Posts Tagged ‘jurisdiction’
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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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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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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… here’s what you need to know about the $40B child welfare agreements
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
… these legal victories would not have been possible without the support of Canadians. After the graves of children who died in Indian Residential Schools were found, countless Canadians stood in solidarity with Indigenous communities and demanded the government not repeat mistakes of the past. public support will be needed more than ever to ensure that the spirit of the agreement is respected and translated into meaningful change for First Nations children.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Ottawa releases early details of landmark $40B First Nations child welfare agreement
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
The non-binding agreement sets aside $20 billion for compensation and $20 billion for long-term reform of the on-reserve child welfare system… The parties have until March 31 to finalize the agreement… The $20 billion dedicated to long-term reform of the child welfare system will be distributed over a period of five years… “Today is about a plan for the future, with First Nations defining and determining a path forward grounded in our rights and the common goal to have our children succeed,”
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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With child-care program Trudeau finds a model for influencing provincial policy
Saturday, December 18th, 2021
… the success of Trudeau’s child-care program has given the federal government a means to mould provincial policy from Ottawa and he said it’s one he could use again… The agreements vary fairly drastically from province to province — a strategy that allows the federal government to push its agenda while maintaining the autonomy and regional differences of its provincial counterparts. Essentially, the government put the money on the table and invited provinces to come and negotiate for their slice.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction
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Its critics call it ‘birth tourism.’ But is the practice real? COVID-19 is providing clues
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Griffith estimates that the percentage of “tourism births” has now reached one per cent of all births in Canada in an average year. “This is really a question of the integrity of the citizenship program… This is legal but it’s still a loophole that allows basically fairly affluent women and families to shortcut the process, find a backdoor entry and without going through the standard process of becoming a Canadian citizen.”
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, rights
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It’s time for this generation’s political leaders to tackle the hard issues in Canadian health care
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
Provincial health-care systems differ widely over titles, practices, pay and performance metrics. Their contribution to wider sharing of best practices could be agreeing to some shared definitions, targets and an agency to measure performance… as the pandemic revealed, provinces in a health-care crisis must support each other.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Welfare in Canada, 2020
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
For each province and territory, this report provides data and analysis on the total welfare income that households receiving social assistance would have qualified for in 2020, including COVID-19 pandemic-related supports… The reports look at four different household types for each province and territory.
Tags: budget, disabilities, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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