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Ford promised to fix hallway medicine. But it’s getting worse
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
… the Ford government has wasted more than a year when it had the power to do something about it… what we already know are the fixes to hallway medicine: more home-care services and long-term care beds… This past June was the worst June on record for hospital overcrowding since the province began collecting statistics more than a decade ago.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Make no mistake: elections do make a difference
Saturday, September 14th, 2019
… four big areas: Technology and the nature of work… Achieving some kind of stability amid the storm requires innovative approaches to education, training and social programs / Sharing the benefits of prosperity… individuals, indeed entire sectors of the new economy, aren’t paying their share / … alliances… As a trading nation, that’s of vital concern to Canada. Jobs are at stake. / Climate change and energy…
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Ford’s slogans aren’t fixing health care
Sunday, September 8th, 2019
This past June was the worst June on record for hospital overcrowding since the province began collecting statistics in 2008 to track so-called “hallway medicine.” … the immediate needs of Ontario’s home care system, long-term care homes and hospitals are largely being ignored while the government focuses on a much-publicized but little-understood overhaul of health care.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Innovative dementia care models show the way forward
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
… we can and should think about how to bring… core principles — a life with some purpose, individualized care and more choice — into our long-term care industry writ large… Long-term care homes operate in a provincial system that focuses them on tasks and regulatory compliance rather than the broader health and happiness of residents.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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It’s time to move past ‘fake news’
Sunday, September 1st, 2019
“Critical thinking doesn’t mean we disparage everything; it means we try to distinguish between claims with evidence and those without,” he said. There is plenty of available material for arming ourselves against disinformation. Mustering the will to do so should be easy when the stakes are considered. History shows that trusting in falsehood can have dire, even catastrophic consequences.
Tags: globalization, ideology, participation
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Internet access for all should be a promise made by all political parties in the upcoming federal election.
Friday, August 23rd, 2019
this country once recognized that the telephone was an essential service and made sure it was affordable. And the CRTC has even mandated that companies provide so-called “skinny,” affordable cable packages for low-income families. Now it’s time to make sure all Canadians are able to connect to the internet.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Ford’s fake news machine should be closed
Monday, August 19th, 2019
Instead of recognizing that distributing fake news reports on social media in an attempt to fool the public is an affront to democracy, the Progressive Conservative government is apparently reconsidering ONN’s usefulness because it is, ahem, a failure… if ONN is shut down it shouldn’t be because the PC party’s communications specialists now deem it a liability. It should be because it’s an affront to the citizens the government was elected to represent and a misuse of their tax dollars.
Tags: budget, ideology
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Canada should have a federal minimum wage
Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
Last year the federal government passed legislation that… will improve job security for federally regulated workers through scheduling rights, equal pay for temporary employment agency workers and protections against contract flipping that lower wages. Now it’s time for the next step: a decent minimum wage.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Finally, the Liberals are taking a step toward pharmacare
Monday, August 12th, 2019
The fact is, patients in countries with universal pharmacare have not seen a reduction in accessibility to new drugs. And it beggars belief that pharmaceutical companies would not conduct research to create new drugs that could earn them billions just because wee Canada introduces a pharmacare program.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Ontario must fund the fixes to long-term care homes
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Ford’s administration has pumped up the provincial deficit and fears of it to such heights that it makes spending money seem like a failure of government rather than a proper and necessary response to public need… there’s no excuse for the Ford government to delay concrete improvement by claiming the whole system needs to be revamped… Changes designed to prevent another healthcare serial killer also provide a path to improve the quality of life in these homes.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, housing, ideology, standard of living
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