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Current Affairs

Alberta Is Struggling to Keep Its Nurses and Teachers

June 9, 2025June 12, 2025 - by Kena Shah

Internal documents show the province tried to make workers “feel good about their service.” They don’t

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Health

Faced with Sky-High IVF Costs, Couples Look Abroad to Start Families

April 18, 2025May 15, 2025 - by Ashley Perl

The growing business of “eggs-pat” tourism

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Health

The Trade War Poses a Threat to Canadian Health Care

February 26, 2025April 9, 2025 - by Carine Abouseif

Our medical system relies on US products. We need to make more life-saving drugs and devices at home

Health

I Knew My Pregnancy Was Over. Doctors Insisted Otherwise

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 - by Fawn Parker

New Brunswick health care turned my miscarriage into a medical crisis

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Health / May 2022

How Two Doctors Are Hacking the Transplant System

April 25, 2022May 9, 2022 - by Karin Olafson

What if there were a better way to get life-saving organs to people who need them?

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Seeding Innovation in Brain Research

January 11, 2022March 25, 2022 - by Glynis Ratcliffe

How Brain Canada is offering early-career scientists an opportunity to think outside the box

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Podcasts

Surrendering to our Discomfort

November 17, 2021December 15, 2021 - by Mark Henick

S3E10 of The Conversation Piece Podcast

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December 2021 / Health

Virtual Health: Pandemic Band-Aid or Opportunity for Better Care?

November 16, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Carine Abouseif

COVID-19 forced a massive shift to phone and online consultations. With new freedoms come new frustrations

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Health

Design for Survival: How to Build a Better Trauma Bay

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 - by Lauren McGill

In the high-pressure world of emergency medicine, a Toronto hospital finds new ways to save lives

Black and white photo of Steve Shih over a template of The Conversation Piece podcast featuring a mic and outlines of other mics.

Podcasts

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 6, 2021December 15, 2021 - by Steve Shih

S3E7 of The Conversation Piece Podcast

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Alberta Is Struggling to Keep Its Nurses and Teachers

Faced with Sky-High IVF Costs, Couples Look Abroad to Start Families

The Trade War Poses a Threat to Canadian Health Care

How Two Doctors Are Hacking the Transplant System

Surrendering to our Discomfort

Virtual Health: Pandemic Band-Aid or Opportunity for Better Care?

Design for Survival: How to Build a Better Trauma Bay

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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