Jane Philpott
Money won’t fix our health care
Jane Philpott: Politicians won’t move the needle on health care policy if they’re punished for it in the polls. Time to look elsewhere.
Canada counts its dead much too slowly
Jane Philpott: How many additional people died as an indirect result of the pandemic? It will be months before we know the answer, and that’s a problem.
A call to end racism in Canada’s health care systems
Jane Philpott: We don’t need more studies; we need action. We must seize this moment in history and act to prevent more senseless deaths.
‘Public officials should be obsessed with protecting the health workers who will keep people alive’
Jane Philpott: That means frontline workers having access to PPE, rapidly expanding the health workforce in creative ways, and the provinces and territories working together to produce consistent and timely data
Dispatches from the coronavirus front lines: ‘I am afraid of what lies ahead for humanity’
Jane Philpott describes her first few shifts working on the COVID-19 front lines at Markham Stouffville Hospital
The climate crisis is our biggest public health threat
Jane Philpott and Samantha Green: To tackle a global climate catastrophe, we should study how society has successfully faced other health crises
Decriminalization is not a radical solution to the opioid crisis. And it would work.
Jane Philpott: If you don’t already know someone who has lost a loved one because of an accidental opioid overdose, it’s only a matter of time until you will
Canada falls behind in health care technology
Jane Philpott and Onil Bhattacharyya: When we’re trying to cut down on the environmental costs of travel, Canada should be leading the world in offering remote health care
National pharmacare—the time is now
Jane Philpott and Danyaal Raza: Medicare effectively ends as soon as a patient receives a prescription
What I learned as a first-time cabinet minister
Jane Philpott: Ask intelligent questions and truly declare your mind and your opinion, as you swore you would do