Opinion

Provinces smoothing the road for U.S. doctors to come to Canada but Ottawa must do more

Canadian provinces have supercharged their efforts to recruit U.S. health-care workers, taking advantage of the political tumult down south.

Beyond the signature: Is consent truly informed?

Moving forward, making informed consent truly informed – rooted in both equity and accessibility –  needs to be a priority, not just an ideal.

Healing the healers: Servant leadership and moral injury

In medicine, service and skill are not opposing forces. They’re inseparable. One without the other leads to harm. Together, service and skills just might help us heal.

Ontario is getting $7B from the tobacco settlement. Why the silence on where it’s going?

After an Ontario court approved a $32.5 billion big tobacco settlement, one question looms large – why has Ontario been silent on its plans for its share of this money?

Approved but denied: Canadians with neuromuscular diseases face unequal access to treatment

We are told health care in Canada is equal for everyone. But it is not. Particularly for patients with neuromuscular diseases, what you get depends on where you live.

Fluoride IQ studies relying on individual urine measures are worthless

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

Is peer-review dead? A scientist’s plea to fix a broken system

Peer-review may not be over, but the era of exploitative, opaque and corporatized gatekeeping should be.

Patients before paperwork: Leveraging AI as a tool in primary care

AI and NLP applications are promising adjunctive tools that will help reduce administrative burden and burnout and enhance delivery of patient-centered care for all Canadians.

Accessibility: The overlooked competency in medical school

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

‘Disability’ glaringly absent from federal cabinet portfolios

On May 13, Prime Minister Carney announced his new cabinet of 28 cabinet ministers and 10 secretaries of states, yet incredibly left Canadians with disabilities without any overt representation.

Immersive Virtual Reality is a valuable addition to medical training with the right planning

IVR, a type of simulation that uses virtual spaces and characters rather than physical and human resources, could be the future of medical training.

Contraception isn’t just her job

The current contraceptive landscape places a disproportionate amount of physical and mental burden for pregnancy prevention on women. But what about men?

Equity isn’t optional – it is essential to solving Canada’s cancer problem

Without addressing inequity, we will never be able to solve the cancer problem in Canada.

When care doesn’t translate

For South Asian communities, improved care means earlier screening, culturally relevant guidance and meaningful language access. Without these changes, we risk continuing a pattern of preventable harm.

The potluck cure: Sharing meals, swapping stories in the doctors’ lounge to ease burnout

We must remind ourselves that historically through food and drink, medical professionals had built-in ways to connect and get social support throughout our workday.

Better together: Where are the pharmacists in Ontario’s primary care plan?

We have said it before. We will say it again. Pharmacists in Ontario are well-prepared for an expanded role in our health-care system.

Competency-based leadership: A critical imperative for Canadian health care

Canada is in a moment that demands more – more wisdom, more rigor, more courage. Medical associations, like the government itself, are being asked not just to manage systems but to transform them.

How to keep pushing forward: Lessons learned as CMA president

"The CMA presidency has been one of the most challenging, and humbling, roles of my career, but also one of the most rewarding and inspiring. These lessons are a call to action."

‘This Will Make You a Better Doctor’

As medical trainees, we spend years learning to care for patients. But absolutely nothing prepared me to be a doctor better than being a patient.

Cannabis education missing in Canadian health care

The legalization of cannabis was a watershed moment for Canada’s health-care system – but legalization without education has left patients vulnerable to misinformation.