Posts Tagged ‘mental Health’
Feds revive bill to build digitally connected health data systems for patients, providers
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Canada’s health data system is “fragmented and siloed” and incomplete health records can compromise patient care and safety… If passed, the legislation would establish standards that companies developing electronic medical records must follow, allowing data to be shareable between health-care providers and across provinces and territories… “Canada’s diversity and single-payer model has created one of the most valuable health data sets on Earth,”
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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B.C. to end drug decriminalization project, after ‘challenging’ three-year-experiment
Friday, January 16th, 2026
The program was pitched with the goal to “reduce stigma and fear of criminal prosecution that prevents people from reaching out for help, including medical assistance.” But a furor ensued over claims that the program was encouraging public drug use in playgrounds and other inappropriate places… we continue… adding treatment and recovery beds… intervention and supports… harm reduction services and undertaking everything that we can to save lives,”
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Why Canada must transform its long-term care system
Thursday, December 25th, 2025
… inclusive, age-friendly, home-like settings not only give residents a greater sense of comfort, control and autonomy; they also also provide an environment for direct-care workers to thrive and do meaningful work that makes a difference in their lives and in the daily lives of those they care for… If Canada wants to ensure dignity in aging, it must treat care work as essential infrastructure.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, Seniors
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Donald Trump’s war on narcoterrorism is misguided: Cocaine is not the problem
Monday, December 22nd, 2025
The opioid problem is not an import… it is sustained by cheaper, and even more dangerous, synthetics prepared (often domestically) in illicit labs… It is traceable, in microeconomic terms, not to the abundant supply of illegal opioids, but to the widespread demand for them… A great many Americans feel hopeless. Their lives have been immiserated, socially and economically… Maybe they could… bolster the welfare state, or create jobs that lift people out of poverty?
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty
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Wait for core Ontario autism services tops five years: advocates
Friday, October 31st, 2025
Families starting to receive funding now to pay for core therapies including applied behaviour analysis, speech language pathology and occupational therapy are people who registered for the program five years ago… more than 84,000 children are registered in the Ontario Autism Program to seek autism services and 19,600 of them are receiving funding to access core services… Less than one quarter of children registered for the Ontario Autism Program have been given access to the therapy that they were promised
Tags: disabilities, Education, jurisdiction, mental Health
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As the family doctor and nursing shortage gets worse, here is an innovative solution that will help
Thursday, September 25th, 2025
The province’s use of electronic health records remains far behind its potential… Health-care shortages could kick‑start a revolution in patient care and give patients real‑time access to the medical services they need and the ability to arrange them with a few clicks. It would free family doctors to do the work only we can do… No Ontarian should have to risk missing a cancer diagnosis, waiting months for a vaccine or spending hours in an ER because the system is stuck in the past.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health
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When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden
Monday, September 15th, 2025
The mental-illness health epidemic is growing alongside a crisis of economy and political legitimacy in Western societies. The distress and insecurity produced becomes another source of profiteering in the marketized economy where personhood is socially produced through individualized consumption… this enables distraction from social causes of distress such as poverty, inadequate housing, social injustice, discrimination, exclusion, and chronic financial insecurity; alongside militarism, and appalling levels of violence inflicted by governments on global citizens they control (or try to control).
Tags: featured, housing, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Primary care in Canada is suffering and doctors want input on how to fix it
Monday, June 30th, 2025
OurCare — the largest public conversation about primary care in Canadian history. Over 16 months, nearly 10,000 people across the country shared their experiences and hopes for the future through a national survey, citizen panels and community around tables. Despite differences in geography, age, and background, people largely agreed on what needs to change… six statements make up the OurCare Standard — a bold, people-powered vision for what primary care in Canada should look like.
Tags: featured, Health, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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It’s time to talk about what COVID did to Toronto, and to us
Thursday, June 26th, 2025
The isolation, loss, distrust and disruption that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic continue to make their mark on us today… neither the heroism, collective sacrifice or loss, nor the mistakes… We can’t move forward without finding a way to talk about — and process — what went right, what went wrong and what we all suffered during COVID-19… There is still so much misinformation out there about what actually happened during the pandemic. We desperately need a collective airing of the facts.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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Six ways public health care makes our economy stronger
Thursday, June 26th, 2025
Prime Minister Carney has put attracting investment in Canada at the top of his agenda. The economists remind him that public health care is a major economic pillar, supporting employment, innovation, and fiscal efficiency, all of which contribute to Canada’s economic resilience amidst global uncertainties and trade pressures. Six ways Medicare makes our economy stronger:
Tags: economy, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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