Do you live in a healthy city?
What does a healthy city look like: Tune into Upstream Radio
Here at Upstream, we ask the question: what does a healthy city look like?
read more
The Next 150: Reconciliation and Health
For the better health of all of us, how do we get from colonialism to reconciliation, and what will that future look like?
read more
No human should be homeless
Homelessness is complicated. There’s not one easy or simple solution. But we cannot let those remain excuses for doing nothing, or even too little.
read more
Housing is health care
A novel solution to the health crisis of homelessness: get people into homes.
read more
Spend upstream to improve health outcomes
We're sick with poverty. And we have the data to prove it.
read more
How much do lifestyle choices really matter for health?
If we want healthier communities, we must stop thinking of health only as a matter of personal responsibility and lifestyle choices, and dive deeper to the greater social determinants.
read more
To cure hunger, prescribe income
In this ninth episode of Upstream Radio, we zoom out and look to the deepest sources of hunger and food insecurity, and what can be done to address these urgent Canadian public health crises.
read more
Reconnect food and health
Hunger isn't an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.
- Jacques Diouf
read more
We can't separate health from environment
In this seventh episode we’re looking at a determinant that’s sometimes ignored not because of how small it is, but because of how big! We're talking about what we call “the wider environment”, and the “ecological determinants of health”.
read more