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The case of affluenza

Trish Hennessy I’m beginning to think there are two kinds of people in life: Marie Kondo devotees and those who say “Marie who?” Marie...

The truth about taxes

Trish Hennessy In Ontario, where I live, news of devastating provincial funding cuts keeps pouring in. Public libraries are cancelling...

If you fall, who will catch you?

Trish Hennessy Emotions ran high in Hamilton last week as the community celebrated participants who took a leap of faith to join...

Measuring success in the federal budget

A wellbeing budget goes beyond debt and GDP Alex Paterson Everyone in this country probably knows what the latest federal budget is...

Is your city designed for women?

Trish Hennessy Last September someone invited women to tweet about what they would do if men had a curfew. The results were illuminating:...

Time to shift the bell curve toward health

Life is lived on a bell curve. Many attributes of a population— height, for example—are distributed on a bell-shaped curve, with the...

Think Upstream Radio: Why early learning investments matter

Better early learning options = better life chances Podcast with Charles Pascal hosted by Trish Hennessy Trish Hennessy Eight years ago I...

Public health beyond the anthropocene

We need to give up thinking about nature and society as distinct entities and look to eco-social determinants of health if we want to...

Honk if you’re stuck and stressed

It’s 6:45 am, still dark on this winter morning, but six floors below me on the major thoroughfare which is the street that I live on, a...

The quest for universal pharmacare

Canada’s federal government seems poised to prop up the status quo instead of going upstream Alex Paterson It looks like the snake oil...

Four of top 10 global health threats are environmental

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a report on the top ten threats to health in 2019. Strikingly, several are related...

The opioid crisis and mental suffering

Let’s get to the heart of the matter Alex Paterson Hey Upstream community, today on Bell Let's Talk Day I’m launching a new monthly blog...