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1. Political turmoil in U.S. turns spotlight on Canadian health care

   Canadians frequently, and with some justification, believe their American neighbours are ignorant, even indifferent, to political and social developments north of the border. A clichéd characterization is that the surest way to get a ...

2. William Watson: You can’t always get what you want—so sad!

   I caught part of President Donald Trump’s Tennessee speech this week on the president’s favourite channel, CNN. These days his rallies open with “Hail to the Chief” but they still close—this week’s one in Nashville did, at least—with the ...

3. Putting Trump's views on Canadian health care to the test

   Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, it’s worth revisiting the evolution of his views on Canada’s health-care system. Although Mr. Trump started his campaign by stating that “[a]s far as single payer, it works in Canada,”- ...

4. Single-payer health care and presidential politics

   A new taxpayer-financed public health system that guarantees coverage for everyone will be voted upon by registered voters in Colorado in November 2016. An initial proposal garnered the 100,000 signatures needed for it to be voted upon ...

5. The reality of U.S. and Canadian health-care spending

   Health-care spending accounts for a high share of Gross Domestic Product in the United States, relative to Canada. In 2013, U.S. health-care spending accounted for 17.1 per cent of GDP, versus just 10.7 per cent in Canada, according to ...