Posts Tagged ‘ideology’
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Heath care will only succeed through collaboration, not through competition
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
Competition is… what happens in the most dysfunctional parts of our Canadian health systems, where value for money is most elusive and frustration is highest… Service backlogs. Human resources shortages. Mental health impacts. The co-ordinated effort required to manage recovery will probably dwarf what we have just achieved. More competition and fragmentation is the last thing we need. Collaboration is our only hope.
Tags: featured, globalization, Health, ideology, mental Health
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Why bail reform in Ontario is an expensive mistake
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
It costs approximately $302 per day to keep one person in jail in Ontario… Two recent murders show how bail reform misses the mark… The failure here was not the law, but the police failing to use the law… Instead of locking people up to keep us safe on transit, we could put that money into lowering transit fares. Politicians need to look past bail reform and turn their attention toward a solution that actually makes us safer.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology, poverty
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Troubled life reveals gaps that led to murder
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Failures of the health care system become problems the criminal justice system is expected to solve, even though it’s ill suited to do so. That said, the criminal justice system does play a role in issuing and enforcing orders for treatment and counselling… The only way we will solve these problems is by making a full-throated commitment to repair our frayed social safety net, to mend the gaps… and protect innocent people.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Does Ottawa’s grocery rebate signal a shift to a broader guaranteed basic income?
Monday, April 10th, 2023
Food banks… were first introduced as a temporary measure in the early 1980s in response to economic downturn… though inadequate… they are now relied upon as part of the “social safety net.”… What’s required now is a fundamental philosophical shift in societal and political will to go beyond grocery rebates and support efficient government programming that supports the choice, agency and dignity of all Canadians, regardless of income.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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New rules to shield private clinics from public scrutiny
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
Ontario already has private clinics. But the government is greatly expanding them in number and function and carving out a whole new zone within our health care system where they’ll be allowed to operate with far less public accountability, scrutiny and oversight than is currently required of private clinics… Bill 60 imposes no financial disclosure requirements on the director, who will have sweeping powers over the awarding of lucrative clinic licences.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, privatization
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Supreme Court of Canada won’t hear appeal involving private health care
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
Two Vancouver private health facilities and four patients argued that provisions of the Medicare Protection Act violate their constitutional rights due to long waits for care in B.C.’s publicly funded system… Justice John Steeves said in the original court ruling that while long waits for care might increase the risk to some patients, the provisions were justified by the overall objective of supporting a system where access to health care is based on need, not the ability to pay.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, rights
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Stephen Harper wasn’t obsessed with data. Here’s why Justin Trudeau is
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
This whole fixation on data is, first and foremost, a big product of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the realm of health care. Trudeau has talked often about how the government learned in the early days of the pandemic just how little information it had at its fingertips… The data deficit in the current public service has also been cited as one reason the government has needed to lean so heavily on outside consulting firms
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Crime rates have more to do with social factors than number of police officers
Sunday, April 2nd, 2023
The only way to reduce random crime is to address the root causes of it, usually defined by social indicators: inequality, affordable housing, programs for young children and families. The provincial and federal governments are the only public institutions with the financial capability of addressing these issues, but as we have seen in the recently released budgets of both Queen’s Park and Ottawa, they seem uninterested in doing so.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, housing, ideology, poverty
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Federal budget 2022: Highest-earning Canadians face minimum tax rate increase
Friday, March 31st, 2023
Ottawa is raising the alternative minimum tax rate and imposing new limits on many of the exemptions, deductions and credits that apply under the system starting in 2024… it is increasing the alternative minimum rate to 20.5 per cent from 15 per cent starting in 2024… Wealthy Canadians pay the alternative minimum or regular tax, whichever is higher… about 32,000 Canadians will be covered by alternative minimum tax in 2024
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Cruel health care cut targets the most vulnerable
Friday, March 31st, 2023
… The reason someone is uninsured is often tied to their immigration status and can include those on temporary work or study permits and people who are “undocumented” or without authorized immigration status… To have taken the axe to a small program supporting some of the most vulnerable people in Ontario said a lot about the Ford government, none of it good.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty
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