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Is Public Service Delivery Obsolete?

Why competition between civil servants, corporations, and non-profits is good for everyone

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

Promoting Democracy Abroad

Is it the right time for Canada to take on this file?

Charles J. Wright

Charles J. Wright is a healthcare consultant based in Toronto. From 1999 to 2007, he was Scientific Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, after a career in surgery, teaching, research and administration at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia.

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Charles J. Wright

Too Much Health Care

We can’t afford life’s creeping medicalization November 2009
The general health of the population today must be considered one of the greatest marvels of human civilization and ingenuity. Pregnant women no longer have to dread the 10 percent risk of death at childbirth that used to be usual; a newborn in Canada today can expect to live 80 years; death related to childhood infections is now…