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December 19, 2023

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  • Budget 2024: Canada needs to go all-in on green industrial policy

    Prepared remarks for Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2024 Budget

    November 7, 2023
  • Bill C-35 is a chance for the feds to fully implement accessible childcare—if they do it right

    Presentation to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology consideration of Bill C-35

    November 6, 2023
  • Fall update: Ontario’s projected deficit is an accounting fiction

    Ontario government is squirreling money away while public services suffer

    November 3, 2023
  • Raising the bar: our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC

    Raising the bar: Our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC

    Platform companies like Uber, Lyft and Skip the Dishes derive profits at the expense of taxpayers’ contributions and workers’ health and safety. The BC government…

    November 2, 2023
  • Hospital surgery corridor. Blurred figures of people with medical uniforms in hospital corridor

    “Not broken, just underfunded”: for-profit care won’t reduce wait times, CCPA report says

    TORONTO — The Ontario government’s plan to expand the use of for-profit corporations to provide surgeries and diagnostic procedures won’t reduce wait times and is…

    November 2, 2023
  • At what cost?

    About the authorAndrew LonghurstAndrew Longhurst is a senior researcher and political economist, with a focus on health policy, at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.…

    November 2, 2023
  • Hospital surgery corridor. Blurred figures of people with medical uniforms in hospital corridor

    “Not broken, just underfunded”: for-profit care won’t reduce wait times, CCPA report says

    TORONTO — The Ontario government’s plan to expand the use of for-profit corporations to provide surgeries and diagnostic procedures won’t reduce wait times and is…

    November 2, 2023
  • The Monitor, November/December 2023

    The social solution to Canada’s health care problem.

    November 1, 2023
  • Time to grow social and education spending—it’s key to good health

    Medical care and social investments are not an either/or proposition.

    November 1, 2023
  • Three key health policy movements are aligning

    Get Well Canada, well-being budgeting, and health-in-all-policies are converging to address the most critical factors shaping health are the economic, social and environmental conditions in…

    November 1, 2023
  • Social and medical spending: Flip sides of the same coin

    Research finds the ratio between health and social spending is key to understanding health outcomes.

    November 1, 2023
  • Addressing the fundamental causes of population health inequality

    Health inequality is a persistent problem—and it’s directly tied to other forms of inequality.

    November 1, 2023
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