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Pharmacare was discussed at the recent premiers’ meeting as Ottawa continues to explore bringing in a universal national drug program. Today in The Conversation Canada, Katherine Boothe of McMaster University picks apart a number of myths that have found their way into the public debate over the benefits and costs of pharmacare programs.
Many factors have an impact on the success or failure of business startups – perhaps none more important than the financing behind the new initiatives. Michael Armstrong and Tatyana Sokolyk of Brock University look at how new businesses fare depending on whether their financial backing comes from banks, personal capital or other sources.
Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient was recently awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize, meaning it was judged the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize. Jody Mason and Dessa Bayrock of Carleton University take a look at the lasting impact of Ondaatje’s 1992 novel on Can Lit.
And finally…. Lost in all the noise coming out of Donald Trump’s White House these days was a recent threat by the U.S. administration to bring in trade barriers against Ecuador if it didn’t withdraw a pro-breastfeeding resolution at the World Health Assembly. Canadian scholar Andrea Freeman of the University of Hawaii explains the Trump government’s stance in favour of the companies that make baby formula.
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A national pharmacare program may one day be a reality in Canada. Myths abound about how it would work and what the consequences would be for Canadians and pharmaceutical companies.
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Katherine Boothe, McMaster University
As Canadians consider possibilities for pharmacare reform in the coming months, they should have access to the best available evidence about how it might work in our country.
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Start-ups funded via business loans tend to outperform those using personal loans or having no loans at all.
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Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University; Tatyana Sokolyk, Brock University
Start-ups funded via business loans can outperform those using personal loans or only equity.
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In this 1999 photo, author Michael Ondaatje poses at Coach House Press in Toronto. Ondaatje recently won the Golden Man Booker prize for his critically acclaimed novel “The English Patient.”
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Jody Mason, Carleton University; Dessa Bayrock, Carleton University
The meanings of Ondaatje's Golden Man Booker win is complicated and demonstrates the contradictions of literary value. Literary prizes permit us to imagine that literature is more than a commodity.
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The formula industry has responded to the decline in sales to white women at home by ramping up its marketing to Black and brown women overseas.
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Andrea Freeman, University of Hawaii
American support of the formula industry comes at the cost of the health and lives of Black and brown babies, at home and abroad.
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Health + Medicine
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Linda-Gail Bekker, University of Cape Town
The HIV epidemic is far from over and it's not time to disengage, says International Aids Society President Linda-Gail Bekker.
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Politics
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Brian Taylor, Syracuse University
When Putin looks in the mirror, what does he see? Not an aggressor as so many are depicting him in the West, but rather a defender of a wounded and misunderstood nation.
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