Loneliness is the greatest poverty | André Picard | Walrus Talks

From McMaster Presents The Walrus Talks Healthy Cities. Recorded February 10, 2016, in Hamilton, Ont.
André Picard is the health columnist at the Globe and Mail and one of Canada’s top public-policy writers. He is the author of the best-selling books Critical Care: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change and The Gift of Death: Confronting Canada’s Tainted-Blood Tragedy. André has received the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism, the Canadian Policy Research Award, and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, and is a four-time finalist for the National Newspaper Awards. He lives in Montreal.