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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the Aga Khan on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in May 2016. A few months later, he vacationed on the Aga Khan’s island in the Bahamas and was found to have violated conflict-of-interest laws. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

October 22, 2024

As a federal election campaign looms, Canadians must demand stronger ethics laws from politicians

Ian Stedman, York University, Canada and Matthew Cerilli, McMaster University

If trust in government matters to Canadians, then ethics issues must be kept in public view and political parties pressured to offer meaningful reform ideas in their campaign and party platforms.

Rare diseases aren’t, in fact, all that rare. Yet they continue to be brushed aside by most politicians. Why? Rawpixel/Unsplash

February 27, 2019

It’s time to rethink what the medical profession considers a ‘rare disease’

Ian Stedman, York University, Canada; Ashwin Seetharaman, University of Toronto, and Kristin Kantautas, University of Toronto

Despite the fact that rare diseases aren’t actually so rare, it appears they suffer from a branding problem in Canada.

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