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• I used to be a regular blood donor, but volunteers don’t seem to be a focus for CBS any more.Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-i-used-to-be-a-regular-blood-donor-but-volunteers-dont-seem-to-be-a/

  Oct 1, 2022

• Schools should train students to be citizen responders – every minutecounts in a crisis.Globe & Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-schools-should-train-students-to-be-citizen-responders-every-minute/

  Nov 2, 2022

• Lest we forget: We need to support the veterans who survived their war against COVID-19.Globe and Mail. Aug. 7. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article/Least-we-forget-we-nee-to-support-the-veterans-who-survived-the-war

  Aug 7, 2021

• Canada isn’t facing a third wave of Covid—We are facing a new pandemic. Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com.opinion./article-Canada-isnt-facing-a-third-wave-of-covid-we-are-facing-a-new-epidemic/

  Apr 23, 2021

• "Will we be prepared for ‘Disease X’ – the next pandemic."Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-will-we-be-prepared-for-disease-x-the-next-pandemic/

  May 28, 2018

• Old age alone shouldn't be considered a justification for physician-assisted death.Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-old-age-alone-shouldnt-be-considered-a-justification-for-physician/

  April 9, 2018

• "The right to a compassionately accepted life, not death."Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/04/02/the-right-to-a-compassionately-assisted-life-not-death.html

  April 2, 2018

• "Assisted Death Should be the final Option."Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/assisted-death-should-be-the-final-option/article37483028/.

  Jan. 4, 2018

• “When Canada confronts a bully: tit-for-tat is best.” Globe and Mail. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/when-canada-confronts-a-bully-tit-for-tat-is-best/article35197422/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&

  June 5, 2017

• “The Next Court Challenge: For Better Care.” Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-next-court-challenge-the-right-to-better-care/article29678936/

  April 20, 2016

• Zika virus is the price we pay for globalization. Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/zika-virus-is-the-price-we-pay-for-globalization/article28544681/

  Feb. 4, 2016

• “Assisted dying law is too important to rush.” Globe and Mail (Online). http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/assisted-dying-law-is- too-important-to-rush/article27599873

  Dec.5, 2015

• Living versus dying ‘with dignity’. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-koch/living -versus-dyingwithdignity b 8676602.html

  Nov. 30, 2015

• Ebola, Quarantine, and the Scale of Ethics. Disaster Medicine And Public Health Preparedness. DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.115.

  Oct.2015

• When business and government clash. Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/when-business-and-government-clash-the-needs-of-citizens-must-prevail/article26587579/

• What the ‘game-changer’ Ebola vaccine says about Canadian R&D Globe and Mail, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/what-the-game-changer-ebola-vaccine-says-about-canadian-rd/article25866635/

  Aug. 7, 2015

• There’s more to the Pan Am Games than waving the Maple Leaf Toronto Globe & Mail, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/theres-more-to-the-pan-am-games-than-waving-the-maple-leaf/article25515877/

  July 15, 2015.

• “What’s worse than sad?” Trgedy should teach us something.”, N.Y. Times (Op-Ed) , http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/opinion/sunday/ whats-worse-than-sad.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod =nytcore-ipad&_r=0

  25 Jan 2015

• “The Language of Living and Dying in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, Huffington Post , http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tom-koch/charter-of-rights-and- freedoms_b_5931722.html

  5 Oct 2014

• Powerless Poor Make Handy Research Subjects, Toronto Star , http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/07/24/powerless_poor_make_handy_research_subjects.html

  23 July 2013

• Let’s Speak Less About Death and More About Care, Toronto Star , http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/07/02/lets_speak_less_of_death_and_more_about_care.html

  2 July 2013

• 'End of Life' Often Means 'Ending Life'. Toronto Star , http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2012/12/15/end_of_life_often_really_means_ending_life.html

  15 Dec. 2012

• What’s Behind Hatred of Obama? Re: Democrats Rebrand Obama for Hard Times. Toronto Star , http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2012/09/07/whats_behind_hatred_of_obama.html.

  7 Sep. 2012

• Confusing the Issue (The B.C. Taylor Case in Court). Toronto Star A23

  17 Nov. 2011

• End of Life, Year After Year After Year. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 181, 868

  24 Nov. 2009

• Don’t Blame the Journalist. The Scientist.com 10 November, http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/56071/

  19 Nov. 2009

• The Golubchuk Case. An Editorial Response. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association Online Dec 22 2008, http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/178/9/1115#19277

  27 April 2008

• When I'm 64 Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 179:4. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/4/388.

  August, 2008

• John Snow, Hero of Cholera: RIP. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 179:3, 257. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/13/1736

  17 June 2008

• The Golubchuk Case: Editorial Response (Letter). Journal of the Canadian Medical Association http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/178/9/1115#19277 .

  29 April 2008

• Were Polio to Return Today... Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178:4, 1244. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/9/1244

  2008

• The Body in the World: The art of Lila LoCurto and Bill Outcault. J. Canadian Medical Association 178:3, 191-3. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/2/191

  15 Jan. 2008

• Robert Latimer: Bait and Switch. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178:3, 360.

  15 Jan. 2008

• Bioethics: What a Grand Idea. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178:1, 116.1

  Jan. 2008

• A Doctor in This House: Television’s Gregory House. Canadian Medical Association Journal 178:1, 67.

  1 Jan. 2008

• Vancouver is Like an Adolescent About to Grow Up. SFU Reports, 5. http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/regular_features/comment04050601.htm.

  5 April 2006

• Who Will Deliver Healthcare in British Columbia? SFU Reports, p.5. http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu/News/regular_features/comment03090601.htm

  9 March 2005

• Why We Doubt Privatized Health Care. Victoria Times Colonist A13.

  22 Feb. 2006

• Fighting the Battle Against Epidemic Disease. Simon Fraser University News p. 5.

  20 Oct. 2005

• An Alternative to Alternative Medicine. Simon Fraser University News. http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/regular_features/comment.html

  10 March 2005

• Fantasies in Our Daily Political News: Stephen Harper insists he is not beholden to anyone. Simon Fraser University News

  5 Feb. 2004

• What We Don't Know About Life and Death: The Terri Shiavo case. Simon Fraser University News

  13 Nov. 2003

• Has Academe Lost its Sense of Participation? Simon Fraser University News .

  5-10 July, 2003

• Return of the Plague: Epidemics and Public Health. Ottawa Citizen (op-ed: editorial)

  10 June, 2003

• BC Would Be Hard Pressed to Treat a SARS Outbreak. Vancouver Sun (Letter), A15

  31 March 2003

• In Praise of the Romanow Commission. Simon Fraser University News , 5.

  23 Jan. 2003

• Nearing the End of the Medical Dark Ages. Simon Fraser University News

  31 Oct. 2002

• US Freedoms Dealt Serious Body Blow. Simon Fraser University News

  5 Sept. 2002

• Doctors Show the Government that Dealing with Union was Easy Part. Vancouver Sun

  29 May, 2002

• War? What war?: Comments on the Afghanistan Conflict. Simon Fraser University News 24:2

  16 May 2002

• "Art Imitating Health Care?" The movie John Q and the problem of graft organ distribution. Simon FraserUniversity News .

  Feb. 2002

• B.C. Healthcare's Brave New World. Simon Fraser University News

  2 May, 2002

• Organ Transplants Without Borders. National Post, A 13.

  30 April, 2001

• Medical Care Requires Compassion. Winnipeg Free Press , (Letter)

  17 April 2001

• Disabled are Not Dogs. (Commentary on the Robert Latimer case) Vancouver Sun A-15

  7 Feb. 2001

• Age in a Changing World. Rafe Meir Show (CKNW), Vancouver

  6 Feb. 2001

• Fetal Cell Research: The Canadian alternatives CBC Radio noon open line show (Vancouver)

  25 Jan. 2001

• Spend the Budget Surplus? What Surplus? CBC Radio Commentary (National) .

  3 Nov. 2000

• "Should Canada Permit Zenotransplantation?" CBC Noon Hour radio show, Noon Hour, Vancouver, BC .

  20 Aug. 2000

• Computer Assisted Journalism. Encyclopedia of Computer Science Ralston, A. and Hemmendger , D. Eds. NY: International Thompson Computer.

  2000

• Distributing Canada's Wealth Across the Country Saves Lives. Vancouver Sun (op-ed) A-14.

  2 Aug. 2000

• Tax Time: Income Redistribution Works. CBC Radio Commentary (national) .

  18 Apr. 2000

• Don't Cut Costs on the Final Hours. National Post (op-ed) A-18.

  24 Mar. 2000

• The 'Canadian Millenium'. CBC Radio Commentary (National) .

  Jan. 3, 2000

• Food Banks Short, Again. Of Course. CBC Radio, Vancouver .

  18 Dec. 1999

• Alberta and the Two-tiered System of Public Health. CBC Radio Commentary (National) .

  26 Nov. 1999

• Prairie Conservatism and the Death of Tyrell Dueck. CBC Radio Commentary (National) .

  5 July 1999

• The Difference a Word Can Make: "Compensation" and the Canadian Hepatitis Controversy. CBC Radio .

  May, 1998

• Book review, Kenneth W. Goodman, Ed. Ethics, Computing, and Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine .

  June, 1998

• Caregivers use the Internet to go Beyond the Traditional Means of Fact-gathering. Medicine on the Net .

  May, 1998

• Caveat Emptor Information Highways.

  August, 1997

• Online Intimacies: Globe and Mail, Toronto . Focus Sect. p.5,

  14 Dec. 1996

• The Myth of a Loving Murder. Reader's Digest (Canadian edition) .

  Aug. 1996

• The Myth of Loving Murder. (The Constructed Tale of Jean and Cecil Brush). Toronto Life Magazine .

  Dec. 1995

• Reporters, Editors, and the Internet: Future Hopes, Present Problems. The Media and the Internet. Toronto : Ernst & Young.

  Aug. 1995

• The Reporter in the Information Age. Cahir 11 Journalistiek en Communicate Utrecht, Netherlands .

  Winter, 1995

• Community vs. Computers. Quill Magazine .

  May, 1994

• Information Mapping: Data and Information. Online Research and CD-ROM Review .

  Dec. 1993