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Episodes: 53
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: <1k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: Canada
YouTube: 2.5k subscribers
Instagram: 2.5k followers
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Avis Favaro - Host of the Canadian Health Information Podcast (CHIP). The description says she leads in-depth conversations about the health of Canadians and the performance of Canada’s health systems, featuring...
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Recent Guest Discussions
Cheryl Chui - Emergency Department Visit Volumes And System Pressures Shown In CIHI Data; Analytics Behind Patient Flow And Capacity Constraints
Dr. Fraser Mackay - Emergency Department Wait Times And Pressures Reflected In Canadian Institute For Health Information Data; Drivers Of The Crisis And Why Solutions Are Difficult
Dr. Joss Reimer - Public Health Leadership In The Context Of Misinformation; Burnout And Career Turning Points; Communication Shaped By Work Including The Manitoba Covid-19 Vaccine Taskforce
Lori Norris-Dudley - Staff Perspective On How POET Affected Residents’ Lives And End-of-life Outcomes
Lindsay Passfield - Staff Perspective On How POET Affected Residents’ Lives And End-of-life Outcomes
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Episodes
The Canary in the Coal Mine: Emergency Department Wait Times
June 25, 2026
New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows emergency departments are dealing with a record high number of visits, 16.1 million and climbing. And more numbers reveal the pressures that are leaving patients stuck in emergency departments for hours or days, putting them and health workers at risk. In this episode, host Avis Favaro discusses the picture the data paints — with Dr. Fraser Mackay, an emergency physician and member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Phys...
Dr. Reimer’s First Shift: Canada’s New Chief Public Health Officer
March 31, 2026
How do you safeguard Canada’s public health in an era of unprecedented upheaval — from the growth of health misinformation and conspiracy theories to advice from Dr. Google and looming pandemics? That is the role of Canada’s new chief public health officer, Dr. Joss Reimer — a physician from Manitoba and former president of the Canadian Medical Association — who began her new job on April 1, 2026. In this wide-ranging interview, host Avis Favaro talks with Dr. Reimer about the origins of her ...
The Last Word: LTC residents take control of their life and death
March 24, 2026
Every day across Canada, seniors who live in long-term care (LTC) homes are sent to hospital for medical care, some during their final days of life. In fact, according to new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, nearly 1 in 5 residents transferred from long-term care to the hospital die within a day — meaning they were likely near the end of their lives regardless of the urgent problem that led to the transfer. This raises the question, were these transfers necessary, ethi...
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