The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) has recently been pulled back into the spotlight of Canada’s heated political landscape, sparking a debate that feels both familiar and deeply uncomfortable. When politicians move to slash funding for refugee healthcare—as we saw in the failed motion this past February—it echoes the controversial and eventually struck-down cuts of 2012. At the heart of this tension is a troubling reliance on misinformation. By painting refugees as “opportunists” gaming the system, critics tap into a fear-based narrative that ignores the human reality of why people come to Canada in the first place: they are survivors…

In the high-altitude, mountainous city of Manizales, Colombia, a quiet revolution in digital literacy is taking place. As a region with one of the most rapidly aging populations in the country, the local community has faced a pressing challenge: how to protect vulnerable older adults from the rising tide of viral misinformation. For residents like 69-year-old Ángela María Henao Toro, the digital world once felt like a minefield. She recalls receiving alarmist WhatsApp messages claiming that local temperatures were set to spike to a dangerous 122 degrees Fahrenheit—a claim that was entirely false, yet cleverly designed to incite panic. Through…