After an Ontario court approved a $32.5 billion big tobacco settlement, one question looms large – why has Ontario been ...

We are told health care in Canada is equal for everyone. But it is not. What you get depends on where you live.

Despite claims from U.S. officials like RFK Jr., studies have found no relationship between IQ and community water ...

As the Canadian government awaits a court ruling on its ban on single-use plastics, Kenya offers a real-life illustration of ...

The topic of disability is taught, albeit in a limited way, in our medical schools. Yet, one essential element remains ...

The health-care community is actively involved in advocacy in a number of areas, including physical activity, climate change and equity. However, it is strangely silent when it comes to transportation ...

That is the number of potential peer-reviewers I had to approach for a paper in a top mental health and addiction journal I ...

I can recall clearly the first day that each of my three children walked to and from school on their own. I worried about whether they would get there without mishap. But I took for granted that, once ...

“It’s kind of like in Harry Potter, when the dementors come and they suck away all of your energy,” says Kathleen Dennis, a former Toronto health-care worker living with a condition called myalgic ...

Our information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine. Fringe positions that have already been studied and shown to be wrong are legitimized, given a huge profile and presented as ...

Canada’s new Divorce Act, adding an expansive definition of family violence and abuse, will not do enough to reform the systemic culture in family court that routinely ignores family violence, experts ...

A series of opinions published on healthydebate.ca assert that the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (Task Force) is flawed, and should be disbanded or reformed to include experts on each ...