Posts Tagged ‘ideology’
Does the Canada Health Act require reinterpretation, or a more fundamental rethink?
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
The Canada Health Act clearly states that “physician services” and “hospital services” are covered by medicare. There is nothing about “physician-equivalent services.” … But, if some of the work of NPs, pharmacists and midwives is to be considered essential, what about psychologists, physiotherapists and other allied health professionals? And while we’re at it: Should everything doctors do be considered medically necessary and covered by medicare?
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Access to care: 5 principles for action on primary health-care teams
Friday, January 10th, 2025
… a “health home”…would guarantee every person access to a primary care team close to where they live. The Primary Care Action Team has announced its plans to achieve this goal within five years. A health home is the front door to the health system and includes a team of primary care providers that supports an individual’s health and wellness; co-ordinating care across the system and through every stage of their lives… based on where you live… just as you would have access to your local school.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Company men: CEO pay in 2023
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
Following two blistering years of all-time high compensation, Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs pocketed $13.2 million, on average, in 2023—the third biggest haul since we’ve been tracking CEO pay. On average, these 100 CEOs were paid 210 times more than the average worker’s wage in 2023—from its high of over 240 times more pay in the previous two years… This report notes several trends and busts key myths about CEO pay and their worth:
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Say what you want about Justin Trudeau — there’s still no arguing Canadians became wealthier while he was in power
Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
…the poverty rate… now nine per cent, [is] down from 14.5 per cent when he first took office… achieved in large part by Trudeau’s Canada Child Benefit, which has lifted as many as half a million children from poverty. Trudeau’s national daycare program has also helped, reducing monthly daycare expenses to $400 from about $2,000, dropping further to about $200 in the next two years… [and] introduction of limited denticare and pharmacare, a foundation for future governments to build on.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality
Thursday, December 26th, 2024
The perception of a worsening cost of living, combined with seeing Canada as significantly more unequal, is creating a perfect storm for a deteriorating sense of control in everyday life… This is a worrying trend for our collective psychological well-being. The most powerless people tend to be the most distressed and distrustful of others — two indicators that reflect the daily sense of alarm, hopelessness and suspicion that powerless Canadians may feel when thinking of the economy.
Tags: economy, ideology
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Unpaid labour: Why volunteers can’t sustain essential services
Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
ThePhilanthropist.ca – 2024/04 April 15, 2024. Joanne McKiernan There’s a shortage of meal-delivery volunteers, writes Volunteer Toronto’s Joanne McKiernan. The reality of prioritizing basic needs in challenging times, she says, means we cannot rely on volunteers for the same types of roles, time commitments, or skills exchange as in the past. There’s a shortage of […]
Tags: ideology, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Canada’s international student crisis was predicted — and ignored
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
These are days of doom and gloom at Ontario’s universities and colleges. You don’t have to have a PhD to know why… provinces outside Ontario provide universities an average of $20,772 per full-time student. Ontario coughs up $11,471. To catch up — that is to be just average — would require spending another $7 billion a year. Ontario has responded by promising $1.3 billion over three years.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction
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As environment minister, I believed the oil sands sector would help us save the planet. I was wrong.
Saturday, December 7th, 2024
The oil sands sector has been lying to us for years. They are not getting cleaner. They are not part of the solution… Canada can choose to be on the right side of history. We can act with the urgency the climate crisis requires and the economic case makes clear. Or, we can double down on the oil sands, abandon the Paris Agreement, ignore the economic opportunities of clean energy, and leave our children a deadly and unsustainable future.
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Five controversial lessons to cure health care from Jane Philpott
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Her goal in writing Health for All is to ensure “every person living in Canada has access to a primary care home, in the same way that every child has access to a public school.” But she acknowledges that it will require a transformation that challenges current thinking, practices and interests… 1. The federal government has a role in public health care, despite complaints from the provinces… 3. Phase out fee-for-service payments and put doctors on salary…
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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Doug Ford needs to follow the evidence on supervised consumption
Thursday, November 28th, 2024
… harm reduction doesn’t simply prevent overdoses and infectious diseases; it eases pressure on Emergency Response Services and our crowded ER’s… all residents deserve to live in peace and security… However, community safety is not a zero-sum game. It is possible to keep our neighbourhoods safe and clean while implementing comprehensive treatment services that save lives — even if it means moving those services to more appropriate locations and improving the way we deliver them.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
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