Posts Tagged ‘ideology’
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Quebec basic income program begins, but advocates say many low-income people excluded
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
The program, aimed at 84,000 Quebecers with a “severely limited capacity for employment” such as a chronic illness or mental health condition, will provide an increase of more than 28 per cent for a single person, the government says… they will also have the ability to earn about $14,500 a year in wages – up from $200 a month – and have up to $20,000 in savings, all without losing benefits.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pensions, poverty
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Premier Doug Ford should explain why he underfunds public health care
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
If Ontario just spent the average of what the other provinces have spent on health care per capita over the past five years, we’d be spending an additional $7.2 billion this year — more than enough to properly pay our beleaguered nurses, lure thousands more nurses to Ontario and bring back into use countless hospital operating rooms all over the province idled by years of budget cuts.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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‘The rich and everybody else’: Financial inequality in Canada keeps growing
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
Fifty per cent of households are earning less than $16,000 to $17,000. That’s even after taxes and transfers and benefits. That gap between the 50 per cent of the population, roughly 8 million people or more, and that top 1 per cent of earners, a very small slice of the working population, is huge. And it’s growing bigger… Capitalism and democracy have always been in contestation. People want votes. People want rights. And they see that, usually, they can’t get them, because there’s a whole bunch of rich people who aren’t willing to do it.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Real health innovation means investing where health begins
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
According to health science, federal Liberal investments in child care, housing, poverty reduction, and climate action ARE investments in health. Federal leadership has been necessary because provinces have been retreating from investing in the social conditions that shape health and well-being. Any additional federal transfers for health ought to encourage provinces to achieve a better balance in their social and medical spending in order to promote health.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Taking Back Health Care: How to Accelerate People-Centred Reform Now
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
A set of public policies aimed at not just treating illness, but also promoting health and providing the infrastructure to support health resilience, will lead to a more affordable system in the long run and ultimately a greater public good… health is fundamental to the economic and social resiliency of our country and the well-being of its population. These expectations provide the road map for modernizing our health system.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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I was a victim of random violence on the TTC. Throwing money at the problem won’t make us safer
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
My story is just one of many that reveals the systemic failure of our social infrastructure, and the ways in which we need to redirect our energies, efforts and money toward social programming and mental-health supports… to confront issues and traumas deeply rooted in our failure to meet the needs of marginalized people, and a system where a lack of support allows insecurity and mental illness to grow.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, mental Health
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Our health-care leaders wilfully ignored the benefits of virtual walk-in medical care
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
Conflating an association between virtual walk-in clinic visits and added ER visits with causation perpetuates the thinking of our health-care leaders’ that virtual walk-in clinics are subpar… How will our leaders explain all this to the 1.8 million Ontarians without a doctor, and to the millions more who cannot access their doctor in a timely fashion, who have had virtual care — their health care lifeline — mercilessly taken away from them?
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Doug Ford’s private surgery plan is driven by ideology not innovation
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
… the government will expect the private facilities to take it upon themselves to prevent the luring of medical professionals from the public system. The foxes will be charged with guarding the henhouse… When the auditor general can find widespread abuse in the current limited private surgery sector, we can only shudder at what she’s likely to see after the government implements its plan to vastly expand private, for-profit surgeries.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Trusting the Ford government to get health reform right? That’s a big ask
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
… if you want doctors working overnight on-call shifts when you have a medical emergency, you want doctors to be associated with hospitals… public hospitals aren’t for-profit but they have budgets, and they make money on the easy procedures so that they can afford to handle the hard, necessary, more laborious ones… farming out easy surgeries without expanding public capacity needs to be considered carefully.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Ontario does not need more for-profit surgery
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Repealing Bill 124, for example, would be a first step in attracting nurses back to hospital ORs, and moving surgeries to dedicated community facilities could increase volumes by 30 per cent for roughly the same cost. But investing more broadly in for-profit surgery providers – which has enormous risks for hospital staffing, and will increase the costs passed on to patients and taxpayers – should not be on the table.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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