<time datetime="2019-09-05T00:01:00-04:00">September 5, 2019</time>

The Ontario government should expand and strengthen compensation reform for primary care doctors as it creates new Ontario Health Teams to better coordinate healthcare services, argues a new C.D.…

<time datetime="2019-06-06T00:01:00-04:00">June 6, 2019</time>

Universal pharmacare coverage for Canadians is within reach, based on cost estimates in a new C.D. Howe Institute study. In “Filling the Gaps: A Prescription for Universal Pharmacare,” authors…

<time datetime="2019-04-30T00:00:05-04:00">April 30, 2019</time>

Growth in healthcare spending by provinces and territories has been accelerating over the last four years as governments continue to overshoot their budget targets, says a report from the C.D.…

<time datetime="2019-04-16T00:00:05-04:00">April 16, 2019</time>

Alternative medicines need risk-based regulation according to a newly released report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Regulating Alternative Medicines: Disorder in the Borderlands” authors…

<time datetime="2019-02-14T00:00:05-05:00">February 14, 2019</time>

Misuse of laboratory testing in Canada is costly and potentially harmful, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “What the Doctor Ordered: Improving the Use and Value of…

<time datetime="2018-06-05T00:00:01-04:00">June 5, 2018</time>

Drug shortages in Canada are a problem in need of immediate solutions, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Assessing Canada’s Drug Shortage Problem” – one of the few…

Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair, David Walker, David Jones and Philipp Gladkov  To: Canada’s Premiers Date: September 29, 2023 Re: Statistics Canada identifies deficiencies in…
Intelligence Memos
From: Chris Bonnett To: Pharmacare Watchers Date: September 17, 2023 Re: Two Options to Get Better Pharmacare Faster Nothing is more dangerous than an idea. Émile Chartier is…
Op-Ed
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea. Émile Chartier is credited with those words or similar, finishing with “…when it’s the only one we have.”  Canada has tried for nearly 80 years to…