January 17th, 2026

In This Issue

• Last Chance to Register For Our CHA National Assembly Call on Tuesday. You Won’t Want to Miss This One!
• The New US Food Pyramid Has Been Completely Flipped – And Why It is So Important For Our Health.
• People Who Get The Flu Shot Are 27% More Likely To Get Flu Than The unvaccinated, Reveals Cleveland Clinic Study
• How Much Has Been Stolen From Global Healthcare Budgets & How That Has Impacted The Financial Health Of Us All?

Executive Director’s Message

A few days ago, I got an email from Lawyer Lisa in which she stated that she was pro-life.

The crux of her brief note was that she was against the government murdering its citizens through vaccines, gene therapies, abortion, euthanasia, sterilization, bio-digital convergence, wars, fiscal policies and DEI. All of these points I think are very valid, especially in Canada where vaccines, abortion, sterilization and the current scourge of “Medical Assistance in Dying” have accounted for untold deaths.

But the main thing that Lisa’s email got me think about was how controversial a statement such as “I am pro-life” has become. While I know there are all sorts of angles and ‘qualifiers’ to what such a statement can allude to, I think it really does reflect why our Western civilization is in such a mess right now. For me, it comes down to basic morality.

Much like the gender debate, when it comes to life, there are only two options. You are either pro-life or anti-life.

I am pro-life.

Sure, there are always exceptions and extenuating circumstances, especially around specific cases of abortion, etc. But generally, you are either pro and believe in the sanctity of life, as most of our religious teachings instruct us to be, or you are anti and don’t believe in the sanctity of life.

With so much unnecessary pain, suffering, and yes – death, all around us, we all need to be proudly and openly pro-life. This is not to make a political statement, or to stir up emotive, and ultimately pointless, confrontational debates. Instead, it is just to protect the God-given gift of life and allow people (and yes, animals too) to fulfill their purpose and destiny as God intended, without letting them fall by the wayside and be cast aside by a system which doesn’t care.

And that issue of caring is also absolutely fundamental.

At Canada Health Alliance we often talk about the fact that the word “healthcare” should be reflective of a system that improves health and actually cares. Care is right at the heart of it.

With our current discussions on what the ‘Hospital of the Future’ should look like, including all the thoughts and contributions from you, our members, we are all honing in on the need for genuine care and compassion. This degree of focus on the need for care, which we all intuitively know, reflects the fact that there is obviously a major lack of care in our current healthcare system which we need to correct as quickly as we can.

Research shows that doctors that care and show empathy for their patients get much better clinical results and actual recoveries than doctors that don’t care (or at least don’t show it). This can be as simple as maintaining eye-contact. Yet, sadly, most overworked and over-stressed doctors don’t even have the time to look up from their computer screens. It is all part of the design to phase out the ‘human touch’ and replace it with cold, programmable, and ultimately obedient, A.I.

It is that ‘human touch’, compassion, empathy, call it what you will, but it all comes down to basic care. That is where true healing can begin. It is the reason why Florence Nightingale became such a legend and hero. She didn’t have any revolutionary scientific techniques that enabled her to help the sick or heal the wounded. She just cared for them. And she did it without discrimination or prejudice 24 hours a day, seven days a week!

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could get back to that level of real care and compassion, not just in healthcare, but in all our dealings with everyone.

Maybe ‘healing the world’ isn’t that complicated or impossible after all…

I think we should give it a try…

Alan Brough
CHA Executive Director – alan.brough@canadahealthalliance.org

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