Posts Tagged ‘featured’
Claims of a doctor shortage oversimplifies the issues with health care
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Sustaining universal access to care will require governments to face the demographic reality driving medical demand; update revenues so financially secure boomers contribute in line with their costs; overhaul staffing incentives; and reinvest in the social and ecological foundations of health.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, tax
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Auditor’s report slams Ford government over health care
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Premier Doug Ford’s government is ailing on health care by failing to get more Ontarians a family doctor, ensure prompt appointments and oversee OHIP billings… “the ministry, in conjunction with Ontario Health, did not consistently have processes in place to plan and oversee programs and initiatives to improve patients’ access to primary care” the report said.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, standard of living
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I’ve studied housing for over 15 years. These Canadian towns are showing us how to fix the crisis
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Too often we frame housing simply as a question of how much we need and defer to the market to build it. Instead, we need to focus on what kind of housing and for whom… The crux of the problem is that housing currently serves two conflicting goals: as shelter and a human right for all; and a commodity from which to make money for some.
Tags: featured, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction
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Federal budget creates a massive educational opportunity for Doug Ford
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Ontario’s universities have the lowest per-student funding of any province in Canada… crumbling infrastructure and outdated instrumentation… reductions in support staff, early retirement incentives, and hiring freezes for new faculty. Such actions have resulted in Ontario having the worst student-teacher ratio of any province in the country. Moreover, larger class sizes, fewer teaching assistants, and stripped-down learning opportunities have quickly become the norm on many university campuses.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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How Mark Carney’s federal budget would impact your taxes, from automatic tax filing to axing luxury tax
Monday, November 10th, 2025
The 2025 federal budget proposes lowering the first marginal personal income tax rate to 14.5 per cent in 2025 and automatically filing taxes for 1 million low-income Canadians by 2027. First-time homebuyers could receive a GST rebate up to $50,000 on some new homes, while the Underused Housing Tax would be eliminated. The budget also proposes eliminating luxury taxes on some boats and aircraft
Tags: budget, economy, featured, jurisdiction, tax
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Update the Canada Health Act
Monday, November 10th, 2025
After four decades, Canadians have a clearer sense of the system’s strengths and weaknesses. And the pandemic underscored both the value of universal health care and the urgent need for modernization… many changes could be achieved through more efficient organization, not just more spending. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants can often provide high-quality primary care less expensively than physicians, while expanded roles for pharmacists or midwives could also achieve savings and relieve some of the workload falling solely to family doctors.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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If a mine is a nation-building project, why not universal pharmacare? Inside the big push to get Mark Carney behind it
Monday, October 27th, 2025
The type of pharmacare most advocates want to see the policy evolve into is a universal, single-payer model, where governments would foot the majority of prescription drug costs for all Canadians… tens of billions of dollars Canada shells out on prescription medications annually would be better spent within the country’s borders, bolstering domestic production capacity… The gaps exposed by COVID-19 — the procurement chaos, supply chain woes, equipment shortages and expiring oversupply — make some believe pharmacare holds the potential to strengthen Canada’s autonomy and security, too.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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The sheer gall of Stellantis’ caving to Trump shows Canada’s industrial economy is on the line. Here’s how we fight back
Sunday, October 19th, 2025
It’s no coincidence these 232 tariffs are aimed at every one of Canada’s high-tech success stories: auto, trucks, steel and other basic metals, soon to be joined by aerospace, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, industrial machinery and more… we must at all costs defend the successful high-tech industries we have — every one of which is now in Trump’s crosshairs.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, standard of living
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Mark Carney’s tax plan will lift more Canadians ‘above the poverty line,’ advocates say
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that starting in 2027, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would begin auto-filing tax returns for low-income Canadians, allowing them to simply confirm the information in a pre-filed tax return… The Canada Child Benefit, the GST credit and the Canada Disability Benefit are among several benefits that Canadians can only receive if they file a tax return.
Tags: featured, poverty, standard of living, tax
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When governments trample on our rights, the courts must be free to weigh in. Full stop
Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
Can courts still declare whether a law that’s subject to the notwithstanding clause is unconstitutional? Doing so would have no effect on the law’s operation as long as the notwithstanding clause applied, but as a judicial declaration, it would constitute an authoritative statement, alerting the press and general public to active government efforts to violate Canadians’ rights.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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