Live Healthy, Help Fight COVID
Government data suggests healthy people have a better chance of beating COVID and avoiding hospitalization than non-healthy people. Shouldn’t we be talking about healthy living more?
Government data suggests healthy people have a better chance of beating COVID and avoiding hospitalization than non-healthy people. Shouldn’t we be talking about healthy living more?
Contributor to Second Street.org, Paige MacPherson discusses what “learning pods” are, how they can help parents and other findings in her new policy brief on K-12 education.
We have an update to our report that examined when was the last time that governments reduced their employees’ pay.
We gathered data on when the last time was that government employees took a pay cut. The data might surprise you!
Sometimes “red tape” can seem a bit vague so we produced a short clip in Winnipeg that shows a few examples from one part of the city.
You know whose universal health care system often ranks higher than Canada’s? Australia’s medicare system. We spoke with a public policy expert from down under to discuss how their system works.
Since COVID-19 emerged in Canada, governments have opened up more opportunities for patients to videoconference with their doctors or speak with them on the phone. Today we spoke with Maurice and Ilene Thevenot, two senior citizens who live two hours south west of Winnipeg, about their experience.
At SecondStreet.org we recently interviewed our student interns, Catherine Shvets and Gage Haubrich, about hospital cafeterias losing millions of dollars.
We recently spoke with Dr. Lester Liao from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to get his take on video conferencing. Dr. Lester Liao explains through his professional experience the pros of this developing technology, as well as the shortfalls.
Dr. Susan Piccinin has been a practicing physician in Hamilton, Ontario for 30 years. We spoke with her to get her professional opinion on waiting lists in Canada, private health care and Canada’s aging population.
International studies routinely show Australia’s health care system outperforms Canada and the United States. At SecondStreet.org we took a look at what Australia is doing differently.
All politics aside, this could be really good news for patients. New Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has committed to health reform if he is elected prime minister.