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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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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
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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.
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Conçu pour échouer: La crise financière croissante dans le secteur hospitalier de l’Ontario
La crise financière croissante dans le secteur hospitalier de l’Ontario nuit aux patient(e)s et aux collectivités
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Pharmacare costing: How to make universal, single-payer pharmacare work for households and employers
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Sharing the pharmacare wealth
A progressively funded universal drug plan could save families hundreds of dollars a year, says new report READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa — A federally funded universal national pharmacare plan could create large net savings for Canadians, up to $600 per household a year, but just who benefits depends…
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Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites
For years, Manitoba’s network of community organizations and public health and harm reduction experts have made the case for the introduction of supervised consumption sites in Manitoba. There are evidence-based models of care that will work for Manitoba. In February of 2022, the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network issued a comprehensive…
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Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away?
BC Hydro knew 30 years before it started building the Site C dam that its chosen location for the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history had big problems. In fact, by the 1980s, BC Hydro had done tests showing that the ground at Site C had…
