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Search results for “site/pharmacare”
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Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Health care
Bridge to independence
A budget that makes Canada stronger by committing to solidarity and dignity for all
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Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Gender equality
Bridge to independence
A budget that makes Canada stronger by committing to solidarity and dignity for all
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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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Ça ne va pas : Privatisation des interventions chirurgicales et diagnostiques en Ontario
Si la privatisation constituait une politique saine des soins de santé, alors la preuve appuierait cette orientation—mais ce n’est pas le cas
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Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Seniors’ care and long-term care
Bridge to independence
A budget that makes Canada stronger by committing to solidarity and dignity for all
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All in at the AI casino
The federal government is betting everything on an AI future that may never exist
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn’t good health policy
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Building our budget together? The limits of Nova Scotia’s “consultation”
Surely listening to the public in advance of the budget would be a good idea?
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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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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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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…
