On The Line: On the frontlines of emergency health care in Canada

On The Line: On the frontlines of emergency health care in Canada

June 30, 2026 · 1h 1m

About this episode

Matt Gurney discusses the state of emergency medicine in Canada with Dr. Brian Goldman.

In this episode of On The Line , host Matt Gurney sits down with Dr. Brian Goldman, veteran emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and author of The Casino Shift: Stories from an ER on the Edge , for a candid conversation about the state of emergency medicine in Canada. (You can find it on Indigo’s website , or, if you prefer, on Amazon .) This episode is brought to you by BioCanRx, a federally-funded Canadian not-for-profit research network bringing cutting edge cancer immunotherapy research from Canadian labs to patients in clinical trials –– all in Canada. Clinical trials are the way new drugs, including immunotherapies, are tested in patients around the world. It’s up to the developer of the drug to decide whether they want to trial it in Canada –– and many do. Health Canada, our national regulator, reviews and approves all Clinical Trial Applications, or CTAs, returning a decision within 30 days –– a similar turnaround time as the U.S. FDA and other major jurisdictions. If they approve, and if the trial receives research ethics approval, it can start enrolling Canadian patients. To submit a complete CTA, applicants must provide hundreds –– sometimes thousands…

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