The Dose

Canada's Bill C-34 aims to restrict social media access for people under the age of 16. Supporters say it could help reduce rising rates of depression, anxiety and social isolation. But Dr. Shimi Kang, a psychiatrist and clinical associate professor at UBC, says the proposed restrictions need more clarity, noting that social media can also help marginalized young people find support.For transcripts of The Dose, please visit: lnk.to/dose-transcripts. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. For more episodes of this podcast, click this link.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━12,347 listeners this week.[Claim your free resources →](freehealth.ca/)[Don't leave yours on the table.](freehealth.ca/)[👇 Join them in 3 seconds.](freehealth.ca/)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected in Toronto and Vancouver for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but what does that mean for public health? Dr. Michelle Murti, medical officer of health for Toronto Public Health, says her team has planned for everything from infectious diseases to heat to food safety, and will be ready when the games kick off.For transcripts of The Dose, please visit: lnk.to/dose-transcripts. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. For more episodes of this podcast, click this link.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━12,347 listeners this week.[Claim your free resources →](freehealth.ca/)[Don't leave yours on the table.](freehealth.ca/)[👇 Join them in 3 seconds.](freehealth.ca/)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━