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5 reasons why private surgeries won’t shorten waits in the public system
After years of delay, Dr. Brian Day’s case against the BC Government is now being heard in BC Supreme Court. Day and his private for-profit Cambie Surgery Centre are challenging the parts of the BC Medicare Protection Act that prevent doctors and private clinics from directly billing patients for medically…
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Canada vs. Norway: The Petro Path Not Taken
Momentum is building across Canada on the need to develop a sustainable national energy strategy. On this front, Canada and Alberta, its main petro-province, has much to learn from another major petroleum producing and exporting country, Norway. Canada and Norway are advanced industrialized countries with highly developed political, bureaucratic and…
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Enbridge testimony from Josh Paterson
A guest post follows from Josh Paterson, who is formerly a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, and recently appointed Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Josh’s remarks are his own personal opinions. ********** Good evening. I’m happy to be here in unceded Coast Salish territories to address you…
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Fast Facts: The Thin Edge of a Wedge
Privatization of Lifeflight First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 2, 2019 When it comes to evaluating the “value for money” in air ambulance services, the safety of patients and staff should be a key factor. When the operators of the air ambulance are private companies, though, the bottom…
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Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of many countries, including Canada. Media reports through all platforms cover COVID-19 extensively, in fact there is not much else in the news these days. While…
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The Real Crisis in Medicare
Canada needs (and can afford) complete national health care Contrary to the alarm raised by Canada’s premiers, the Harper government’s abdication from its leadership role in health care does not constitute a crisis. Canada’s health care system has been under provincial jurisdiction since the Constitution Act, 1867, and the federal…
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20 years later: How corporations took over Canada’s health care system
Caring for Profit: How corporations are taking over Canada’s health care system was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and New Star Books nearly 20 years ago, shortly after the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in…
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Reality Check: Progress on child care in BC, 2012-2020
In the early days of the current BC election campaign child care took centre stage when NDP leader John Horgan recommitted his party to fully implement the $10aDay Plan1 if elected on October 24. Public discussion and commentary followed in the media and from other parties. Questions were raised about the…
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The extra-long logging haul
As forests shrink, drivers work 16-hour days to deliver single loads of logs to BC sawmills When Eugene Wilson started driving a logging truck 24 years ago, he worked out of the Bulkley valley community of Houston three hours west of Prince George. He recalls the trips as if they…
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The wrong question in the wrong forum
It didn’t take very much time at the joint federal-provincial environmental hearing into Site C, which started this week in Fort St. John, to realize that it is not the best forum to address the central issue underlying BC Hydro’s proposal to develop the $8 to $9 billion hydro project.…
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Wood wasted at BC logging sites would fill a cross-country truck convoy — twice
Costs include thousands of potential jobs, sharply higher CO2 emissions: report CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest industry finds that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of…
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