Healthcare

How Canadian Governments Promote Online Sports Gambling

...But can't be bothered to control dangerous addictive platforms

Feb 15 • David Clinton

U.S. Taxpayers Spend Nearly Twice As Much as Canada on Healthcare (per Capita)

Sometimes simple narratives don’t quite match reality.

Dec 17, 2025 • David Clinton

Health Canada's Study on Heat-Related Deaths Is Good, but Misses the Point

Health Canada recently released a study on heat-related morbidity and mortality in Canada.

Nov 23, 2025 • David Clinton

Why Do Some Armed Forces Suffer More Suicides Than Others?

Any single suicide is an unspeakable tragedy.

Nov 9, 2025 • David Clinton

Decoding CAF’s Fitness Crisis: Insights from Reddit’s Frontlines

What are they saying inside the CAF

Sep 14, 2025 • David Clinton

Is Canada Wasting Millions on Redundant Health Studies?

Dr Adam Cifu - over at Sensible Medicine - recently listed ten health-related areas that require exactly zero new research projects.

Sep 11, 2025 • David Clinton

Charity Campaigns vs. Charity Donations

Over the past few years, I’ve had canvassers coming to my home in Toronto on behalf of a wide range of non-profits - including hospitals and mental…

Jul 13, 2025 • David Clinton

Cannabis Legalization Is Starting to Look Like a Really Dumb Idea

Back in March 2024, I wrote about some early indications that Canada’s legalization of cannabis was, on balance, causing more harm than good.

Jul 10, 2025 • David Clinton

Using Wastewater to Track Illegal Drug Usage

Statistics Canada has published an experimental dataset representing the controlled substances component of the Canadian Wastewater Survey.

Jul 6, 2025 • David Clinton

Vaccines: Assessing Canada's COVID Response

It’s been five years since COVID hit and one part of me wants to stuff it all in a closet somewhere and forget about it.

May 11, 2025 • David Clinton

What Comes After the End of Public Healthcare?

Or: how do we get there in one piece?

May 1, 2025 • David Clinton

Bad Research Still Costs Good Money

I have my opinions about which academic research is worth funding with public money and which isn’t.

Feb 23, 2025 • David Clinton

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