Medical care and social investments are not an either/or proposition.

Get Well Canada, well-being budgeting, and health-in-all-policies are converging to address the most critical factors shaping health are the economic, social and environmental conditions in which we live.

Research finds the ratio between health and social spending is key to understanding health outcomes.

Health inequality is a persistent problem—and it's directly tied to other forms of inequality.

Half of our health and well-being is based on social determinants of health

Building power to change social structures

Population health metrics are about more than just health care—they're about the society we live in.

More and more Canadians support governments prioritizing social metrics rather than just economic ones

The medical care system clearly needs government support to get it back to health

It’s time for governments to address policy that forces disabled people in residential institutions to live in misery

I see the failures of the privatized insurance system every day. We have a chance to start fixing it.

The federal government hasn’t fulfilled its promises on mental health. It should immediately scale up funding for peer support services

The outsized burden placed on continuing care workers by the pandemic has in many ways gotten heavier.

We need to do better at getting benefits to those who need them.

Investments in a clean economy, dental care, and a GST top-up stole the show; many other needed investments have gone missing.

Faced with a crisis in health care and underfunded schools, the government of Saskatchewan is using its huge surplus to pay down the deficit.