First Person

My family and I were denied housing, car rentals and even hotel reservations, all because we didn’t have a credit card.

I spent 21 years in Hamilton schools. Drastic budget cuts and a rise in violence caused me to leave that world for good.

Canadians are working while ill to avoid losing income. Instituting country-wide sick-leave policies is a healthier option.

“We could lose $40 million in revenue”

“At one point, I was regularly floating nearly $100,000 of monthly debt”

Cybersecurity boss Sami Khoury tells us how crime plays out in the Cyber Wild West

“I’ve played festivals and won Juno awards, but somehow I found myself living in my car”

Immunologist Dawn Bowdish tells us why measles cases are soaring, who’s at risk and how we can still stamp it out

B.C. rolled out the Longitudinal Family Physician payment model and gained 700 new family doctors

Bureaucratic barriers make housing inconvenient and expensive to build. If you get creative, it doesn’t have to be.

At the Edmonton migrant centre where I work, 100 people come through our doors every day. We can’t help them all.

I invented the world’s first brain chip. It can cure epilepsy, dementia, chronic pain and addiction—if Canada is ready to invest.