Health-care roadblocks stymie patients: David Zitner in Troy Media
The Nova Scotia Health Authority lets an inefficient telephone system act as an important barrier to timely care, writes David Zitner. By David...
The ‘Price of Caution’ during a pandemic: MLI Commentary by David Zitner
OTTAWA, ON (August 13, 2020): The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in our health care systems, but to what extent remains unclear. Moreover,...
Measuring Health and Managing Health Care Routinely and in Pandemics: David Zitner for Inside Policy
In the absence of COVID testing capacity, it is important to identify the most common problems in communities and the interventions that are...
Rush to expand MAiD turns policy-making on its head: Harvey Schipper and Harry Swain in the Vancouver Sun
There is something troubling, even dangerous, about the way MAiD is evolving in Canada, and that is the absence of evidence, write Harvey...
How pandemic modelling failed policy-makers, and how to do better: MLI Commentary by Harvey Schipper
OTTAWA, ON (July 9, 2020): The existing models for epidemics, which were used to trigger lockdowns around the globe in response to COVID-19,...
Government refuses to address real cause of missing cystic fibrosis treatment in Canada: Nigel Rawson in National Newswatch
Nothing fair exists in denying Canadian cystic fibrosis patients approved and funded access to treatments that they have been waiting for throughout their...
Beyond Lockdown - Canadians can have both health and prosperity: An open letter to the Prime Minister
(Read the press release here.) May 14, 2020 Dear Prime Minister, Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Canadians have been presented with a...
Canadian Thought Leaders Urge Prime Minister Trudeau to Think Beyond the Lockdown
OTTAWA, ON (May 14, 2020): As lockdown measures continue to grip much of the country and Canada lags other jurisdictions on many aspects...
Our drug discovery system seems broken: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Now more than ever, we should want drug companies to be able to charge high prices, writes Richard Owens in the Financial Post. Below...
COVID-19: What Canada should *NOT* do to combat the coronavirus: Balkan Devlen in the National Post
When dealing with deep uncertainty and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is easier, and perhaps more important, to know what not to do, writes...
