Posts Tagged ‘ideology’
Toronto’s community crisis plan is a welcome shift away from policing mental-health care
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
When people slip through the cracks of our broken mental health care system, they fall right to the police. And then it falls to police to deal with the situation, even though they’re ill-equipped to do so. A functioning community framework, on the other hand, would provide people with the necessary support right in their communities — not locked away in isolated institutions — and from people they know and trust.
Tags: featured, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism
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Budget outlook: $5 billion in annual tax cuts weaken Ontario’s case for federal dollars
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
“In the months ahead, we can expect Premier Ford to ramp up his calls for more federal funding, especially for health care. He is not strengthening his case by giving away $5 billion each year.” … A better approach would be to chart a course to restore provincial revenues through an ambitious program of progressive taxation
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Digital Health Tools Must Remain a Core Part of Canada’s Post-pandemic Health Care Delivery System
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
Doctors couldn’t access patient records, some systems were only available in facilities that were themselves not physically accessible, large data systems didn’t work, telemedicine networks didn’t scale. The health-care system itself hadn’t adequately planned for a pandemic! This broken system must end now… We can start with three: labs, drugs, and patient record summaries.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Israel capped CEO pay for banking execs at $1 million. Its unique experiment could work here, too
Friday, January 14th, 2022
Over the years, the ratio between those who hold the top jobs and regular employees has gone up tremendously. Justifications for this were always based on arguments that CEO pay is set in a competitive market. The reality, however, is different. CEO pay has no equilibrium and continues to ratchet up endlessly… For too long we’ve been brainwashed by free-market myths about CEO pay. The natural experiment in Israel has refuted them.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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After decades of delay, national child-care plan proves an ambitious social agenda is possible
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
… now that it’s clear a national child-care system is politically viable, it will be up to the Trudeau government to ensure that the one it’s started to build is strong — and public. The success of Scandinavian-style child care stems from the fact that it is a truly public system — like our school system — with no place for private profit-making, which leads to cutting corners on staff and resources.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, privatization
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What do we want our health-care system to do, and how much are we willing to pay?
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
In late 2019, the Ontario Hospital Association published a report touting the sector’s history of efficiency while warning that the efficiencies had come at a cost. It noted that, if Ontario funded its hospital system just to the level of the Canadian average, that would cost another $4 billion annually. But almost all Canadian provinces have relatively few beds per capita compared with other wealthy countries…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Canadians with disabilities fell through the cracks in the pandemic response. Here’s what needs to change as Omicron surges
Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
… living with a disability is one minority group that anyone can join. Disability Without Poverty is led by people with disabilities and came about around the end of 2020 in response to gaps in how the government served their communities during the pandemic and to push for a national disability benefit, which has been slowly moving through Parliament and would provide support besides existing provincial programs.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Riches for top CEOs come at a cost to everyone else
Friday, January 7th, 2022
the federal government should review rules on how much executive compensation companies can deduct (the United States already caps it at $1 million per employee), capital gains and stock options, as well as instituting a wealth tax for the richest Canadians. “Higher taxation levels can reduce inequality and help to refill government coffers following the impact of the pandemic,” the report says.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Decriminalization Done Right: A Rights-Based Path for Drug Policy
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
Punitive drug laws and policies aimed at ending illegal drug use have failed; and worse, they have done catastrophic harm to communities and society… fuelled stigma; epidemics of preventable illness and death; poverty; homelessness; and widespread, systematic, and egregious violations of human rights. Decriminalizing personal drug possession and necessity trafficking are fundamental, necessary steps towards a more rational and just drug policy grounded in evidence and human rights.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, rights
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected abortion care in Canada
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
Pandemic-related travel restrictions and facility closures initially jeopardized access to abortion care. However, the pandemic has also become a catalyst for more accessible ways to deliver abortion care, such as providing medical abortions, which are drug-induced rather than surgical, via telemedicine… Research shows that telemedicine abortion care is safe, and enabled people to seek care despite pandemic-related restrictions and personal concerns.
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, rights, women
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