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1. Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways

   According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year. ...

2. New Brunswick health-care wait times among longest in Canada

   Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, December 16, 2020 Here’s a sobering thought. Before, during and most likely after the COVID pandemic, New Brunswickers will likely continue to face long wait times for medically necessary health-care procedures. ...

3. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

   Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed ...

4. McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog

   Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, September 19, 2020 As uncertainty over COVID continues, no one knows when things will be “normal” again. For patients in Nova Scotia, however, a return to normalcy will mean a return to the same overburdened ...

5. The ‘other’ health-care crisis damaging our economy—every year

   Appeared in the National Post, May 9, 2020 The COVID pandemic has devastated Canada’s economy and the recovery will be long and uncertain. However, another health-care crisis has been hurting Canadians, and the country’s economic productivity, for years ...

6. Alberta should look abroad—and next door—for better ways to provide health care

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, February 15, 2019 Albertans, like Canadians more broadly, spend comparatively high amounts on health care but only receive modest performance from the system compared to other universal care countries. Thankfully, there’s much ...

7. Ontario no longer has shortest health-care wait times in Canada

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, December 5, 2018 Sadly, long wait times for medical treatment have defined the Canadian health-care system for many years. Long waits visit a wide range of harms upon Canadians including unnecessary pain and suffering, lost ...

8. Canada’s health-care wait times hit new record high, again

   Appeared in Maclean's, December 7, 2017 We finally did it last year. In 2016, we hit the 20-week mark for the average wait time for treatment by a specialist (across 12 medical specialities) after referral from a general practitioner. Canada’s ...