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Bad science — and bad business — at the NRC
Focus on commercialization of scientific enterprise is based on a fundamental misconception of how science works A version of this commentary appeared in the Huffington Post, iPolitics.ca and the...
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Canadian medical schools have poor conflict of interest policies
Schools need regulation to prevent industry promotion during clinical training A version of this commentary appeared in the Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald and the Saskatoon Star Phoenix Most Canadians...
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Genetic privacy regulations may have unintended consequences
A version of this commentary appeared in The National Post, Huffington Post and iPolitics.ca Ontario is proposing a change to the Ontario Human Rights Code aimed at protecting people’s genetic...
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Let’s not have Groundhog Day in Alberta’s public health care
A version of this commentary appeared in the Calgary Herald, the Huffington Post and the Edmonton Journal Is it Groundhog Day in Alberta? We Albertans seem doomed to wake every day to the same thorny...
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Cash for blood products a flawed policy
Paying donors not supported by the evidence A version of this commentary appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Huffington Post and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix In the early 1980s, over 2000 Canadians who...
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Why Canadian medicare should neither ‘go Dutch’ or ‘to the dogs’
Canada’s health care system faced some provocative comparisons recently A version of this commentary appeared in iPolitics.ca, the Georgia Straight and the Winnipeg Free Press First was Sarah Boston’s...
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Private delivery of healthcare can work in a publicly funded system but comes...
What the rest of Canada can learn from Alberta’s experience A version of this commentary appeared in National Newswatch, the Medical Post and CMAJ Blogs If you look at an old map of Canadian healthcare...
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How to create an affordable prescription drug plan
New Brunswick has opportunity to reduce pharmaceutical drug prices dramatically with a single payer system A version of this commentary appeared in the Huffington Post, the New Brunswick...
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Four things you should know about the pending Charter challenge against medicare
A version of this commentary appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Medical Post and the Windsor Star A long-running dispute between Dr. Brian Day, the co-owner of Cambie Surgeries Corporation and the...
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BC doctors’ election represents crossroads for the future of medicine in Canada
A version of this commentary appeared in the Huffington Post, National Newswatch and the Georgia Straight Normally provincial medical association elections are not national news. The one vote...
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Canadians should modernize not privatize medicare
A version of this commentary appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, iPolitics and the Huffington Post National Medicare Week has just passed, buoyed with optimism as a fresh-faced government takes the...
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Moving forward on health care reform
Why more money for health care is not the answer A version of this commentary appeared in the Hill Times and Huffington Post In the Speech from the Throne and since, the new Liberal government has...
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