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Tag Archives: healthcare

A COVID Anniversary: Celebrating one year of chasing our tails: Shawn Whatley for Inside Policy

COVID-19 proved that Canadian medicare cannot respond to any increased demand without the threat of collapse, writes Shawn Whatley. Let’s not allow this...

 

April 8, 2021 at 3:51 pm read more

Infographic: COVID-19 in Ontario

MLI Senior Fellow Dr. Shawn Whatley asks, why, over 11 months into the pandemic and amid a predictable second wave, are we faced...

 

March 3, 2021 at 10:04 pm read more

We can all play a part in solving the mental health crisis: Shawn Whatley in the National Post

Solving access to treatment for mental health requires a massive effort. The next few months may feel more like extreme crisis management, writes...

 

February 19, 2021 at 3:59 pm read more

COVID-19 research in Canada reveals Ottawa’s unwillingness to collaborate: Nigel Rawson and John Adams for Inside Policy

Canadian governments, at all levels, must take responsibility for their inept procurement and distribution processes in their health systems, write Nigel Rawson and...

 

February 17, 2021 at 10:41 pm read more

To fix our health care, start with the basics: Shawn Whatley in the Telegraph-Journal

When it comes to healthcare, Shawn Whatley writes that if we get the big things right from the start, we will find much...

 

February 16, 2021 at 8:47 pm read more

COVID-19 - Masking a Failed System: New MLI Commentary

OTTAWA, ON (February 11, 2021): As lockdown restrictions gradually lift in parts of Canada, we are hearing the same message from politicians: these...

 

February 11, 2021 at 3:30 pm read more

COVID and health-care capacity: New symptom, old problem: Dr. Shawn Whatley in iPolitics

Overcrowding, hallway medicine, shortages in long-term care, world-famous wait times, technology shortages, and spiralling costs are just a few of the problems that...

 

February 2, 2021 at 8:51 pm read more

Build health care back better: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

Patient care and not phoney bureaucratic metrics or political grandstanding about equality has to be the focus for everyone, writes Philip Cross in...

 

January 22, 2021 at 2:38 pm read more

When Politics Comes Before Patients - Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing: Shawn Whatley

 MLI Munk Senior Fellow Shawn Whatley discusses his latest book, "When Politics Comes Before Patients."  Canadians care a great deal about healthcare...

 

January 8, 2021 at 4:53 pm read more

Ford's declaration of COVID defeat isn't justified by lack of beds: Shawn Whatley in the Toronto Sun

The hospital crisis is not new. COVID adds a new twist. Real solutions require more than lockdowns and emergency measures. Yet here we...

 

January 4, 2021 at 3:39 pm read more
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    It is clear that Canada must develop more courage and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other liberal democracies to confront Beijing’s aggression. Canada needs more...

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    OTTAWA, ON (April 14, 2021): “Excess deaths” (death rates above the norm) from non-COVID causes are a major explanation for Canada’s poor pandemic...

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    I would undertake three broad initiatives that actually address the current crisis, rather than try to shoe-horn in policies that don’t fit into...

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Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 63 - Where Hong Kong Stands Now with Sharon Hom, Alvin Y.H. Cheung, and Ai-Men Lau...

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