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Alternative Federal Budget Recovery Plan
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Among the key issues in the AFB Recovery Plan requiring immediate action: implement universal public child care so people can get back to work, reform employment insurance, strengthen safeguards for public health, decarbonize the economy, and tackle the gender, racial, and income inequality that COVID-19 has further exposed.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Why Doug Ford’s to blame for health-care mess
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Health experts from such groups as the Ontario Health Coalition, Ontario Nurses Association and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario constantly monitor what Ford is doing — and what they find is ugly. Here are a few of the measures Ford has imposed over the past year that negatively impact health care:
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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ER doctors gave cellphones to their patients and results were stunning
Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
COVID-19 has brought homelessness, social isolation, poverty, and other determinants of health into sharp focus. We think putting digital equity at the centre of care helps address urgent health imperatives, provide some human dignity, and be the first step toward improving the health and wellness of the most marginalized in our society.
Tags: disabilities, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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First Canadian clinical trial of any COVID-19 vaccine is launched in Quebec City
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
On Monday, six volunteers rolled up their sleeves to receive shots at a study site operated by Syneos Health in Quebec City, officially launching the first Canadian clinical trial of any COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine, developed by Medicago Inc., a Quebec biopharmaceutical company, has shown positive results in animal studies. But this is its first test in humans.
Tags: Health, pharmaceutical
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Ottawa should listen to police chiefs. Drug use is a health care problem, not a crime
Monday, July 13th, 2020
There is a cresting wave of support for decriminalization, and its benefits for society. 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy backed decriminalization… Canadian health officials have also long worked towards these changes… Decriminalization and a safe supply (prescribed by doctors, to address the deadly toxicity of street opioids) were also key recommendations last year from an all-party House of Commons health committee.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Tax us. Tax us. Tax us. Millionaires beg to be taxed more to help COVID relief
Monday, July 13th, 2020
Calling themselves the Millionaires for Humanity, more than 80 wealthy individuals… are petitioning for higher taxes on the rich to help pay for the billions in new government programs made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Today, we, the undersigned millionaires and billionaires, ask our governments to raise taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently.” … Charity isn’t the answer.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, tax
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Parents, trapped: Lack of child care could undermine economic recovery and hurt women, but the solution is expensive
Sunday, July 12th, 2020
In normal times, daycare is much like a throttle for the engine of the economy. Increase the supply of spaces, and more women are able to work. Productivity rises, household incomes grow and consumer spending ticks up.
But the coronavirus threatens to throw that dynamic into reverse. A mass exodus of women from the work force would be unprecedented in recent decades… an enormous chunk of economic activity is at risk
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Health, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Canada needs to start taking long-term care more seriously
Saturday, July 11th, 2020
There is a consensus developing among provincial politicians and advocates for senior citizens that only Ottawa can provide the funding needed to better train and better pay care workers… But if Ottawa is going to pony up, then it can and should set national standards.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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I was Stephen Harper’s criminal justice adviser. But I now think Canada should decriminalize drugs
Saturday, July 11th, 2020
Conservative politicians bear much blame for demonizing people who use drugs – derisively calling them “junkies” and “addicts” – opposing life-saving measures such as supervised drug-use sites and “safe supply,” and fearmongering for votes about drug decriminalization. Politicians must know that their action and inaction is continuing to cost lives. History will judge them for it.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, youth
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Police chiefs call on Ottawa to decriminalize simple drug possession
Friday, July 10th, 2020
The group, which includes the chiefs of most police forces in the country, said a shift in federal drug laws is urgently needed to divert these users away from the courts and into the hands of health care and social-service providers. This is a long-standing demand of activists, scientists and public-health officials from across the country… less than two Canadians die per day of homicide and we have 11 Canadians a day dying of overdose
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical
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