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Accountable for what? Measured by whom?
BY Ivy Oandasan - August 19, 2026
This country’s economic strategy must include the health of the workforce, and that requires accountability for how funding is spent. Read full story
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Canadian Medical Association and Canadian Cancer Society lead health lobbying in 2026
BY Tessie Sanci - August 9, 2026
Both groups lauded the introduction of Bill S-5, which requires that digital health data be shareable across different technology systems, this past winter. CMA past president Dr. Margot Burnell says her organization has been lobbying for this type of legislation for decades. Read full story
Opinion
Health-data sharing across provinces is the cornerstone of the government’s new AI strategy, but will our privacy really be protected?
BY Dean Regier,Bret Nestor - August 6, 2026
If Canada wants to become a global leader in health AI, it should also become a global leader in demonstrating that 'privacy-preserving' AI actually preserves privacy. Read full story
Opinion
Global health’s next frontier is research, not just aid
BY Kapil Kapoor - August 5, 2026
As global health threats become more complex and interconnected, Canada can strengthen health security at home and abroad by investing in locally led research and scientific partnerships. Read full story
Opinion
Canada’s pharmaceutical strategy needs the entire supply chain
BY Angelique Berg - August 5, 2026
If Canada is serious about pharmaceutical sovereignty and supply chain resilience, it must adopt a whole-of-sector approach.  Read full story
Opinion
Lack of innovation isn’t Canada’s problem—it’s the lack of adoption
BY Cameron Groome,Ken Hughes - August 5, 2026
This country has ample creativity and invention, but we’ve been chronically ineffective in actually adopting innovative new products and services. Read full story
Opinion
Canada underinvests in Black health, one window into broader policy bias
BY OmiSoore H. Dryden,Eric Peters,Winston Husbands - July 31, 2026
Canada abstained from a March 2026 United Nations vote condemning the trans-Atlantic enslavement of Africans as ‘the gravest crime against humanity.’ That abstention was not symbolic, it was policy, write members of the Interim Committee on HIV among Black Communities in Canada. Read full story
Opinion
Past due: a plan for children and youth in Canada
BY Emily Gruenwoldt,Sevaun Palvetzian - July 30, 2026
The future of this country will be shaped not only by the challenges we face today, but how we invest in the children who will inherit them. Parliament must move swiftly to pass Bill S-212 and create a national strategy for children and youth. Read full story
News
Finance and health ministers to discuss health funding, but Carney doesn’t commit to extending bilaterals for mental health, home and community care as premiers say they’re facing ‘fiscal cliff’
BY Tessie Sanci - July 27, 2026
A series of funding deals will expire next March and premiers are urging that those be renewed. 'My hope is that we can reach a solution quickly, put the health issue behind us, [and] have certainty for our own budgeting processes,' said B.C. Premier David Eby. Read full story
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Feds’ pharma task force says cutting time to get medicines onto public plans should be a priority with a three-month deadline
BY Tessie Sanci - July 24, 2026
The federally appointed group’s report released on July 24 says the multi-year process between Health Canada’s approval and drug pricing negotiations is contributing to companies ‘deprioritizing Canada for product launches.’ Read full story