Discussions

‘Your letter has been forwarded for consideration’: A health expert on 4 ways Ottawa and Alberta avoid accountability

I’m a pediatric neurologist. Over four months in 2026, I wrote 16 parallel letters via email to the Alberta and federal governments on eight public policy topics.
Uganda to a pharmacy owner in Canada

As a child, I walked from Kamwokya to Kitante Hill School every day. Those walks taught me endurance and to keep going even when the road was long and no one was cheering me on.
Turning a customer into a patient

When you elevate the patient experience, you elevate your own work experience too.
Poll: Should Canada allow advanced requests for MAiD?

See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll.
Misinformation and disinformation

Fact check, debunk and uncover the truth. We need honesty back in the medical mainstream.
The shrinkflation of family medicine

Unsustainable clinic economics are forcing FPs to abandon comprehensive care, shifting the burden to loaded ERs and specialist queues.
The hidden cost of targeted surgical funding

How ‘priority’ Ontario ministry mandates for high-profile procedures are cannibalizing OR time, stranding critical patients and threatening the future of specialized care.
The neurosurgeon we could not keep

The slow leak: Why Canada keeps losing some of its brightest doctors.