By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada’s provincial and federal leaders were slated to meet on Tuesday in an attempt to agree upon potential solutions to bolster the country’s stretched public healthcare system. Long a source of pride, Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system has been strained to the breaking point due to factors including the pandemic and staffing shortages.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

A Canadian experiment to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs could reduce stigma and police run-ins for addicts but does little to tackle a bigger problem of overdose deaths from drugs adulterated with lethal ingredients.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – The Globe and Mail

I’m okay. You’re okay. It’s okay not to be okay.

If you have a phone or an internet connection, you’ve seen the hashtags.

So, fine. Let’s talk.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada’s federal government on Thursday introduced a law that would exclude people suffering solely from mental illness from pursuing assisted death for an additional year.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada’s Supreme Court found one mandatory minimum sentence for a firearm offence unconstitutional and upheld two others in a pair of decisions published on Friday.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Ontario’s plan to rely more on private operators for public health services has some doctors and patient advocates worried it could put patients at risk of exploitation and steal workers away from a public system facing a staffing shortage.

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ismail Shakil – Reuters

Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, plans to significantly expand its use of private providers to perform public health services, the premier said on Monday, in a bid to deal with backlogs and delays in a healthcare system strained by the coronavirus pandemic.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

The Canadian government wants to push back a planned expansion of its assisted death law to include people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, the justice minister said on Thursday.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada’s defence minister on Tuesday agreed to remove the military from investigating and prosecuting alleged sexual offences in the armed forces to ensure trust in the probes, one of several recommendations made in an independent report this year.

Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada is preparing to expand its medically assisted death framework to become one of the broadest in the world, a change some want to delay due to concerns vulnerable people have easier access to death than to a life without suffering.