Posts Tagged ‘Health’
Where do the major parties stand on family and child care?
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Besides the rising cost of housing, child care fees are a major source of financial pain… child care often costs another rent- or mortgage-sized payment… The rates of individuals diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and autism spectrum disorder continue to edge higher… Several of the major parties have pledged to support families caring for individuals with disabilities, but to date, their promises have largely been “piecemeal,” falling far short of the concerted, large-scale efforts that are needed..
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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The tax cuts you might vote for, but might not notice
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
Would someone earning over $60,000 notice that they got another $420 a year by 2023 through the Conservative Party’s Universal Tax Cut? … if someone handed you $420 in 2023, you’d notice. But that’s not how this tax cut is going to be delivered. It’ll be incremental… Surely there must be a better way to spend over $5.5 billion a year. Couldn’t this money be better spent on healthcare, housing, infrastructure, and/or paying down the deficit?
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, tax
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Civil servants get the Rolls Royce of pharmacare while party leaders can’t even muster a decent plan
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
… opinion polls show most Canadians do support a national insurance scheme for prescription drugs. Will election promises bring the benefits Canadians need?… Unless whoever forms the federal government after the election provides: adequate resources for good-quality national pharmacare, a guarantee of long-term funding, and a roadmap for integrating it with existing provincial programs, Canadians hoping for improved access to medicines are unlikely to be satisfied.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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First and foremost, the homeless need housing
Monday, October 14th, 2019
Despite some notable success stories, most people don’t magically get better when housing is available… people with severe mental-health issues, substance-use disorders and the other illnesses and social challenges that come along with them need a lot of support… Housing first is a way of saying we haven’t given up on people and on the belief that homelessness can be, if not eliminated, at least managed more effectively and humanely.
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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A primer on Indigenous issues and the pledges in this election
Monday, October 14th, 2019
Indigeneity is intrinsically linked to the environment, and vice versa… One of the issues at the forefront of Indigenous health and wellness and the all-too-frequent inequities in care is the lack of clean, safe drinking water in many communities… Mental health is also a major issue: the suicide rate among Indigenous youth is five to seven times higher than among non-Indigenous youth… Indigenous children are still falling through jurisdictional cracks, and… equitable care should involve [Jordan’s] principle being expanded to family services, education and even the justice system.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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The Affordability Crisis and the 2019 Election
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Canadians have a general feeling of ‘affordability anxiety’ leading into the federal election. For this reason, the Broadbent Institute has created a series of fact sheets that look into three major issues effecting affordability — housing, healthcare and taxes, during the federal election… each fact sheet will include information on a topic as it relates to affordability and the commitments and/or solutions each party has put forward.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, housing, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Christine Elliott hires special adviser to work with communities on Ontario public health merge
Friday, October 11th, 2019
TheGlobeandMail.com – Canada October 9, 2019. Jeff Gray, Queen’s Park Reporter Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott is hiring a special adviser to consult municipalities and local health officials before giving the green light to controversial plans to merge the province’s public-health units. Jim Pine, the chief administrative officer of the County of Hastings in […]
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction
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The neutering of Doug Ford
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Ford has reversed his stand on sex-ed, on a French-language university, on cuts to social services, such as a child benefit that pays for essentials like diapers and food for children in vulnerable families, on cuts to children’s aid societies and more. Ford also caved in during the last-minute contract negotiations with the 55,000 school support staffers, who had threatened to strike this week.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, poverty, youth
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There are more doctors that are women, but gender equity remains elusive
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
… until we better support women in their roles as mothers and physicians, gender equality in medicine will remain elusive and too much of the money and effort we put into training doctors will be lost because we refuse to acknowledge that medicine is no longer a boy’s club.
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, women
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Where is the ‘how’ in all of the federal election policy promises?
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
No voter expects every detail regarding the implementation of a new proposal to anticipate every twist and turn of how events might unfold… But… the judgment, balance, capacity and relevant experience of those seeking to hold the highest elected office in the country are defogged when there is more robust disclosure on how they intend to put into effect the promises they have been selling.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, poverty
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