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  This week’s show is about affordable housing and homelessness in Ontario, the GTA, and across the country. The nation is currently in a housing crisis as the housing market lacks supply of social and affordable housing.  The costs of living in cities across Canada for shelter and basic necessities is steady increasing. Additionally,   […]

  This week’s show is the first episode of the Insight Series, a new BTH series where we discuss seveal different policy areas within the hour. 1) Health Innovation Follow-up: In the first episode of the season, BTH examined how innovation can help to improve supply management of hospitals and Canada’s health system. Medical error […]

In 1988, abortion was legalized in R. v Morgentaler, which said that the abortion provisions in place at the time were unconstitutional as they violated a woman’s right to security of person under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Currently, abortion is funded by the Canada Health Act, yet how provinces […]

  Performance of North American healthcare systems lag woefully behind other OECD countries. Patient safety is a particular challenge. Every year 70,000 Canadians experience preventable, serious injury while hospitalized and 23 000 of those individuals do not survive that injury. Furthermore, medical error is now the third leading cause of death in North America behind […]

Child Mortality is a core indicator for child health and well-being. The toll of children under the age of five over the past two decades is staggering: between 1990 and 2015, 236 million children worldwide died before their fifth birthday. In 2000, the world leaders agreed on one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as […]

Toronto has recently been named a ‘major hub’ for human trafficking within Canada. Of all police-reported cases nationwide, 65% occur in Ontario alone. According to a study conducted by the Alliance Against Modern Slavery in 2014, it was estimated that in Canada 71% of human trafficking cases involved domestic sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is defined […]

The Canadian criminal justice system continues to fail the many survivors of sexual assault. For survivors, the experience of seeking help from law enforcement and going to court often deepens their existing wounds and trauma. Despite increased attention, sexual assault conviction rates remain meagre: one in five reports of sexual assault are treated as baseless […]

Since the 45th president of the United States has taken office, there have been unprecedented executive orders, feuds with foreign leaders, and disagreements between the country’s executive and judicial branches. The controversial travel ban targeting 7 countries in North Africa and the Middle East, as well as Mr. Trump’s divisive rhetoric, has led to a […]

Food insecurity is a growing issue amongst communities, leaving many Canadians without access to nutritious, affordable, sufficient, and culturally acceptable food. Food insecurity is often linked to poverty, unemployment, education, hunger, as well as environmental pollution. In response, a strategic approach to food is needed to address these issues and an understanding of how the Municipal […]

Ontario is facing a spike in opioid related overdoses as a result of what many experts outline as an increase in opioid prescribing over the past few decades. Reports have stated that one in eight deaths of Ontarians between the ages of 25 and 34 is related to opioid use, and Toronto has seen a 77 percent increase […]