Welcome to the Evidence Network of Canadian Health Policy

The Evidence Network of Canadian Health Policy, commonly known as EvidenceNetwork.ca is a non-partisan web-based project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Manitoba Health Research Council to make the latest evidence on controversial health policy issues available to the media.  This site links journalists with health policy experts to provide access to credible, evidence-based information.

Our Commentaries

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Download our free ebook! Canadian Health Policy in the News: Why Evidence Matters
By Noralou Roos, Sharon Manson Singer, Kathleen O’Grady, Camilla Tapp and Shannon Turczak
Canadian Health Policy in the News is a compendium of the commentaries (or OpEds) we have published in major newspapers across the country since the birth of EvidenceNetwork.ca in April 2011 up to October 2012.
Despair
How the federal government plans to end homelessness
By Vicky Stergiopoulos and Sam Tsemberis
Something largely overlooked by wide media coverage of the federal government’s Economic Action Plan 2013 was that it marked a significant change in the way we will tackle homelessness in this country.
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Toxic information
By Alan Cassels
It sometimes takes a long time to discover environmental hazards, and even longer to do something about them, once discovered.

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