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Public health care advocates support targeted federal spending boosts for provinces
Friday, February 4th, 2022
Public health advocates are calling for federal health care dollars for the provinces and territories to come with strings attached, countering the demands for more unconditional federal dollars from provincial and territorial leaders… “The simple reality is, handing out blank cheques to Conservative premiers won’t fix nursing shortages, repair long-term care, provide better mental health services or implement pharmacare”
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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‘Alternative budget’ tackles social and ecological determinants of health
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
the AFB lays out a plan to ensure health equity and well-being for all by, among other things: Connecting the dots between the social and ecological determinants of health—things like income, working conditions, a clean environment—and their impact on health outcomes… Expanding the public health care system to include pharmacare, a national mental health program, a national dental care plan, and 10 paid sick days. Developing national standards for virtual care…
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Doug Ford is the only premier who has yet to sign Ottawa’s $10-a-day child-care deal. He’s right to push back
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Ontario wants the feds to either give it more money, or acknowledge the care it already provides in full-day kindergarten, which costs the province $3.6 billion annually… It makes no sense that Ontario’s success in providing early learning and child care to the vast majority of four-year-olds through full-day kindergarten isn’t included, because excluding it makes meeting federal access targets unachievable.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, jurisdiction, tax
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Budget outlook: $5 billion in annual tax cuts weaken Ontario’s case for federal dollars
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
“In the months ahead, we can expect Premier Ford to ramp up his calls for more federal funding, especially for health care. He is not strengthening his case by giving away $5 billion each year.” … A better approach would be to chart a course to restore provincial revenues through an ambitious program of progressive taxation
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After decades of delay, national child-care plan proves an ambitious social agenda is possible
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
… now that it’s clear a national child-care system is politically viable, it will be up to the Trudeau government to ensure that the one it’s started to build is strong — and public. The success of Scandinavian-style child care stems from the fact that it is a truly public system — like our school system — with no place for private profit-making, which leads to cutting corners on staff and resources.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, privatization
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What do we want our health-care system to do, and how much are we willing to pay?
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
In late 2019, the Ontario Hospital Association published a report touting the sector’s history of efficiency while warning that the efficiencies had come at a cost. It noted that, if Ontario funded its hospital system just to the level of the Canadian average, that would cost another $4 billion annually. But almost all Canadian provinces have relatively few beds per capita compared with other wealthy countries…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Canadians with disabilities fell through the cracks in the pandemic response. Here’s what needs to change as Omicron surges
Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
… living with a disability is one minority group that anyone can join. Disability Without Poverty is led by people with disabilities and came about around the end of 2020 in response to gaps in how the government served their communities during the pandemic and to push for a national disability benefit, which has been slowly moving through Parliament and would provide support besides existing provincial programs.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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… here’s what you need to know about the $40B child welfare agreements
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
After the graves of children who died in Indian Residential Schools were found, countless Canadians stood in solidarity with Indigenous communities and demanded the government not repeat mistakes of the past… public support will be needed more than ever to ensure that the spirit of the agreement is respected and translated into meaningful change for First Nations children.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Laurentian battle suggests fight for Canada’s rural higher education
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
… the hardship created by that lost public investment has fallen heaviest on northern institutions such as Laurentian. That’s because the northern population is less able to afford higher tuition… and its remote location makes its institutions relatively less attractive to outsiders – including the foreign students whose tuition increasingly subsidises Canadian higher education…
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Ottawa releases early details of landmark $40B First Nations child welfare agreement
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
The non-binding agreement sets aside $20 billion for compensation and $20 billion for long-term reform of the on-reserve child welfare system… The parties have until March 31 to finalize the agreement… The $20 billion dedicated to long-term reform of the child welfare system will be distributed over a period of five years… “Today is about a plan for the future, with First Nations defining and determining a path forward grounded in our rights and the common goal to have our children succeed,”
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