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Andrew Longhurst
Andrew Longhurst is a senior researcher and political economist, with a focus on health policy, at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work has been published in academic journals and by research institutes, including Canadian Journal on Aging, Political Geography, the CCPA, and the Parkland Institute.
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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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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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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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Spring economic update wraps up old ideas as new projects
Empowered with a majority government and new resource revenue, the feds are doing more of the same
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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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Three big ideas for Canada’s federal fiscal update
Parental leave and health care should be a priority, while implementing a windfall tax on oil profiteers of the war on Iran
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Public funding for B.C.’s private schools is indefensible
Public school funding, as a share of GDP, is declining. Why is the provincial government still funding private schools?
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The Alberta government legislates two-tier health care, again
On April 13, the Alberta government introduced legislation to become the first province that creates a “me first” legal framework for patients to pay privately…
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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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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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