Category Public Health
An Interview with Martha Paynter
On International Safe Abortion Day (September 28, 2026), Martha Paynter discusses her new book Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization.
Toward a Two-tiered Publicly Administered Healthcare System in Canada
Daryl Pullman proposes that it is time for more privately funded health care in Canada, as long as privately financed care is publicly administered.
Protecting Youth Autonomy in an Age of Misinformation
Hunain Fatima Khan shows that a balance is needed between regulating misinformation online for the benefit of young people, and facilitating their autonomy
Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: Disability
In an ongoing series of commentaries, Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie University to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.
When AI Rents Humans: A Warning for Healthcare
Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon warns that as artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin hiring humans for physical tasks, we must ensure this inversion of labour does not reduce health care to a series of gig-economy transactions directed by algorithms.
