Canada needs doctors – so why is the country forcing Canadian physicians into exile?
Friday, November 17th, 2023
Both the licensing exams and residency matching are areas that if modified can establish a more streamlined, simple and fair repatriation process. Provincial governments can also work with medical schools to cover salaries for residency slots and the related program expansion costs for medical disciplines in shortest supply.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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From ‘tough on crime’ to a new transformative vision for Canada’s justice system
Friday, September 29th, 2023
… compassionate, evidence-based policies… make us safer at a fraction of the cost of ineffective “tough on crime” approaches. We don’t have to let fear win. We don’t have to tolerate an ineffective status quo. There’s a better way and it involves a new transformative justice vision: to transform the trauma in our society, rather than continue to transmit it.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, economy, ideology, standard of living
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This is why you don’t have a family doctor
Monday, September 4th, 2023
The process of becoming a doctor in Canada is… entrusted to numerous ministries, universities, colleges, councils, professional organizations and accrediting agencies… In the absence of consolidated oversight for the final product, the sheer number of participants in the process makes it very difficult to achieve significant reform. We are, in fact, facing… an unwillingness to abandon previously successful practices.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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To fix Canada’s health care, a hard economic truth must be acknowledged
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
… a) when public health care was first rolled out, there were limited complex interventions available; b) what could be done was relatively inexpensive; and c) given shorter lifespans, there was simply less time for a patient to require the higher-cost care commensurate with advanced age. In that context, funding health care out of general tax revenues has become increasingly hard – and will eventually be unsustainable.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, standard of living, tax
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What would you rather have: Too many doctors, or too few?
Friday, August 18th, 2023
There’s more than just supply and demand… There is no perfect system. There is no getting around the need for incentives and management to discourage abuses and encourage good service… To save medicare, we must get the incentives right.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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A crisis of neglect: How society can help those with mental illness
Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
‘If you really want to make a difference, stop thinking about diagnosis and symptoms, start thinking about recovery… it’s people, place, and purpose. Social support, a decent environment with housing and food and things that help people to prosper, and people will have to have something to live for.’
Tags: featured, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty
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The premiers need to get serious about health care reform, not just funding
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
… the premiers need to commit to some semblance of a coherent, co-ordinated plan… What the health system needs right now is swift and collective action from the premiers in identifying problem areas and setting clear goals for longer-term changes. You can’t measure progress without targets and timelines. Nor can you have any accountability.
Tags: jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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The Ontario treaty deal is a game-changer for Indigenous rights
Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
The $10-billion settlement announced this week between the Robinson-Huron First Nations, Ontario and the federal government signals a tectonic shift in Indigenous-government relations… Major developments of the Ring of Fire mineral properties and other northern Ontario projects are slowed by the absence of agreements with First Nations. A new prosperity-sharing formula will be critical in breaking future logjams.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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A significant milestone in lifting people with disabilities out of poverty
Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
This is a significant milestone, potentially the most important addition to Canada’s social safety net since the Guaranteed Income Supplement for low-income seniors was introduced in 1967… The CDB is desperately needed. About one in five Canadians live with a physical, developmental or psychiatric disability… The new benefit should, in theory, lift more than 1.4 million Canadians living with disabilities out of poverty.
Tags: disabilities, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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What we can learn from 20 years of the Youth Criminal Justice Act
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
The passage of the YCJA has resulted in a 95-per-cent decline in youth custodial sentences, while youth carceral facilities have closed across the country… This incredible transformation happened because the YCJA emphasizes restraint at all levels of the criminal justice system, from police intervention to charging, detaining and sentencing, and by using “extrajudicial measures” to divert young people away from the traditional court system.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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