Canada’s hospitals are increasingly overburdened, with too many patients and too few rooms and staff to keep up with demand. Similar challenges are being faced in the long-term care (LTC) system. Could a different approach to LTC help to tackle both problems?
As the world meets in Dubai for the COP28 climate conference, it’s become increasingly unclear if Canada will be able to achieve its own emission reduction targets. The national consensus around the carbon tax is collapsing.
On November 26, the Canadian Press reported that Justice Minister Arif Virani was considering options for the criminalization of residential school denialism, a move first looked into by his predecessor, David Lametti.
In a recent Hub Dialogues, The Hub’s editor-at-large, Sean Speer, spoke with Former Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron. Their discussion touched on a range of topics related to the current state of the news industry, including how journalism can adapt and thrive in the digital age. Here are three key insights from their conversation.
Jennifer Zwicker, the director of social policy and health and associate professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, says Canadian health care needs a centralized, digital, interprovincial system that processes data across Canada and coordinates referrals to specialists.
On November 29, the federal government announced an agreement with Google that will see the Big Tech firm make annual payments of $100 million to Canadian news organizations to support the production of journalistic content.
On Wednesday, the Trudeau government announced that it had reached an agreement with Google that would see the tech giant pay $100 million annually to Canadian news outlets under the Online News Act.
The Hub‘s executive director Rudyard Griffiths recently spoke with leading author, journalist, and Hub contributor David Frum at the Gardiner Museum on a range of pressing topics, including the domestic dynamics of the Israel-Hamas conflict since the October 7th terrorist attacks and how they have shaken Canadian identity.
In a submission for the 2023 Hunter Prize for Public Policy, Ayeshah Haque, a midwife and researcher, suggests that the creation of mobile, integrated health-care teams capable of conducting home visits could help free up space in hospitals and improve the work-life balance of health-care workers.
Despite one of the largest military mobilizations in the country’s history, experts are skeptical about whether Israel can fully eradicate Hamas. Some also doubt that the predicted regional escalation will come to pass.
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