May 12, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel deplores 'pay-or-die' U.S. health-care system, but Canada's is also lacking
Ed Finn
"If your baby doesn’t have to die, it shouldn't matter how much money you make," Jimmy Kimmel argued.
medical care
Dec 20, 2015
Privately sponsored refugees face gap in health-care services
Redeye
Government-sponsored refugees arriving in B.C. are taken to a special clinic for an initial health checkup. Privately sponsored refugees have to rely on their sponsors to find health care.
Apr 3, 2015
Christian doctors angry they can no longer abandon their patients
A Christian doctors' group is throwing a tantrum over a new requirement that Ontario physicians must refer patients appropriately when they refuse to provide a health-care service.
Mar 5, 2015
Canada made Deepan Budlakoti stateless. Now it is denying him health care.
Nikki Bozinoff
Ritika Goel
Marcella Jones
Faraz Vahid Shahid
Deepan Budlakoti is without health care due to his lack of citizenship and now joins the ranks of an estimated half a million people living in Canada without access to medical care.
Mar 19, 2013
Canadian doctors launch court challenge of cuts to refugee health care
Redeye
Last June, the federal government drastically cut health-care coverage for refugee claimants in Canada. Since then doctors have been unable to help hundreds of patients with treatable conditions.
