Book Launch: Breaking Canadians by Nili Kaplan-Myrth

Join University of Toronto Press to celebrate the launch of Breaking Canadians: Health Care, Advocacy, and the Toll of COVID-19 by Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth. On the panel will also be contributors Michelle Cohen, Imogen Coe, David Fisman, Maggie Helwig, Genevieve Eastabrook and Leora Eisen to share readings from their own chapters.

About the Speakers

Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth is a lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She is a family physician, anthropologist, Fulbright and Commonwealth scholar, and mother of three who has spent her life advocating for equitable access to health care, Indigenous self-determination in health, disability rights, 2SLGBTQ health, and mental health care.

Dr. Brian Goldman is the bestselling author of The Power of Kindness: Why Empathy Is Essential in Everyday Life, host of CBC’s White Coat, Black Art, and a veteran emergency room physician.

About Breaking Canadians: Health Care, Advocacy, and the Toll of COVID-19

Breaking Canadians brings together health care experts, community advocates, and average citizens from across Canada to offer a unique analysis of the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book explores the fragmentation of Canada’s health care system, the growth of social inequalities, and the impact of colonialism, racism, ableism, and ageism on the well-being of people in this country. It sheds light on the people our health care system undervalues and overlooks, including nurses, social workers, and essential caregivers. An important collection of stories, insights, cautionary tales, and calls for action, Breaking Canadians is also a harbinger of what is to come if we do not learn, change our trajectory, and fix what is broken.

Host or Publisher University of Toronto Press