Saskatchewan Office

Dan Cameron reviews the Saskatchewan government's recent Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation and asks whether the consultations may actually serve as an opportunity for the provincial labour movement to expand the process of collective bargaining.

More here. 

The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to
present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal
medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace
the battle for medicare from the creation of Swift Current Health Region No. 1, to
the Hospital Services Plan, to the epic Saskatchewan Doctor’s Strike in the summer
of 1962, to the triumphant passage of National Health Insurance in 1966. Please
consider purchasing this calendar as a way to celebrate Canada’s most important of
social programs. 
 
Click here to learn more and to order your copy.

On June 15th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present a unique Citizen's Conference on the Future of Medicare. "Envisioning the Future of Medicare" will both celebrate fifty years of universal medicare and look to the future of how we sustain and improve this most important of Canadian social programs. Join us in a unique interactive conversation with some of the brightest minds in the fields of health practice and policy. 

For more information on the conference and registration, visit here. 

On June 15th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present a unique Citizen's Conference on the Future of Medicare. "Envisioning the Future of Medicare" will both celebrate fifty years of universal medicare and look to the future of how we sustain and improve this most important of Canadian social programs. Join us in a unique interactive conversation with some of the brightest minds in the fields of health practice and policy. 

Participants include former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan, Dean of the College of Medicine Dr. William Albritton, Health Policy and Research Consultant Steven Lewis, Medical doctor and community organizer Ryan Meili, long-time public health activists Dr. John and Betsy Bury and former Vice President, Community Services of Saskatoon Health Region, Shan Landry. 

Unlike other conferences, this event will offer participants the chance to engage in interactive discussion groups on the prominent issues and challenges facing our public medicare system. The participants themselves will drive these discussions in five key issues of importance to the healthcare debate. Participants will then have the opportunity to receive feedback and insight from prominent experts acting as “respondents” to the group discussions. 

This is a rare and unique opportunity for persons concerned with the future of public medicare in our country to engage in a lively and spirited discussion with some of the brightest minds on the issue of healthcare.

Is the Wildrose challenge to Tory supremacy in Alberta over? Or is it just beginning? Find out here.

Simon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan Office, wonders what a Wildrose Party victory in the upcoming Alberta election will mean for Saskatchewan. More here.

With the elimination of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit and the certain demise of the film industry in the province, Premier Brad Wall asked:
"If an industry cannot survive at all without a permanent taxpayer subsidy, should the taxpayers subsidize indefinitely?" The Saskatchewan Office offers an answer. 

Saskatchewan Director Simon Enoch discusses the upcoming federal budget and the CCPA's Alternative Budget with Prairie Dog's Gregory Beatty. Read more here.