As Canada’s society ages, more personal care and health support will be needed for people who, either as a consequence of disability or aging, require assistance to function independently. As this happens, policymakers face the daunting challenge of balancing the fiscal burden on taxpayers...

Ensuring that all members of the community, including the poor, have access to urgently needed healthcare is a central objective of Canadian social policy. Yet, in the current system, there are many population groups in which individuals have difficulty accessing even urgently needed dental...

Nova Scotia faces a $89 billion fiscal burden – the future tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze, says a report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Delivering Healthcare to an Aging...