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  • Polling on taxes – response to a critic

    On November 29, the CCPA released an opinion research study led by myself and Randy Galawan called Beyond the 1%: What British Columbians think about taxes, inequality and public services. The study involved an extensive online survey (poll) of a broad sample of British Columbians, conducted by Environics Research, and…

  • The Attack on Organics

    Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus on what can only be called an attempt to trash organic food and organic farming – an attempt that, as we shall see, fits into a larger agenda.…

  • Fast Facts: Valley of Despair in Manitoba Health Care

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 8, 2019 The overhaul of Manitoba’s health care system has been met with repeated calls to slow down from those on the front lines of care. The consistent and persistent stories from patients and front line workers alike detailing chaos and upheaval…

  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    Ontario Has Options

    Alternative fiscal paths for the 2019 budget Download 538.93 KB 19 pages The Progressive Conservatives are using financial fearmongering as a cover for cutting funding for public services. This paper outlines two alternative fiscal paths that maintain and enhance services while reducing Ontario’s deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio. Both alternative budget…

  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    ‘Ontario Has Options’ for Budget 2019

    Report outlines how province can maintain services while reducing the deficit CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—A new report released today shows the Ontario government has options that would allow it to reduce the provincial deficit while maintaining and enhancing public services, as long as the province begins…

  • Book review – Just cool it! The climate crisis and what we can do

    The following is a review of Just cool it! The climate crisis and what we can do by David Suzuki and Ian Hanington, published by Greystone Books/David Suzuki Institute. Two passages in the introduction to this book encapsulate the situation that confronts us as the effects of global warming become more serious every…

  • Evidence is in: privately funded health care doesn’t reduce wait times

    Current public dialogue is full of questions about what kind of innovation or “revamping” the health system needs. In this context, as a physician, I am compelled to apply principles of evidence-based practice to the public vs. private debate: Will Brian Day’s plan to expand privately funded health care in…

  • March 2004: Tackling Our Worst Drug Addiction

    Big Pharma’s hold on our health care system must be broken Parliament’s Standing Committee on Health has identified many important and disturbing issues related to prescription drugs in Canada, including the rising costs, the review and control of prices, the approval of new drugs, the monitoring of adverse effects and…

  • December 2007: No Excuse For Denying Drug Coverage

    It’s time to end Canadians’ long wait for Pharmacare Canadians have been waiting for Pharmacare since the early 1960s when it was proposed by the Royal Commission on Health Care. However, despite repeated promises in the ensuing decades from the National Forum on Health and even the Liberal party itself…

  • Uber No Solution for Winnipeg

    Analysis of taxi and transport Conservative forces in the provincial legislature and at Winnipeg City Hall are combining to enable ride-sharing services such as Uber and allow its introduction into the Winnipeg market. Acting on recommendations of the December 2016 report prepared by accounting firm Myers, Norris, Penny (MNP) on…

  • From disenfranchised to revitalized: Ten proposals to set our forests and BC’s rural communities on a new course

    Fort Nelson and Merritt lie at two geographical extremes, the former perched in the northeast corner near some of British Columbia’s biggest natural gas plays, the latter located deep in the province’s southwest, near rolling dry hills that are home to BC’s biggest ranches. It takes nearly 15 hours by…

  • July 2007: The Fateful Summer of ’62

    Medicare’s foes fail to stop its birth in Saskatchewan This is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of national public health care in Canada, with the passage of the Canada Health Act in 1967. But Medicare was actually born five years earlier, in 1962, when the first public health care…