2026-02-22 from ctvnews.ca
OTTAWA — The federal government is taking its first steps toward developing a national men’s health strategy, launching a survey for Canadians to weigh in.
As previously reported by The Canadian Press, federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel is working on a strategy on men’s and boys’ health, to be released later this year.
The national online survey will launch in early March and will run until the beginning of June.
Advocacy group Movember and researchers from the University of British Columbia released a report last summer calling on the federal government to create such a strategy.
The group says 75,000 Canadian men died prematurely in 2023, and many of their deaths were from preventable causes.
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