Reading Time: 4 minutes Members of the public can help by supporting women’s right to breastfeed in public and demanding baby-friendly standards in health-care settings
Tag: University of Calgary
Parliament debating legislation to curb genetic discrimination
Reading Time: 3 minutes While genome analysis can alter the very practice of medicine, there is a fear it can be used to discriminate on the ground of genetic characteristics
Closing the 17-year gap between research and patient care
Reading Time: 4 minutes That’s the time it takes for practitioners to apply the results of research by health scientists that could help in patient care
When inequality in Canada goes up, child well-being goes down
Reading Time: 4 minutes Record numbers of children in Canada are living in poverty in spite of an all-party resolution in 1989 to end child poverty by the year 2000
Is Trudeau’s warranty running out?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The botched electoral reform initiative and the access-for-cash mess highlight a growing disconnect between the voters and the Liberals
Indigenous people are not the ‘ghosts of history’
Reading Time: 4 minutes By honouring treaties and the rights they bestow, Canada can go a long way toward restoring pride, respect and dignity to indigenous peoples
HPV vaccine must be given to all Canadian children
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recent statistics show an alarming increase in mouth and throat cancers caused by the human papillomavirus, especially among men
University of Calgary blind to conflict of interest
Reading Time: 3 minutes Everything the administration has done has been damage control
Anti-terrorism Act aimed squarely at violent Islamic jihadi terrorists
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bill C-51 explicitly states that it is not concerned with “lawful advocacy, protest, dissent, and artistic expression”
Canadians now have the human right to be killed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Supreme Court’s assisted-suicide decision a perversion of human rights