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Thursday, March 31st, 2022
… focusing on alternatives to institutional long-term care such as improvements to homecare and community-living supports can help reduce costs (in addition to benefiting seniors). Improving Canadians’ overall health and controlling cost pressures will require substantial reform, with a renewed focus on good health promotion in lieu of the historic overemphasis on treating illness.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, mental Health
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Thursday, March 31st, 2022
… Health Minister Christine Elliott said the Ford government was “opening up pediatric surgeries, cancer screenings, making sure that we can let independent health facilities operate private hospitals…” … For supporters of public health care, the June 2 Ontario election may be the most important in a generation. Indeed, Ford’s drive to further privatize health care while continuing to underfund the public system and underpay health-care workers should be the top campaign issue.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
If passed, the Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness Act, 2022 would see workers in long-term care and community care continue to receive a raise of $3 per hour while workers in public hospitals will keep their $2 per hour bump… The government had been extending the measure for months at a time throughout the pandemic. Also included in the legislation is a commitment to recruiting and retaining more doctors, nurses and PSWs by way of a $142 million investment through the “Learn and Stay” grant.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
The government isn’t just getting bigger. It’s getting bigger specifically in the areas where costs are most likely to grow over the long-term… National child care, having been implemented, stands a fair chance of being permanent now. And COVID-19 has spurred even penny-pinching provinces like Ontario to commit to substantial health-care capacity expansions.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Sean Speer, former economic adviser to Stephen Harper, wrote in The Hub in February, “We’ve gone from every major political party supportive of balanced budgets as recently as 10 years ago to today’s new multi-partisan consensus in favour of larger and longer deficits. Something obviously changed.”… historians may point to the moment last week when Canada’s social-safety net was significantly, and quite possibly, permanently expanded.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
If the plan rolls out as described, it will improve early education for kids, cut costs for families at a time when they are badly pressed, and give the economy a boost by making it easier for women to participate fully in the workforce… All that being said, it’s still true that the Ontario deal is not all it could be. And, indeed, in some ways it is less than advertised… All this will be worked out in the years ahead.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
The NDP will not move a vote of non-confidence, nor vote for a non-confidence motion during the term of the arrangement; Parties agree on the importance of parliamentary scrutiny and the work done by MPs at committees; Meetings of party leaders at least once per quarter, as well as regular meetings of House leaders and whips… to identify priority bills to expedite through the House of Commons… Parties agree to prioritize [the following]…
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, pharmaceutical, rights, standard of living, tax, women
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
The deal, known as confidence-and-supply agreement, would see the NDP support the minority Liberals in upcoming confidence votes, like federal budgets, in exchange for NDP-friendly measures… both parties identified shared policy objectives, including tackling climate change, advancing reconciliation, and delivering a “fairer tax system” for the middle class… Dental care, according to sources in both parties, is the big measure that Canadians will feel almost immediately.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
The new seats will be broken down into 160 undergraduate seats and 295 postgraduate seats… this marks the largest expansion of undergraduate and postgraduate education in over a decade… in part, as a solution to a significant backlog of medical procedures in Ontario created by the pandemic… [which] has created a backlog of more than 21 million patient services, such as MRIs and cancer screenings, that may take years to clear.
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