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Health Coalition wants $3.5 Billion in Budget for Pharmacare
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
If accepted, the government would fulfill a key recommendation of the 2019 Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, led by Dr. Eric Hoskins, which estimated that it will cost an additional $3.5 billion to launch national pharmacare starting with universal coverage for essential medicines. Here are the coalition’s four recommendations…
Tags: featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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COVID-19 response should highlight what went right in Canada
Thursday, August 10th, 2023
TheStar.com – Opinion/ Contributors August 10, 2023. By Kwame McKenzie, Contributor I am concerned that while we focus on relitigating the past we will allow useful, effective pandemic innovations to wither and die. Over 53,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Canada, with more every day. It has been a traumatic time and we have just […]
Tags: economy, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical
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Are the Tories actually underspending? Here’s what the numbers say
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
… the Ontario government is already dealing with criticism on multiple fronts from political constituencies with demands that are hardly unreasonable: things like keeping hospital ERs open or adequately funding forest-fire suppression in the worst fire season in Canada’s recorded history or keeping the province’s largest city from falling into a budgetary black hole. These aren’t extravagances — they’re the normal things people expect from government.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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“Getting it done” Ontario’s agenda for college education
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
The rhetoric of cost-efficiency embraces regulation, hierarchy and monopoly to transform college educational policy. The resulting marketing of education is destabilizing the college system by lowering educational standards and replacing education with labour-ready training… the pedagogical plan is no less disconcerting and will result in changes in student recruitment and training that essentially bypass key components of a college education.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Welfare in Canada, 2022 is now available
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
This annual report… provides the welfare incomes of four example households receiving social assistance in a calendar year for each province and territory… Included are: The components of welfare incomes and their amounts; How adequate welfare incomes are relative to measures of poverty; How benefit amounts and adequacy have changed over time… The majority of households (29 of 53) saw below-inflation increases to their incomes, and so were not able to keep up with the rising cost of living.
Tags: jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario’s solution to the health care crisis is to hire nurses through agencies — and the cost has now quadrupled
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
What was bad last year is worse this year. That’s because there’s still no plan to tackle the root causes of burnout and turnover. Hospitals are still so short-staffed, nurses are simply thrown at the labour crisis of the day, some not even able to take pre-scheduled vacations, know when or how long they are going to work on any given day, or what kind of work they will be asked to do. Shift the lens to child care, long-term care and other forms of health care, and the same story emerges.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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How Toronto — and Canada’s — immigration landscape shifted because of one program
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
Provincial Nominee Program has diverted economic immigrants from Ontario, B.C. and Quebec to smaller provinces among other changes… first rolled out in Manitoba in 1998 and later expanded to the rest of the country… [Since PNP] applicants are selected specifically for their increased likelihood of participating in the labour force and establishing themselves economically, an increase in their share likely improved the collective economic outcomes of recent economic immigrants.”
Tags: economy, immigration, jurisdiction, participation
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Nightmarish Commercial Simply Wrong: Healthcare Outsourcing is not Privatization
Friday, July 14th, 2023
The government of Ontario should think about how to contract for insured services with private clinics without causing staffing problems for traditional providers, but should begin experimenting with this model in the specialties and places where the prospects seem most promising. And it should carefully monitor outcomes.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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The premiers need to get serious about health care reform, not just funding
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
… the premiers need to commit to some semblance of a coherent, co-ordinated plan… What the health system needs right now is swift and collective action from the premiers in identifying problem areas and setting clear goals for longer-term changes. You can’t measure progress without targets and timelines. Nor can you have any accountability.
Tags: jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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What you need to know about Canada’s new first home savings account
Saturday, July 8th, 2023
… many first-time buyers start by buying more modest properties initially, and the FHSA could help them get into the housing market earlier. Of course, this will still take time given the $8,000 per year contribution limit. While the impact of the FHSA won’t be instant, and while it’s not a complete solution, it’s a step in the right direction. For many Canadians, owning a home provides security and a sense of belonging.
Tags: economy, housing, jurisdiction, participation
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