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  • Paul Leduc Browne

    D.Phil

  • Medicare being undermined by privatization

    What’s wrong with privatizing health care? Plenty. That’s the blunt conclusion of Health Care, Limited, a new synthesis report on the state of Canada’s health care system, prepared for the Council of Canadians by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Its conclusion? “Medicare can either be preserved or privatized. It…

  • La privatisation mine l’assurance-maladie

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas avec la privatisation des soins de santé? Bien des choses. C’est la conclusion tranchante des auteurs du rapport sur les soins de santé intitulé Health Care, Limited, un nouveau rapport de synthèse sur l’état du système de soins de…

  • Fast Facts: The Gaslighting of Manitobans in Health Care

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on June 25, 2019 The health care overhaul has been well-documented in the media, and routinely questioned in the Legislative Assembly, yet transparency and accountability are lacking. In fact, our government has embarked on a communication strategy that can only be explained as…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD

    A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022 Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of its training program upon the breakdown of funding negotiations with the Provincial Government. BUILD (Building Urban Industries for Local Development) is a social enterprise. Its…

  • The Great Bear Rainforest – Carbon Store or Carbon Story?

    The provincial government, First Nations and environmental organizations alike have all hailed it as an ecological triumph and a shining beacon of a new economic order based on conservation principles. Yet when it comes to talking openly about one of the hallmarks of that emerging economy – a project that…

  • Hospital worker, face not shown, bending towards a patient

    Rapport sur les travailleurs racialisés et autochtones dans des emplois à risque d’infection par la COVID-19

    TORONTO—Selon un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), les travailleurs autochtones et racialisés ont été plus nombreux, tout au long de la pandémie, à occuper des emplois les mettant en contact étroit avec d’autres personnes, ce qui a augmenté leur risque d’infection par la COVID-19. Intitulé Un…

  • The Harper Government’s Record on Medicare

    Canadian Medicare faces growing threats across the country. Many patients using private, for-profit clinics find themselves paying out of pocket for services covered by Medicare. Murial Schoof was required to pay more than $6,000 for sinus surgery at B.C.’s for-profit False Creek Surgery Centre. Court documents state that her physician…

  • Drummond, Deconstructed

    In the Commission report that bears his name, and in all of his media appearances since its release, Banker Don Drummond has ably played the disinterested expert, taking no pleasure in sharing the “gloomy message” he has for Ontario. From the way most TV hosts and journalists have rushed forward…

  • BC is flush. It’s time for more robust investment in the common good.

    Can BC afford to make major new public investments to address crises in housing, climate change, health care, child care and toxic drugs, among others? The simple answer is yes, can we ever.  A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ national office shows that despite dire predictions…

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    Whose wealth is it anyway? BC’s top 10 billionaires and the rest of us

    Economic inequality has exploded in recent decades—globally, in Canada and here in BC. Much of our concern about inequality has focused on the growth of extreme disparities between the incomes of the very rich and those of us on the middle and lower rungs of the income ladder. But there’s…

  • Contracting Out: Enough to make you sick

    There is now an accumulation of evidence, both international and domestic, that contracting out is good — but only if you happen to own shares in MDS, Sodexho, LifeLabs, Compass, Aramark or any number of other piggybackers. Unfortunately, if you are merely a patient, taxpayer and/or hospital worker you are…