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  • Private clinics court challenge threatens health care for all Canadians: report

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—As early as November 2015, the British Columbia Supreme Court will begin hearing a challenge to the provincial Medicare Protection Act (MPA) that, if successful, will impact all Canadians in every province and territory, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy…

  • Seniors Care

    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 the calculation of hospital occupancy rates. Footnote 25 on page 18 indicated that hospital occupancy rates were calculated by dividing the number of hospital beds…

  • How (and how much) doctors are paid: why it matters

    How we pay doctors through our public health system is an important issue that receives little public scrutiny, despite the fact that physician compensation represents a significant share of the provincial budget and has been among the fastest-growing health care costs in recent years. A very useful analysis was conducted…

  • Fast Facts: Remembering Don Sullivan

    Don Sullivan was an environmentalist, best described as an ecosocialist, and a highly skilled political activist. He played a lead role in many environmental campaigns in Manitoba. He was the Director of the Boreal Forest Network. He played an important role as special advisor to the government of Manitoba in…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher COVID-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans

    What exactly is the logic behind sending Home Care workers to do shifts in personal care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic? The point of Home Care is to assist people who need help with a variety of physical, personal and health-related necessities in order to stay in their own homes…

  • Pay Gap in Manitoba – New Report Launched at Press Conference on April 27th, 2023.

    Winnipeg, Treaty One–A new report Tired of Waiting: Rectifying Manitoba’s Pay Gap published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is being launched at a press conference 10 AM CST, April 27, Rm 103, Union Centre, 275 Broadway, Winnipeg, Man. Women and racialized people were on the front lines of…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    The Unique Social Housing needs of Resettling Refugees

    War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet a web of service providers willing to assist them in this process. Some of these organizations assist resettling refugees in finding and maintaining housing, which…

  • Genuine solutions to health care wait-time problem lie in the public sector

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that there are public sector solutions to Canada’s wait list problems. While often touted, private for-profit clinics actually tend to make things worse. Author Dr. Michael Rachlis asserts that, instead of…

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    Opening the floodgates

    More than climate crisis behind last November’s rising waters, death and destruction; experts urge province to make course correction   First of Two Parts When Premier John Horgan declared a provincial state of emergency in the wake of last November’s horrific floods, landslides and deaths, he was quick to name the…

  • National Household Survey provides blurred look at housing

    This piece first appeared in the Globe and Mail’s online business feature, Economy Lab, here. Two findings stand out in the National Household Survey (NHS) data released Wednesday, both critical in this post-recession era of uncertainty: 1) A quarter of Canadian households spent 30 per cent or more of their pre-tax income…

  • Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?

    The BC government has rolled out a flurry of impressive measures to strengthen our public health care system over the past two years. Flying below the radar, though, is a new effort by for-profit corporations to push their way into BC’s health care system — and the Vancouver Coastal Health…

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    Seven immediate steps to reduce poverty while the government consults on a comprehensive poverty reduction plan

    Earlier this week, the BC government appointed an Advisory Forum on Poverty Reduction to provide expertise and assistance to the Minster of Social Development and Poverty Reduction in the development of a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy for BC. The 27 people named to the Forum represent communities across the province…