While Canadians have long held equal access to health care based on need, rather than ability to pay, as a core social value, successive Canadian governments have failed to ensure timely access to adequate health care for all. As a result, access to health care is increasingly being pursued as a...

Between 1969 and 1972, the Le Dain Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medicinal Use of Drugs undertook a comprehensive study of Canadian drug laws, exposing their negative effects and recommending that Canada move away from criminalizing people who use drugs. Fifty years later, drug prohibition...