Scrapping Canada’s Homophobic Blood Donation Ban
Writer Jordan deWever explores the slow process in enabling MSM to donate blood in Canada.
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Eugene Jeoung
- Feb 10, 2022
- 6 min
Safe Supply Is A Controversial Policy, But It's Ultimately A Good One
An article explaining why providing a safe supply of illicit drugs can be a tool for reducing the harms associated with drug use.
Toni Steele
- Jan 26, 2022
- 4 min
Urban Planning and Health are Inseparable: Here’s Why
Writer Toni Steele examines the connection between our living environment and our health.
Emily Wesseling
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
Reputation versus Reality: Canada, Sterilization, and Indigenous Women’s Health
A piece discussing the forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada.
Rayyan Esmail
- Nov 18, 2021
- 4 min
Fourth Wave Crises in the Prairies: The Forgotten Federal Failure
Rayyan Esmail considers the federal government’s responsibility for the COVID-19 fourth wave crises in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Teaghan Haysom
- Nov 17, 2021
- 4 min
Critical Policy Change Needed for Alberta’s Safe Injection Site Regulations
Opinion piece about the restrictive safe injection site policy recently put in place in Alberta, and how this policy will affect the opioid.
Benjamin Beiles
- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
The Labour Crisis Behind Quebec’s Vaccine Mandate Debacle
Years of mistreatment and limited immigration left Quebec’s healthcare system vulnerable to a crisis. That crisis is here.
Rayyan Esmail
- Jul 15, 2021
- 5 min
The Past, Present, and Future of the Covid Sports Bubble
Rayyan Esmail explores how Covid bubbles allowed for the safe return of sports and what they’ve taught us for the future the Olympic Games.
Chanel Best
- Jul 14, 2021
- 6 min
Enforcing COVID-19 vaccines is the only way to Combat Hesitancy
Chanel explores historical and contemporary responses to vaccine hesitancy, particularly responses in the form of mandatory vaccine policies
Sahaana Ranganathan
- Jul 6, 2021
- 5 min
Influencing Trust: The Role of Para-social Relationships and Misinformation
This article explores the role of para-social relationships and the spread misinformation on the COVID-19 vaccine
Katso Ramodimoosi
- Jun 15, 2021
- 7 min
Conservative Rhetoric and the Prisoner Vaccine Dilemma
An opinion piece responding to the Conservative reaction to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable prisoners in federal prisons
Chanel Best
- Jun 9, 2021
- 6 min
The Problems with Ontario's Vaccine Rollout
Author Chanel Best examines the failures of the Ontario government to administer vaccines to those most at risk of contracting COVID-19.
Rayyan Esmail
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
Death, Taxes, and Obamacare
Rayyan Esmail discusses the fate of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in the face of recent challenges in the Supreme Court.
Pablo Mhanna-Sandoval
- Apr 11, 2021
- 5 min
A Global Meat Tax: The future of Pandemic Prevention
Author Pablo Mhanna-Sandoval analyses the future of pandemic prevention through the implementation of a global meat tax.
Charlotte Mackenzie
- Mar 23, 2021
- 5 min
Canada Needs to Take Action Against Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Health Care System
Charlotte Mackenzie explores the need for Canada to invest more heavily in stopping anti-Indigenous racism in the health care system.
Claire Borgaonkar
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
COVID-19 Is the Perfect Opportunity to Introduce a National School Meal Program
Opinion by Claire Borgaonkar One of the most significant secondary public health crises to emerge in Canada as a result of the ongoing...
Alicia Gibson
- Feb 23, 2021
- 5 min
Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities are Failing Residents
The pandemic has shown how LTC homes have failed their residents. Alicia explores the military's report into LTCs to explore the problem.
Hibagh Ahmed
- Dec 2, 2020
- 5 min
A Black Woman's Body has Saved Millions of Lives, But You've Probably Never Heard Her Name
For over seven decades, scientific advancements has happened with the use of human cells - in particular the HeLa cells.
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