Focuses on the opposition of the provincial premiers against the proposal by Canada's federal Health Minister Allan Rock to save the country's healthcare system by paying half of the cost of Medicare system. Implic...
Mobility restrictions imposed on internationally trained physicians in Canada could be aggravating the health-care crisis intensifying an ongoing doctor shortage. Canada needs to reform its policy on internationally trained doctors to help ease the health-care crisis and, more broadly,...
Heather Whiteside's article, "Canada's Health Care "Crisis": Accumulation by Dispossession and the Neoliberal Fix," argues for the need to understand the development and transformation of the Canadian healthcare system as part of a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation strategies. Building upon...
“We’ve really seen the challenges in the healthcare system brought much more to the forefront during the pandemic. It’s reaching a level of crisis that we’ve not seen before,” Katharine Smart, MD, president of the Canadian Medical Association, toldMedscape Medical News. ...
Canada’s health-care system is under siege. The country is still grappling with an acute crisis in our hospitals stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic while the slow-moving quagmire caused by the country’s aging population threatens to become a larger disaster. Can our system handle it? This...
By Dr. Helia Mohammadi, Chief Data Scientist & Healthcare Industry Lead, Microsoft Canada It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention and crisis is the father. Over the past year, we’ve seen innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning transform Canada’s hea...
Post by Peter Jones, Industry Lead, Healthcare, Microsoft Canada While the COVID-19 crisis has created immeasurable challenges for the healthcare system, it has also demonstrated that there is no shortage of innovators in the industry who were ready to meet the mome...
Health-care funding in Canada has been one of the major topics of debate between the provincial and federal governments in recent months — but will increased spending from Ottawa change the status quo of how health care is delivered? In early July, the Council of the Federation, a ...
03-dec (17:49)Snapshot of the drug crisis in the Sault(CTV News: Northern Ontario) 03-dec (17:47)Fourth case of chronic wasting disease confirmed in area(e-KNOW) 03-dec (17:46)One found dead in Calgary basement with elevated carbon monoxide levels(Calgary Herald) ...
As we enter cold, flu and COVID season, Canada is continuing to experience a health-care crisis.One in sixCanadians don't have a family doctor and less than 50% are able to see a primary care provider on the same or next day. Both theB.C. Nurses UnionandHospital Employees Unionreport...