💡 $370B Spent, But Can Canada Supercharge Its Health-Tech?
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Happy Wednesday! Let’s kick things off with a virtual high-five for surviving another week of snowstorms and coffee shortages. 🏔️☕ This edition of The Other Side of the Care is packed with spicy updates that’ll make you rethink everything from election drama to AI saving the day (or plotting world domination?). Shoutout to our new subscribers—welcome to the crew! 🎉 We’re here to decode healthcare’s chaos, one meme-worthy headline at a time.
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In today’s edition, we’re serving up:
🏥 Ontario’s ERs vs. Tariff Tango
🚀 Canada’s Superpower Quest
🌿 High Stakes: Cannabis Risks
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🏥 Ontario’s ERs vs. Tariff Tango
Ontario’s election heats up as leaders clash over healthcare vs. tariffs. NDP’s 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 hallway—now add a tariff debate. Yikes.
Should leaders prioritize votes or ventilators?
🚀 Canada’s Superpower Quest
Canada’s 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?
🌿 High Stakes: Cannabis Risks
Two Canadian studies link cannabis dependence to triple the death risk, including suicide and lung cancer. Modern weed’s potency isn’t your grandma’s joint. A daily user faces risks akin to heavy drinking.
Time to rethink “harmless” stoner culture?
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