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Alberta’s ER deaths spotlight systemic hospital underfunding
90 per cent of ER patients waited 37 hours for hospital admission in 2024-25
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Failure, by design: Ontario’s deepening hospital funding crisis
The Ontario hospital funding crisis is harming patients, especially people living in smaller and rural communities
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Conçu pour échouer: La crise financière croissante dans le secteur hospitalier de l’Ontario
La crise financière croissante dans le secteur hospitalier de l’Ontario nuit aux patient(e)s et aux collectivités
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Canada’s federal government abandons national pharmacare
There will be no new federal funding for pharmacare. Provinces and territories will have to go it alone.
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Alberta’s new health legislation brings U.S. style insurance to Canada
Making a private health insurance market: the risks of the Canadian and U.S. industry to public medicare
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The Alberta government legislates two-tier health care, again
As the province becomes the first to encourage self-referral testing—it’s literally “me first” policy
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Ontario is underfunding public health care—and private health care is the beneficiary
$3 billion dollar funding gap drives privatization and downloads costs onto Ontarians
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The 2026 Ontario budget neglects core provincial responsibilities
The 2026 budget fails to address the core responsibilities of provincial governments.
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Vitals check: Restoring provincial health spending in Manitoba
Health care spending in Manitoba has increased substantially since 2023, but it will take more to recover from years of underfunding
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Do trade deals put public health care up for sale?
Alberta’s promised two-tier transition comes with unacknowledged threats from trade and investment agreements.
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Deaths following paid-plasma donations demand inquiry
Two Winnipeg deaths following paid-plasma donations at for-profit centres give urgency to provincial and federal responses
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Patients or profits first?
Saskatchewan’s Patient First health plan still leaves the door open to for-profit services
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