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

3/5/2026
Death comes for Yasmin
A human hurricane falls still: Reflections on the life, longing and lasting echoes of a Montreal matriarch.

Martha Porado
2/19/2026
What the hell is ‘Alberta approved immigration status?’
Blaming immigrants for healthcare strain is an embarrassingly bad excuse.

Martha Porado
2/18/2026
Mandate interoperability—and hurry up about it: Take a look at the Digital Health Interoperability Task Force’s submission to Health Canada
In the wake of the Connected Care for Canadian Act’s revival, a group of major stakeholders has a lot to say to the federal government about how health data interoperability should actually look.

Martha Porado
2/16/2026
AFMC provides update on IMGs and first-iteration matches in Ontario
Last year, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice put a judicial stay ‘temporarily putting a stop to the Ontario government policy requiring IMGs applying to Ontario-based positions in the first iteration of the 2026 R-1 Main Residency Match to have completed two years of high school in Ontario.’

Martha Porado
2/11/2026
My genes crafted a brain aneurysm and the expertise of researchers and doctors saved me
Because of new surgery techniques—that weren't available to my relatives who suffered the same affliction as I do—I'm here and able to exercise my love of language.

Martha Porado
2/3/2026
WRITING CONTEST: 2026 Resident Voices contest for medical residents
Tell us a story! This year, the theme of the contest is Lessons in Communication, with a grand prize of a $500 Visa gift card.

Martha Porado
1/25/2026
CPhA seeks to clarify the finer points of therapeutically substituting controlled substances
New federal regulations are coming into effect in October.

Martha Porado
1/25/2026
Local Alta. pharmacy MacKenzie Drugs cites Crown corp. turmoil as it removes Canada Post services
What brought this longstanding relationship to a close?

Martha Porado
1/25/2026
‘Worst offenders’: CMA, CFIB survey spotlights these particular paperwork tasks
The 1,924 responses sing many a familiar tune for physicians—but spotlight certain pain points in paperwork.

Martha Porado
1/22/2026
Manitoba recruits U.S. doctors, one points to political climate as a factor
‘I focus on underserved populations and that includes LGBTQ+ populations,” a recent recruit from Michigan said. ‘So I saw, sort of, the writing on the wall that it was going to become more and more difficult to provide quality care to those patients.’

Martha Porado