Category Public Health
For Profit Human Donor Milk in Canada?
Martha Paynter supports an altruistic model of human milk donation and calls for improved regulation of human milk donation to ensure equity of access, safer milk sharing, and guard against for-profit milk banking.
Pharmacare: Improving Access to Expensive Drugs
Marc-André Gagnon dispels misconceptions about the benefits of private health insurance plans and argues in favour of a universal model for pharmacare.
In Support of Breastfeeding
Martha Paynter supports the World Health Assembly’s resolution on breastfeeding and calls for grassroots action to improve education, care, support and pride related to breastfeeding.
Clean Needle Pilot Programs at 2 Federal Prisons
Chelsea Cox comments on the introduction of two clean needle exchange pilot programs in Canadian prisons.
Responding to the Opioid Epidemic
Matthew Herder considers possible regulatory responses to the opioid epidemic that aim to recover health care costs, compensate survivors, or prosecute pharmaceutical companies.
Impact Ethics 