Search results for “node/Hospital Wait Times”

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Is another Charter challenge on BC labour rights waiting in the wings?

    While the BC government mulls over the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision that Bill 29 is unconstitutional (because it infringes on health care workers’ right to collective bargaining), it should also consider the constitutionality of another piece of labour legislation passed in 2002. Although not yet challenged before the courts,…

  • Climate Justice Project
    Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Industry gets credits, schoolyards get stumps

    Picture a savvy land developer who has just purchased 1,000 acres of forestland on a city’s outskirts. He plans to cut most of the trees down to build hundreds of new houses, but he wants to be able to market his “green” credentials. So he lights on a plan. In…

  • Submission to the Minister of Finance Government of Manitoba On the 2002-2003 Provincial Budget

    Thank you for the opportunity to present our views on the province’s fiscal situation and the upcoming provincial budget. Once again this year we are preparing an Alternative Provincial Budget, which will be finalized and released in the months ahead. Context In last year’s Alternative Provincial Budget we ran a…

  • Shrouded in Secrecy

    The Queen Elizabeth II Hospital Redevelopment and the Privatization of Nova Scotia’s Health Care Infrastructure Download 1.47 MB55 pages This report provides a critical examination of the public-private partnership (P3) model proposed for the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Hospital Redevelopment, and details what little is known of the process thus…

  • Can cooperatives humanize the economy?

    Book Review of Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital, by John Restakis, New Society Publishers, 2010. The economy is about business, right? Sure, we have a dynamic mixed economy, and most people support decent social programs and government intervention to protect the environment or to improve living…

  • Seniors Care

    Beyond the economy: Where are BC’s major parties on health care and our aging population?

    We have been surprised, to say the least, at the lack of public discourse around health care during this election period. As a top-of-mind issue for British Columbians, you’d think it would be as central as the always large and looming economy. So what are the burning issues in health…

  • Funding Hospital Infrastructure

    Why P3s Don’t Work, and What Will Download 1.1 MB13 pages

  • Economic insecurity touches seniors’ lives in profound ways

    In the spring of 2016, the CCPA’s Terra Poirier and photographer Caelie Frampton met with three local seniors to document their lived experience of poverty and inequality. The images and stories of these women paint a sobering picture of what life is like when the hardships of living with a…

  • What role will employment insurance play in a Canada’s COVID-19 recovery?

    The federal government announced on July 31, 2020 plans to transition CERB recipients who’ve reached the end of their eligibility period to a reformed employment insurance program. Prime Minister Trudeau assured CERB recipients that no one will be left behind during this transition. The Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) Recovery Plan…

  • December 2004: Time and Tide Wait for Progressive Politicians

    Only political fossils would still prefer fossil fuels to tidal power It looks as though Paul Martin is leaning toward supporting B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell’s campaign to lift the federal ban on drilling for oil in the Pacific Coast sea bed. In his pre-election cabinet shuffle, Martin dumped David Anderson…

  • 2024 provincial budget analysis

    BC Budget: Big Challenges—Small Steps

    The provincial budget stands up to austerity pressures but falls short on meeting urgent challenges facing the people of BC.

  • Part II: The only thing certain about COVID-19 is uncertainty

    Read Part One of Michele and Chandra’s piece here. What does this mean for protecting public health? In order to have a hope of containing the virus, we need to know as quickly as possible who actually has the virus and who they in turn might have exposed. But as…