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  • Canada’s federal government abandons national pharmacare

    There will be no new federal funding for pharmacare. Provinces and territories will have to go it alone.

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    Busting neoliberal myths about pharmacare in Canada

    Free market think tanks continue to spread myths about universal pharmacare, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary

    Pharmacare is in the news again. The CD Howe Institute—an important neoliberal think tank—has just released a report based on a conference it hosted on the subject. Unsurprisingly, the report advocates for a “fill-in-the-gaps” approach to prescription drug coverage. In other words, to keep our present private-public mix of drug…

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    Most provinces are refusing hundreds of millions in federal pharmacare funding 

    As provincial health care systems are under increasing financial strain, why are governments refusing cash infusions for expanded services?

    Provinces and territories that have not joined the new national universal pharmacare program are missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in potential federal funding for cash-strapped public health care services.

  • Improving primary health care access: Lessons from Canada and Scotland

    It’s the foundation of the health care system, but the struggle to access primary care across Canada has become acute

  • Lifting the Bottom, Building a Fair Economy for All Workers in Nova Scotia

    The Nova Scotia government has announced that employers will have to pay minimum wage workers 50 cents more per hour in 2026, with a 25-cent increase effective April 1 and another 25-cent increase in October. The government is following the legislated requirement and recommendation of the Minimum Wage Review Committee…

  • Leave the patchwork for the quilts: The case for national pharmacare

    FEBRUARY 2, 2015 The Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) was founded in 1979 as a public advocacy organization dedicated to the preservation and improvement of medicare. It brings together organizations representing nurses, health care workers, seniors, churches, trade unions, anti-poverty groups and women, as well as affiliated coalitions in nine provinces…

  • What cuts to insect scientists tell us about federal austerity in Canada

    The federal government is sacrificing vital scientific capacity for ideological reasons—and hamstringing their own policymaking ability in the process

  • Soft rock and a soft touch

    Trove of FOI documents sheds new light on lax regulation of troubled Site C dam It was the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting for a box of Timbits and a Double-Double at the Tim Hortons’ drive thru.  In the space of just hours on a single day in June 2020, the…

  • Living the high life: A record-breaking year for CEO pay in Canada

    By 9:23 a.m. on January 2, 2025 Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had made what the average worker will make all year

  • Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems

    When we crunch the numbers, we don’t see a system bloated by high costs. And when we look at comparison countries, we see that budget cuts and falling revenue go hand-in-hand

    There’s a common narrative about why Canada Post is in such bad shape—the company’s financial difficulties lie in excessive spending, and that the decline of letter-mail has made Canada Post too costly and wasteful to operate in the digital age. Looking at the plans put forward by the federal government…

  • Federal budget makes inroads into dental care; Missed opportunity on pharmacare and long-term care

    There’s room to go bolder on climate change, housing, EI, the care economy, taxes READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA —Today’s federal commitment to create a national dental care program will help millions of Canadians, but many key areas like long-term care and pharmacare are missing in action, says Canadian…

  • Pharmacare costing: How to make universal, single-payer pharmacare work for households and employers

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