Martha Porado

Editor, Canadian Healthcare Network

Author Profile

Martha Porado is a Toronto-based award-winning reporter and editor specializing in healthcare, science, business and political journalism. She is the editor of the Canadian Healthcare Network, prior to which she was the managing editor of the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business.

Her previous roles include associate editor of Benefits Canada magazine, where she specialized in institutional investment news. Her byline can also be found in many other Canadian publications, including Advisor’s Edge, Investment Executive, the Canadian Investment Review, Canadian Insurance Top Broker, Canadian Grocer, Now Magazine and the now defunct Vice. Prior to focusing on print and digital publishing, she worked at BNN Bloomberg’s downtown Toronto newsroom as a broadcast associate and production coordinator for live news broadcasts. She fondly remembers screening call-in questions for its popular Market Call program.

When she is not editing copy on new clinical research or putting together tomorrow’s Doctor Daily newsletter, she can be found watering her ceiling-scraping houseplants, driving around with antique furniture peeking out of her hatchback, or bragging about how she’s definitely seen more movies than you have.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

10/27/2026
CPhA updates resource as menopausal hormone therapy shortage continues
Earlier this year, the CPhA compiled the original resource due to ongoing supply challenges.

Martha Porado
10/27/2026
Calgary heart specialist takes on the Great Canadian Baking Show
Dr. Angela Kealey goes from the catheterization lab to the baking tent.

Martha Porado
10/27/2026
If you don’t build it, they will . . . leave?
Leaky pipes and heating and cooling problems plague the old New Waterford Consolidated in Nova Scotia, even though a new building was promised . . . 12 years ago. And one doctor says he might leave the community where he's practiced all that time.

Martha Porado
10/27/2026
What do women need to succeed?
Although they account for about 70% of the pharmacist workforce in Canada—and worldwide—women are under-represented in positions of ownership and entrepreneurship.

Martha Porado
10/26/2026
RCMP investigating Alberta health procurement for possible fraud, money laundering
The information is contained in court documents filed this month as part of an ongoing wrongful dismissal lawsuit launched by Athana Mentzelopoulos.

Martha Porado
10/25/2026
Alberta allowing optometrists to perform minor laser procedures
Optometrists will also be permitted to treat benign skin lesions and styes.

Martha Porado
10/25/2026
Health Canada warns FreeStyle Libre 3 App users need to update the app
A recent security update ‘introduced an unintended defect.’

Martha Porado
10/25/2026
People are dying of heart attacks at Nanaimo’s outdated hospital
The services that Nanaimo should be able to offer, but cannot, include a cardiac catheterization laboratory, general internal medicine, neurology and stroke care, oncology, general pediatrics, gastroenterology, palliative care and hospice, to name a few.

Martha Porado
10/22/2026
We're hearing more about rabies in the news. Here's what to know about the virus
Between January and September of this year, 397 laboratory-confirmed rabies cases in animals were reported to the CFIA. In 2025, there were 281 cases in the entire year.

Martha Porado
10/22/2026
Practice streams: Efficiency or a trap?
Once again, we find the blockage in admitting new patients is because we have no acceptable place or robust process to offload patients currently occupying vital bedspace but no longer needing intensive medical care.

Martha Porado
10/22/2026
Beyond the 4% rule: Looking at how much doctors need to retire
The 4% rule has been popularized as a simple way to answer this critical question. It may be useful or misleading. Understanding how it works will help you to tell the difference.

Martha Porado
10/21/2026
Life rarely goes according to plan. Here’s how to get better at adapting
‘Uncertainty is a fundamental part of life, whether it’s our relationships, our health, our finances.’

Martha Porado