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Do Politics and Healthcare Intersect in 2026?

Healthcare Policy

Healthcare is a high-priority political issue. Politicians pay attention to what is important to Canadians. Should Canadians trust that the prime minister's government will follow through on its political commitment to build a stronger healthcare system in provinces and territories?

Healthcare Doesn’t Have a Strategy Problem. It Has a Capacity-to-Think Problem

Insights

Across healthcare, a quiet but consequential shift is underway. Leaders are losing not only the time, but the uninterrupted attention required for reflection, foresight and system design. What appears to be a problem of individual productivity is, in reality, a problem of organizational design.

Summary Report from the 2025 National Cancer Summit

Insights

While cancer mortality rates have improved over recent decades due to advances in prevention and treatment, the future of oncology will require system redesign to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies.

One Session, Infinite Support: A Youth Perspective on Mental Health Research

Insights

My name is Simran, and I am a Grade 12 Student and co-applicant on a research project that explores how artificial intelligence can enhance youth mental health support. Growing up during a global pandemic I have witnessed how these influences have reshaped how my generation experiences stress, anxiety, and access to support.

From ‘Medical Home’ to ‘Medical Neighbourhood’: A Roadmap for Modernization

Insights

Primary care is the backbone of our health system. It’s why provinces are investing in new models, recruiting and training more clinicians and trying to ensure that every patient has a family doctor.

Spotlight

April 06, 2026

Healthcare Papers presents Tipping the Balance Toward Positive Futures for Patients: AI in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence can improve or worsen health and healthcare. This commentary shares four principles—recognizing AI’s unique characteristics, right-sizing, co-design, and equity-focus—to tip the balance toward positive futures. By Jennifer Zelmer and Annette MacKinnon.

Events

Tuesday, May 05, 2026 - Toronto, Ontario Longwoods Breakfast Series

From Promise to Practice: Scaling AI in Healthcare

Karli Farrow, President and CEO, Trillium Health Partners and Tomi Poutanen, CEO, Signal 1

Jul 2009 Healthcare Quarterly

TOCSIN: A Proposed Dashboard of Indicators to Control Healthcare-Associated Infections

Nov 2008 Nursing Leadership

A Case Study: The Initiative to Improve RN Scheduling at Hamilton Health Sciences

May 2010 Nursing Leadership

Growing Practice Specialists in Mental Health: Addressing Stigma and Recruitment with a Nursing Residency Program

Mar 2008 Home and Community Care Digest

My Vision Impairment is Hurting People I Love

Jan 2007 HealthcarePapers

Healthy Workplaces and Teamwork for Healthcare Workers Need Public Engagement

Jan 2009 Healthcare Policy

Inter-facility Patient Transfers in Ontario: Do You Know What Your Local Ambulance Is Being Used For?

Jan 2011 Insights

The TSX Gives a Short Course in Health Economics: It's the Prices, Stupid!

Jun 2005 Healthcare Quarterly

Acute Care Hospital Strategic Priorities: Perceptions of Challenges, Control, Competition and Collaboration in Ontario's Evolving Healthcare System

Sep 2010 Insights

Ontario Generic Drug Wars, Part 1: How It All Began

Jan 2011 Insights

Book Review: Lessons Learned In Changing Healthcare And How We Learn Them

Jun 2013 Insights

Will Calling Obesity a Disease Cause Harm?

Apr 2014 Insights

Time for a National Strategy for Patient Safety

Sep 2019 Nursing Leadership

Case Study: Using Electronic Medication Administration Record to Enhance Medication Safety and Improve Efficiency in Long-Term Care Facilities

Apr 2014 Nursing Leadership

The Value of Registered Nurses in Collaborative Family Practice: Enhancing Primary Healthcare in Canada

Nov 2024 Healthcare Quarterly

The Siren Call for Business Model Innovation in Healthcare

Nov 2012 Healthcare Quarterly

Stronger Policy through Evidence

Sep 2012 Nursing Leadership

Twenty Years of donnerwheeler: What We've Learned

Apr 2020 Insights

The Light at the End of the COVID-19 Tunnel

Feb 2011 Healthcare Policy

Predictors of Home Care Expenditures and Death at Home for Cancer Patients in an Integrated Comprehensive Palliative Home Care Pilot Program

Jun 2009 Healthcare Quarterly

Opinion: Pay for Performance: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place?

News

Apr 17, 2026 Health & Healthcare News

Mental healthcare in Canada has a gap – this new virtual clinic in Ontario is trying to fix it

2026-04-17 from nowtoronto.com A new Ontario-based virtual counselling practice is addressing barriers in mental health care for 2SLGBTQ+ and BIPOC Canadians by offering affirming, identity-informed [...]

Apr 17, 2026 Health & Healthcare News

Universal healthcare in name only

2026-04-17 from canadianaffairs.news Both Canada and Australia have universal health-care systems. However, mental health care is not fully covered in either. Sources describe access to mental healt [...]

Apr 17, 2026 Health & Healthcare News

‘Mystery disease’ with varied symptoms kills 5, leaves 35 ill

2026-04-17 from ctvnews.ca They experienced fever, vomiting, bloody urine, jaundice and anemia, and so far, no one knows why. Five people have died in Burundi and another 35 fell ill, but exact [...]

Editor's Picks

Healthcare Quarterly

A Framework for Sensemaking and Advancing the Continuum of Integrated Care

Integration of health and social care is increasingly central to improving outcomes, experience and sustainability; however, integrated care is not a single construct. This article presents a novel framework to categorize and conceptualize different approaches to integrated care, illustrating variations in attributes, context, complexity and impact. Drawing on international literature, three approaches to integration – condition-based, multi-condition and population-based – are exami [...]