Opinion

@The system for senior care is broken, and it was broken before the pandemic. Not just public long-term care homes, not just private residences. There is a systematic breakdown in just about every care home in our country.My father, Stanley Pinnell, was one of 47 residents who died at Résidence...

@When you go to the doctor, you likely present your MSI card at the office without ever thinking about paying for your visit. But there are good reasons for patients to understand how doctors are paid for their work, because it's how the health-care system communicates to physicians what it values...

@If the Jon Gruden email scandal had only contained one message, with one racist line about one person, the deposed head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders would probably still have his job.Late last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2011 Gruden — then an ESPN analyst — wrote to then-Washington Football Team...

@Navigating identity as a second-generation immigrant is like teetering on a fine line between cultural worlds. For me, as I was growing up, my Filipino identity was confined to the walls of my childhood home. Imagine the constant sizzle and simmer of fragrant, vinegary food, the mishmash of trinkets and...

@It's 3 a.m. My wife is going for her official pregnancy test later that morning to see if our embryo transfer worked. I wake up as she crawls into bed behind me. "I couldn't wait, so I took a test," she tells me.I wait, steeling myself for the results. "It was...

@When I got an unexpected message that February that a good friend of mine had died, 2020 was already starting to feel like a terrible year. Bob's death hit me hard. We were close when we were in college, but had lost touch over the years. I found myself full...

@When the world finally realized that COVID-19 required an immediate and drastic response, governments around the world were scrambling. This was uncharted territory. Initial lockdowns and restrictions on travel were implemented throughout March 2020. The New Brunswick experience is telling. It characterized a marked departure from the paths taken elsewhere, and contributed...

@For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.When you hear the word "farmer," what is the image that comes to mind? Is it of a man out in the fields or in front of his barn or working with animals? How about a picture of a woman, who's often out...

@I have always loved eating Pakistani food — desi food is rich, spiced with aromatic flavours and packs a punch. And the stereotype that it can be oily… well, that can be true. Even though I knew heart disease ran in our family, it was not something my family actively considered. That's...

@For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.After 19 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have learned much about how to control the spread of the virus to minimize suffering and death. Sadly for the people of Saskatchewan, our government is ignoring these important lessons and we are experiencing the tragic...

@It started with a pair of pants. I've been obsessing over my weight since I was 11 when I got a pair of Lee's "husky" jeans for the new school year. I had some belly flab and I was told, "You'll grow out of it." I suppose I did, but...

@In August 2016, my life was blown apart when my husband died unexpectedly from an accidental opioid overdose. I became a widow at 40 years old. In an instant, my life was changed irreversibly and I found myself alone with two young kids to raise and an immeasurable amount of...

@Last week, an obituary went viral, proving that even in the middle of a global pandemic, one life can still resonate.When a reporter for the L.A. Times came across Eric Sydow's tender, measured tribute to his late sister Karen, he tweeted it out to his followers. Two days later, it had...

@After months of feeding carrots to vaccine-hesitant Albertans, Premier Jason Kenney is breaking out the stick.Sort of.He is telling Alberta's 25,000 civil servants who work directly for the government they must be vaccinated by Nov. 30 or produce a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of every scheduled workday. Those that refuse...

@This First Person article was written by Patricia Bourque, a visual artist and Mi'kmaw First Nation member of Lennox Island First Nation, from Epekwitk also known as Prince Edward Island. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.Today, Sept. 30, has been Orange Shirt Day since 2013. It's now...

@For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.I was hit hard by the news earlier this summer of the gravesites of 215 Indigenous children found at an old residential school site in Kamloops, B.C. I drove my oldest son, who is seven, to the legislative building here in Regina to...