đĄ $370B Spent, But Can Canada Supercharge Its Health-Tech?
Your Weekly Dose of Health Insights â Because Your Health Isnât Just a Headline
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Happy Wednesday! Letâs kick things off with a virtual high-five for surviving another week of snowstorms and coffee shortages. đïžâ This edition of The Other Side of the Care is packed with spicy updates thatâll make you rethink everything from election drama to AI saving the day (or plotting world domination?). Shoutout to our new subscribersâwelcome to the crew! đ Weâre here to decode healthcareâs chaos, one meme-worthy headline at a time.
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In todayâs edition, weâre serving up:
đ„ Ontarioâs ERs vs. Tariff Tango
đ Canadaâs Superpower Quest
đż High Stakes: Cannabis Risks
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News that Impacts You!
đ„ Ontarioâs ERs vs. Tariff Tango
Ontarioâs election heats up as leaders clash over healthcare vs. tariffs. NDPâs Marit Stiles vows to hire 15K nurses, while Ford fights U.S. steel tariffs. ERs are closing, nurses are burning out, and voters want action, not ads. Imagine waiting 10 hours in a hallwayânow add a tariff debate. Yikes.
Should leaders prioritize votes or ventilators?
đ Canadaâs Superpower Quest
Canadaâs health system spends $370B/year but ranks below peers. Solution? Grow homegrown health-tech giants instead of exporting geniuses (looking at you, insulin inventors). Novo Nordisk (Danish) made billions from a Canadian discovery. Ouch.
Can Canada turn labs into economic engines?
đż High Stakes: Cannabis Risks
Two Canadian studies link cannabis dependence to triple the death risk, including suicide and lung cancer. Modern weedâs potency isnât your grandmaâs joint. A daily user faces risks akin to heavy drinking.
Time to rethink âharmlessâ stoner culture?
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