Tag: Health Care

The coronavirus outbreak has sparked a rise in anti-Chinese racism. What are the historical roots of this response, and how might we confront it in Canada?

As Saskatchewan shows, when you allow private companies to make bank on the backs of the public, it’s the people who pay.

Can Alberta’s labour movement rise to the challenge presented by the new UCP government?

End-of-life doulas are gaining popularity, as people begin to resist highly-medicalized palliative care and seek a gentler, more personalized death. But will they ever be integrated into Canada’s public health system?

When doctors deny trans people the right hormones or surgery, trans people will find creative ways to transition on their own terms. Winner of the 2018 Andrea Walker Prize for writing on women’s and trans people’s health.

Universal pharmacare would ensure that everyone who needs medicine gets it.

Thirty years after the Morgentaler decision, reproductive rights fall short of full reproductive justice – including the freedom to have and raise children in safe and healthy communities.

Defending reproductive rights everywhere in the age of Trump.

Abortion is a safe, legal, and common medical procedure, but in the Maritimes and in northern and rural communities across Canada, there are major barriers to access.

Harry Leslie Smith lived through the Great Depression and WWII and he’s touring across Canada asking people to stand up for socialized medicine.

Addressing the deadly intersection of unjust health care and immigration policies.

What forces shape the health of immigrants and refugees in Canada?

What can be done about the Conservative attack on universal health care?