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Thousands descend on Queen’s Park to protest McGuinty budget
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
Apr 21 2012
More than 15,000 protesters from labour unions and community organizations across the province rallied outside Ontario’s Legislature Saturday afternoon to vent their fury over the minority Liberal government’s austerity-focused budget. “We’re sending a signal to Dalton McGuinty that the budget he’s introduced is grossly unfair”… “They need to step back. Touching pensions, it’s just not the right way to go”… “All we want to see is a little bit of fairness. The very least we can ask for is that the very top earners in Ontario put in a little bit more when times are tough.”
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, pensions, tax
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Toronto doctor worries budget cuts will affect poor patients the most
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Mar 27 2012
… for Bloch, a family physician and University of Toronto professor who founded Health Providers Against Poverty, the government’s austerity-focused agenda does a disservice to public health, especially for the poor… “I’m very concerned… I’m worried it’s a cut with a dull knife and it’s largely the people who live in poverty, especially the extreme end of poverty, who are impacted the most.”… he added that wider social service cuts recommended in the budget — freezing welfare and disability support payments, for example — will likely do enormous damage to his patients’ health in the short-term.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Privatization threatens public health care, Romanow warns
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Nov 30 2011
Romanow decried a “palpable momentum toward individualism, decentralization and privatization” in Canada. He gave the example of a “meanness of spirit . . . that somehow finds money to buy defibrillators for hockey arenas, but drags its feet about providing potable water to First Nations communities” — and said the government’s “so-called new thinking” misguidedly frames health care as a commodity rather than a right.
Tags: budget, Health, privatization
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