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What if you live a long life, not your best life?
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Think Upstream Radio: Why early learning investments matter
Eight years ago I partnered with several foundations to cross the country asking Canadians, via focus groups facilitated by Environics Research, what they think about…
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Time to shift the bell curve toward health
At each end of the curve are the small number of people who are either extremely tall or short. This pattern is found throughout nature…
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Measuring success in the federal budget
Everyone in this country probably knows what the latest federal budget is predicted to do to the public debt and deficit. You’ve heard about it,…
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Public health beyond the anthropocene
Our health outcomes depend on seeing the connection between Canadians and the land.
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Honk if you’re stuck and stressed
It’s like this every weekday morning on my street. In my mind’s eye I imagine it’s the same person, each and every morning, who has…
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The quest for universal pharmacare
It looks like the snake oil salesman is about to gallop away with a tidy pharmaceutical profit once again.
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Four of top 10 global health threats are environmental
The first threat is air pollution and climate change. The WHO reports that nine out of ten people around the world breathe polluted air every…
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The opioid crisis and mental suffering
“Nobody’s saying that every traumatized person becomes addicted. I’m saying that every addicted person was traumatized.” – Gabor Maté
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2019: Trends to watch this year
Income inequality isn’t resolving itself in Canada. On the first working day of this year the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released its annual…
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Think Upstream Radio: When the big employer ghosts a town – now what?
“We can’t be waiting with bated breath for the big company to say we will save you,” says Pearson. “As cities are abandoned, decline, and…
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How much do lifestyle choices matter for health?
“With all this attention to the so-called lifestyle approach, all it really does is actually increase health inequalities, because the people that are in the…
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