Posts Tagged ‘budget’
« Older Entries | Newer Entries »
Why healthy neighbourhoods are the antidote to gun crime
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
… the way to address those “roots” of violence is to invest directly in communities where those determinants — poverty, marginalization, a lack of economic opportunities and others — have contributed to making the problem of gun violence so persistent… Researchers today say that commitment to communities is still lacking.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, participation, poverty
Posted in Child & Family Policy Context | No Comments »
Ontario changing pharmacist payments to save government $436-million
Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Ontario has reached a tentative agreement with the province’s pharmacists that will see them take millions of dollars less in payments over the next half decade… It would also see the government pay pharmacists a flat fee for every patient receiving prescriptions in a long-term care home rather than paying for each individual prescription that’s issued… [and] scrap a $2 co-payment that long-term care residents currently pay on each prescription.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical
Posted in Health Delivery System | No Comments »
Med school needs more students, dean tells Sudbury chamber
Friday, October 25th, 2019
“Health care in Northern Ontario is in greater turmoil than it is in any other part of the province,” she said. “In some places, we’re one doctor away from a crisis. We’re one sub-specialist away from a crisis.” … One of her concerns is the cap on the number of students at NOSM. “Is it enough to have 64 physicians in a part of the province where the need is greater?” she asked. “It makes me crazy. We need to expand this medical school.”
Tags: budget, Health, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Can legal aid be improved while its budget is slashed? Ontario’s attorney general says yes
Friday, October 25th, 2019
“We’re not talking about doing more with less, we’re talking about doing things differently… how we can deliver service to more people, the vulnerable population, in a really different way… The cuts have meant that Legal Aid Ontario will generally no longer fund private criminal lawyers to handle bail hearings… As a result, duty counsel services have been reduced in other areas at courthouses.
Tags: budget, ideology, rights, standard of living
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | No Comments »
To improve health care, we need to plan our work force of the future
Friday, October 25th, 2019
We need to rethink our traditional approach of strictly controlling the number of health workers we educate and train and turn to oversupply, knowing that many will be wooed away… One in five nurses in Canada leaves their job each year, and the turnover costs are enormous… [We must] ensure jobs are meaningful, appropriate and, most of all, that there are people to fill the posts that are so essential to our care.
Tags: budget, globalization, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
Posted in Health Delivery System | No Comments »
University performance-based funding is bound to fail
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
… there is a strong call for a significant proportion of performance to be based on narrow labour-market outcomes, commercialization and economic imperatives… the collection of system-wide data is not a bad idea on its own… However… it runs the real danger of skewing university programs and perverting the very objectives it sets out to measure through over-emphasis and, frankly, “gaming” of one sort or another.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction
Posted in Education Delivery System | No Comments »
‘Innovative’ health clinic in Midland high school serves students and public
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
“The idea arose to house the health unit in a vacant wing of the school… The location had many benefits, including bringing health services close to students, sitting on a transit route and being close to a neighbourhood… Ten programs run from the clinic, including prenatal, immunizations, water sampling, sexual health, needle exchange, naloxone training, and substance abuse and prevention.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living, youth
Posted in Health Delivery System | No Comments »
A last-minute guide to what the federal parties are pitching
Monday, October 21st, 2019
Over the course of the election, federal parties have been making their pitch to Canadians on their plans for the environment, health care, affordability, the economy and plenty more…here’s what the parties are pitching:
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, tax
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
Should We Soak the Rich? You Bet!
Sunday, October 20th, 2019
As a society, instead of playing Robin Hood to smooth out the inequities, we’ve played the Sheriff of Nottingham. Lawrence Summers, the economist and former Treasury secretary, has calculated that if we had the same income distribution today as we had in 1979, the bottom 80 percent would have about an extra $1 trillion each year and the top 1 percent would have about $1 trillion less.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
Posted in Policy Context | No Comments »
Scheer, Ford and the lessons of Ontario
Saturday, October 19th, 2019
Ontario voters gave Ford their support when he warned of troubled government finances that needed a conservative touch to right the ship. They trusted him when he promised to put more money in their pockets and to cut government spending in ways they wouldn’t notice. We know how poorly that’s turned out, but Scheer is still hoping voters will buy those lines once again.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
Recent Comments