Ontario Liberals helped hospitals hide embarrassing information: critics
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
May 5, 2011
Critics say Ontario’s Liberals are getting more secretive, despite their claims of making government more open and transparent. Liberals on the finance committee used their majority Thursday to exempt hospitals from the freedom of information law, an exemption they had been buried deep in the 2011 provincial budget. Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition, a patient advocacy group… calls it “the hospital secrecy clause” because it’s so broad it amounts to a blanket exemption that will let hospitals hide embarrassing information.
Tags: budget, Health, participation, rights
Posted in Governance Debates | 1 Comment »
Ex-PM urges Ottawa to beef up anti-poverty measures
Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Feb 17, 2011
The federal government has been so preoccupied with fiscal restraint and the fallout from the financial crisis that it has let domestic poverty slide off the national agenda, says former prime minister Joe Clark… But he…is encouraged by signs that parliamentarians of all stripes recognize there is a national problem that needs to be tackled. For proof, he points to a recent report on poverty from the all-party House of Commons human resources committee… while all parties agree that reducing poverty is important, they have all appended notes to the report stating their disagreement about how.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario professors worried that quality of education is dropping
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Sep. 13, 2010
An analysis of a survey of faculty and librarians also cites larger classes and the cancellation of programs for their perception that the quality of post-secondary education, particularly at the undergraduate level, is falling… a tendency to replace retiring or full-time faculty with part-time or contract help is also impacting how professors and students interact, the survey indicates.
Tags: budget
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