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Prescription drug prices are very likely to increase in Canada
Canada has a drug price problem, and it risks getting a lot worse in the near future. Canadian prices for patented drugs are already the…
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Mortality and health care privatization: A comparison between countries
Privatization is deadly. Canada needs to learn from other countries and focus on public health care instead.
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Ontario Fall Economic Statement: No help on the way
Last May, CCPA’s detailed analysis of the Ontario budget argued that it failed to address years-long funding shortfalls, leaving the province vulnerable to the economic…
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Budget fédéral alternatif 2026 : Santé
Ce que le gouvernement canadien devrait faire en matière de santé. Une véritable indépendance exige un nouveau modèle économique.
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Alternative federal budget 2026: Health care
What the Canadian government should do on health care. Because true independence needs a new economic model.
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More Action Needed on Racism in Manitoba’s Health Care System
Troubling new evidence of systemic racism in Manitoba’s emergency departments (ERs) was released this summer. Overall, the new Race, Ethnicity and Indigenous Identity (REI) data…
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Busting neoliberal myths about pharmacare in Canada
Pharmacare is in the news again. The CD Howe Institute—an important neoliberal think tank—has just released a report based on a conference it hosted on…
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We are health care workers. We’re already seeing the impacts of climate inaction
The summer of 2025 will be remembered in Canada as the year that wildfires threatened our health and our homes, from coast to coast to…
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Most provinces are refusing hundreds of millions in federal pharmacare funding
Provinces and territories that have not joined the new national universal pharmacare program are missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in potential federal…
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Hollowed out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies
Ontario’s hospitals are being privatized through the costly use of for-profit staffing agencies
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Canada desperately needs a public insulin manufacturer again
Insulin was discovered by four Canadians, who famously sold the patent for $1 each to the University of Toronto—enabling the public manufacture of the new…
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Money makes drug regulation go round at Health Canada
In one of the songs in the musical Cabaret, there’s a refrain that goes “Money makes the world go round”. That’s true in most areas,…
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