Category Law & Policy
The Cost of Paying for Performance
Katharine Browne raises doubts about the motivational model upon which pay for performance (P4P) schemes are built. Physicians are not selfish knaves.
Evidence Not Ideology: A Critical Assessment of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act
Former sex worker Kerry Porth and policy expert Genevieve Fuji Johnson say that Bill C-36, far from protecting sex workers and communities, will create more harm.
Silencing Ethics at CIHR
Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie challenge the recent reply from Minister Ambrose to a question on the Order Paper about ethics at CIHR.
The Opacity of Bill C-17’s Transparency Amendments
Matthew Herder says it is unclear whether the ‘Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa’s Law)’ will provide greater transparency in Canadian drug regulation.
Socializing Access to Fertility Treatments in Quebec?
Audrey L’Espérance interrogates medical and social understandings of infertility and access to reproductive technologies in the report of the Commissaire à la Santé et au Bien-Être in Quebec.
Impact Ethics 