4. The Politics of Health

This report compiles key actions and measures implemented by the Public Health Agency of Canada to address the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses related lessons learned

We compare Canada with nine other countries to examine the growth of COVID-19 cases and the effectiveness of our response.

Canada handled the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and weathered the ensuing upheaval better than several other nations with comparable health-care and economic infrastructure, a new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests.

The role of environmental factors in autism spectrum disorder might be minimal, but we should try to figure out what they are.https://www.medscape.com/viewar...

An investigation by the Information Commissioner of Canada concludes the Harper government muzzled scientists.

The Conservative leader’s promise to cut “woke” funding to universities and research echoes the disaster unfolding in the U.S.

In the past few years, the federal government has cut funding to hundreds of renowned research institutes and programs. Ottawa has dismissed more than 2,000 ...

In the first few days of 2014, scientists, journalists, and environmentalists were horrified to discover that the Harper government had begun a process to close seven of the 11 of Canada's world-renowned Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries...

Science—and the culture of evidence and inquiry it supports—has a long relationship with democracy. Widely available facts have long served as a [...]

It wasn’t just climate research. Rock snot, sharks and polar bears: All were off-limits during the Harper administration

Misinformation, Covid-19

Public health authorities say the Covid-19 vaccines have saved lives, but a Canadian report shared across platforms estimates the shots have killed 17 million people globally. This is false; government agencies and independent experts worldwide told AFP the findings are flawed and that only a minuscule percentage of deaths among the vaccinated can be attributed to the jabs.

Here's what we know.

A Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania with ties to a racist former Trump official came under fire Tuesday for minimizing the more than 1000 deaths of children who died from COVID-19. “Many of these children had pre-existing – I’m sorry, had underlying medical conditions,” said Rep. Guy Reschenthaler on the House floor, “making them more vulnerable to […]

A clip of this disingenuous documentary is making the rounds.

The video has been viewed millions of times on YouTube via links that are replaced as quickly as the video-sharing service can remove them for violating its policy against "COVID-19 misinformation."

VAERS, a database of reports of vaccine side effects, is being abused by people trying to sow fear. It's not the first time.

Here we go again – bad published research tries to convince us that COVID-19 rates are unrelated to the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in several countries

The calculations in the study by researchers at The University of Ottawa were used to promote the idea that the COVID-19 vaccine is unsafe for use.

Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments

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Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.

We trust these sources to help us debunk the information we discover and interact with online. WHO | How to report misinformation online Ctrl-F | Find the Facts – Digital Media Literacy European…

We trust these sources, backed by Canadian and international experts in public health, to advise us on best practices to counter and control COVID-19. Health Canada | Approved COVID-19 Vaccines Public…

Want an inside scoop? My lovely wife, the doctor, says that about half of new admissions at the hospital are…drum roll please…Covid patients. Admissions. As in, people who’ve had medical emergencies…

When I look around the world today — and particularly at English speaking societies — entire nations seems to be having a kind of severe mental breakdown. America. Britain. Nation after nation is…

The health crisis will inevitably subside, but autocratic governments’ dangerous expansion of power may be one of the pandemic’s most enduring legacies.

Since Covid-19 vaccines became available, the gap in excess deaths between Republicans and Democrats has widened, according to a new study.