Addressing economic and digital safety is no longer optional for health policy. It is a core component of patient wellbeing.

One medical resident's exchange in Berlin taught her not only about German culture, but how language and other support ...

For my New Year’s resolution, I am reminded that our only true guarantee is the present moment. Amid busy schedules and ...

Don your scarves and pull your toques on tight. But is that winter frost or the bitter chill of progressive health policies put on ice? It’s been quite a year for Canadian health policy. Several ...

Every December, Healthy Debate asks people across the health-care system what they wish for in the coming year. It’s a small ritual, but an important one. Wishes are a way of naming what we value – ...

In Leadership Lessons from a Pot of Flowers, I wrote that the deepest strength of health care lives in its unseen roots; trust, connection, belonging. Nowhere is that truer, or more fragile, than in ...

Despite two decades of technological progress in prostate-cancer treatment, many Canadian men are still not informed about less invasive, tissue-sparing options that could preserve urinary and sexual ...

When the next pandemic arrives (and it will!) Canada will once again face urgent questions: Which treatments work? For whom? At what dose? And how quickly should we act? During the COVID pandemic, we ...

Twinkling lights, time with loved ones, snowy days and gifts galore – what reason could anyone possibly have not to be happy during the “happiest season of all?” It turns out several, especially for ...

Across the street from Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre is an aptly named bar, Blessing in Disguise. Its neon sign was what I first noticed stepping out of a Toronto International Film Festival screening, ...

The message is conveyed to millions of young women who grow up in Canada: period pain is normal; pelvic pain is normal; pushing through discomfort is normal. By the time they finally see a doctor, ...