
Nursing schools in the province are seeing a huge uptick in applications, with interest driven, in part, by the pandemic. It comes at a moment when the province is facing a dire shortage of nurses.
Sleep scientists are working to offset the toll of night shifts and stress on healthcare workers
Healthcare workers are well familiar with the bodily toll of night shifts — but the additional complications of COVID, unprecedented stress and the interruption of normal routine are resulting in new levels of exhaustion
Canada’s spat with Saudi Arabia reveals our country’s physician-supply problem
Opinion: We don’t have enough physicians to operate our expensive healthcare system—and that’s exacerbated by the looming departure of 1,000 Saudi medical trainees
The history of why Canada’s health care system falls short
Opinion: Ontario’s election could bring another step toward truly comprehensive health care. But failed efforts from the past reveal possible pressure points
Is Ottawa studying pharmacare to death?
A new advisory council is set to study national pharmacare. The NDP’s health critic says it’s redundant and ‘kicking the can down the road.’