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Continued reductions in access to seniors care lead to hospital overcrowding, longer wait times: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) BC seniors face continued reductions in access to key home and community care services, with serious consequences…
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Caring for BC’s Aging Population
Improving Health Care for All Download 3.5 MB33 pages Correction 10/Sept/2012: The original version of this report, published July 11, 2012, contained an error in…
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Better seniors care a solution to overcrowded hospitals and surgery wait times
A recent landmark investigation by BC’s Ombudsperson highlighted the serious problems seniors experience in accessing affordable high-quality home and community-based services (such as residential care,…
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Dreaming Big Dreams?
Congratulations both to the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (SPCW) for raising the issue of the long-standing divide between Winnipeg’s North End and the rest…
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Stuffing Solar City where the sun don’t shine?
The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Solar City project has been widely heralded as visionary and pioneering, an inspiration not only to other municipalities in Nova Scotia,…
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More Canadians Give Up Looking for Work
Canada’s labour market stagnated again in June. Employment edged up by only 7,000 as the working-age population grew by 30,000. In response to this job shortage, 17,000…
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Union Density and Unemployment
A major part of Hudak and the right wing’s argument for “right to work” laws is that weaker unions will bring more jobs. In fact,…
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800,000 Years
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its 35th session recently in Geneva, on the northern shore of Lac Leman. Across the water from…
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