Topic: COVID-19 pandemic

Lessons from long-term care can inform innovation across Canada’s healthcare system

Lessons learned in the long-term healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic — including rapid innovation, sharing knowledge and partnership — can be applied to improve health systems across Canada and meet the growing need for safe, high-quality care for older adults, say Health Excellence Canada’s Jennifer Zelmer, president and CEO, and Tanya MacDonald, director of innovations and strategic development, in an op-ed.

Opinion Leader: Federal government must provide predictable funding for health research

The federal government needs to make it an urgent priority to provide increased and predictable funding for health and biosciences research, or risk losing the nation’s health research workforce to competing countries like the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, says Paul-Émile Cloutier, president and CEO of HealthCareCAN, in an op-ed.

How Canada can upskill its workforce after the COVID-19 pandemic

The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has created the perfect conditions to consider new, innovative approaches to rapidly upskill and redeploy domestic talent, say AJ Tibando and Arvind Gupta, the executive director and the CEO of Palette Skills, respectively, in an opinion piece.

To shift to a circular economy, we need to harness local expertise on plastics

Building a circular economy for plastics in Canada will take smart solutions, says Christina Seidel, executive director of the Recycling Council of Alberta and co-chair of the Plastics Alliance of Alberta, in an op-ed. These include locally driven initiatives, collaboration across sectors and organizations, research investment and innovation to eliminate unnecessary plastics and reduce plastic waste.