Chris Selley: Celebrating health-care mediocrity remains, unbelievably, the Canadian way

2026-03-04 - 23:33

“Proud to be #2 in the world,” was the front-page ad Toronto General Hospital (TGH) took out in Sunday’s Toronto Star to welcome some recent good news: Newsweek magazine recently named TGH the second-best hospital in the world, ahead of the Cleveland Clinic and behind the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Heady company, all will agree, even if such obsequious pride in second place seemed a bit, well, Canadian. (“Clearly they didn’t have Asian parents,” ER physician Kashif Pirzada quipped on X.) Read More