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Pharmacare is now law in Canada, but negotiations with provinces could slow progress
Monday, March 24th, 2025
Pharmacare could have been implemented nationally, like it was for the Canadian Dental Care Plan, offering federal coverage for essential medications like contraceptives and diabetes medications, while insurers and provincial plans cover the rest. This would have been a simple approach that would have allowed for future changes, and could have been implemented by provinces much like vaccines are — paid for using people’s provincial health numbers, sidestepping the difficulty of enrolling people in a new plan.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical
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How the resource boom is transforming our economy
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Dec. 20, 2011
The Canadian economy has undergone a fairly profound shift over the past 10 years… we are starting to see… (that) exploitation of natural resources leads to a decline in the manufacturing sector… Ontario, the province most reliant on manufacturing, is now the second largest recipient of federal equalization payments… We should use some of the proceeds of non-renewable natural resources development to foster growth in our truly renewable resource industries — such as information technology and life sciences.
Tags: economy, standard of living
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