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Canadian public health care and world trade
OTTAWA--The Canadian government must take decisive action now to halt the commercialization of health care, says the 2003 report of Social Watch Canada to be presented this week at the annual...
January 24, 2003 | National Office
Un rapport indique que le gouvernement fédéral doit donner le pas au maintien des soins de santé publics
Si le gouvernement fédéral ne recommence pas à participer au système de santé public en y injectant des fonds supplémentaires et en employant son pouvoir juridique et moral pour prévenir la...
January 23, 2003 | National Office
Public health care depends on federal leadership
OTTAWA‹If the federal government fails to get back in the health care game with increased funding, and by using its legal and moral authority to prevent the growth of the private system, it will...
January 23, 2003 | National Office
Economist connects the dots
(OTTAWA) Of the three competing visions for health care that are on the table -- proposed by Senator Michael Kirby, Roy Romanow, and the provinces -- only one will end up defining the direction of...
January 22, 2003 | National Office
A fine balance
Death through attrition and a barrage of anti-union legislation is the future for the Canadian labour movement unless it aggressively organizes thousands of new members every year. That's the...
December 19, 2002 | National Office
Skewed distribution of financial assets driving growing wealth inequality across Canada, says new study
OTTAWA--Canadians may view their country as a land of opportunity, but it is also a land of deep and abiding inequality in its distribution of personal wealth. This is the key conclusion of Rags...
December 12, 2002 | National Office, BC Office
The right to strike and the provision of emergency services in Canadian health care
Should health care professionals and support staff have the right to strike? Why have more than 200,000 of them walked off the job for varying periods since 1999--whether they had the legal right...
December 10, 2002 | National Office, Nova Scotia Office
Romanow report
OTTAWA--The Romanow report is a clear rejection of the status quo and a pragmatic step in the right direction to secure the future of public health care, according to CCPA economist Armine...
November 28, 2002 | National Office
New study explains why Canada should not jump on the monetary integration bandwagon
OTTAWA--Spurred by a plummeting Canadian dollar which has been subjected to strong speculative pressures during the last decade, support has built up for greater monetary integration and even for...
November 21, 2002 | National Office
NAFTA and other trade agreements prevent adoption of independent industrial policy
(OTTAWA) International trade agreements and other market-driven reforms in recent years have stripped nation-states of many tools to implement the activist industrial policies needed to promote...
November 15, 2002 | National Office, BC Office

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