It's Wednesday, which means it’s time for The Check-Up with Manotick-based family doctor Alykhan Abdulla. And in just a few weeks, we’ll be entering a new learning season, as parents all across Canada...

Ontario’s health-care system retains extraordinary potential. Realizing it will require abandoning outdated assumptions and committing to structural reform.

The Ford government says it has reached the halfway mark in clearing the province’s Health Care Connect waiting list. The waitlist is a government program that is designed to help Ontarians without a ...

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Canadian family medicine is standing on a knife’s edge. We, as family doctors, need to decide our future.

We can't police, punish or hospitalize our way out of crises rooted in homelessness and poverty, say Dr. Alykhan Abdulla and Stephen Bartolo

Choose leaders for what they can do, not where they come from. The right competencies will carry the profession – and the health system – forward.

This city will soon host the annual meeting of Ontario municipal leaders. Their united voice could send a powerful message to Doug Ford.

In medicine, service and skill are not opposing forces. They’re inseparable. One without the other leads to harm. Together, service and skills just might help us heal.

Our Canada Day celebration isn’t just in the fireworks; it’s in the quiet resilience of our people.

This isn’t fearmongering. The system is crumbling under chronic underinvestment, policy inertia and an unwillingness to face fiscal reality.

Medical associations, like the government itself, are being asked not just to manage systems but to transform them.

I'm a family physician. But outside the exam room, I see something spreading that medicine alone can’t fix: polarization.

While Ottawa only has two confirmed measles cases, the number in the province has risen to 1,243 cases since October. Parents in the City of Ottawa are raising concerns, especially when it comes to bo...

Patients are stressed in our over-burdened system. So are family physicians and their colleagues. I get this. But I don’t get the rudeness.

Yes, tariffs are a huge issue. But if Carney and Poilievre can discuss housing, crime and free park passes, there should be room for health.

Other health professionals can help fill gaps in primary care 'if only we let them.'

It’s time to stop treating the Canada Health Act as a symbol and start treating it as what it is: A tool that needs updating.

New Year's resolutions often collapse because we aim too big and forget to have fun. This time, let's keep it simple.

Like a green, scheming miser, the Grinch of health care descended upon family medicine, stealing its spirit one policy at a time.

It’s no secret that the health-care system can be frustrating, for patients and providers alike.