Posts Tagged ‘jurisdiction’
« Older Entries | Newer Entries »
Canada’s international student crisis was predicted — and ignored
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
These are days of doom and gloom at Ontario’s universities and colleges. You don’t have to have a PhD to know why… provinces outside Ontario provide universities an average of $20,772 per full-time student. Ontario coughs up $11,471. To catch up — that is to be just average — would require spending another $7 billion a year. Ontario has responded by promising $1.3 billion over three years.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Five controversial lessons to cure health care from Jane Philpott
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Her goal in writing Health for All is to ensure “every person living in Canada has access to a primary care home, in the same way that every child has access to a public school.” But she acknowledges that it will require a transformation that challenges current thinking, practices and interests… 1. The federal government has a role in public health care, despite complaints from the provinces… 3. Phase out fee-for-service payments and put doctors on salary…
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Doug Ford needs to follow the evidence on supervised consumption
Thursday, November 28th, 2024
… harm reduction doesn’t simply prevent overdoses and infectious diseases; it eases pressure on Emergency Response Services and our crowded ER’s… all residents deserve to live in peace and security… However, community safety is not a zero-sum game. It is possible to keep our neighbourhoods safe and clean while implementing comprehensive treatment services that save lives — even if it means moving those services to more appropriate locations and improving the way we deliver them.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
Posted in Inclusion Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Don’t have private insurance? You’re still paying for others who do — you deserve better care
Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
Health care in Canada is universal for only two things, doctors and hospitals. For everything else, from psychology to prescription drugs, care depends on your private insurance or ability to pay… public subsidization occurs through an income tax exemption. Specifically, on an employer’s contribution to private health insurance premiums… What if instead, $4 billion of public subsidies to private insurance were used to support universal pharmacare, beyond diabetes and contraceptive care?
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, tax
Posted in Health Policy Context | No Comments »
Is paying out-of-pocket for medically necessary care allowed? Doctors and nurses say patients need to know now
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
… Canada has seen a rise of for-profit medical care in which patients pay out-of-pocket to access primary care through private clinics, virtual platforms or nurse practitioners, who are not covered by provincial health plans… the Canada Health Act’s silence regarding non-physician health-care providers creates a loophole “that certain health-care providers and their clinics are taking advantage of, knowing there is no legal consequence or risk of getting shut down.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, privatization
Posted in Health Policy Context | No Comments »
These doctors can help tackle Ontario’s shortage. They just need a licence
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
… medical residencies should have a different stream for foreign-born doctors that more accurately assesses their qualifications… the expansion of supervised clinical positions in family health teams and Indigenous health centres where these doctors could gain clinical experience while meeting the needs of underserved communities… In the short term… the government could lower barriers to licensure by waiving exam fees — which can quickly run up to thousands of dollars — and funding additional residency positions.
Tags: Health, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
Posted in Health Delivery System | No Comments »
New Report Finds Record Increases in Child Poverty Rates in Ontario
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
“For six years and counting, the provincial government has kept the Ontario Works rates frozen, despite record high cost of living and a 20% increase in the prices of goods and services since 2018”… The report card lays out an evidence-based, inclusive and achievable path toward ending child and family poverty in Ontario. It offers over 20 recommendations that would address gaps in income security, child care, child welfare, youth mental health, housing, food security, and decent work.
Tags: budget, featured, jurisdiction, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Social Security Debates | No Comments »
Canada sees ‘unprecedented rise’ in child poverty rates. Here’s what the numbers in a new report tell us
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
The new national report card, Ending Child Poverty: The Time is Now, shows that the jump in poverty rates in 2021 was the first increase in 10 years, and the latest increase in 2022 was the largest on record. It has been five years since the federal government legislated their poverty reduction strategy, but families are living in deeper poverty than they were in 2015, the year from which the government measures progress.
Tags: jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Social Security History | No Comments »
Ending child poverty: the time is now
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Across all family types, families were living in deeper poverty than they were in 2015, the year the federal poverty reduction strategy measures progress from. Custom data shows that the Canada Child Benefit has lost its power to sustain poverty reduction and that income inequality among families with children is widening… children from systemically marginalized groups experience significantly disproportionately high poverty rates
Tags: jurisdiction, multiculturalism, poverty, youth
Posted in Social Security Debates | No Comments »
Why can’t we die at home? Expanding home care could reduce the financial and environmental cost of dying in hospital
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Primary-care teams can act as informal managers of home care through facilitating the medical, social and comfort components of care. All of this would still add up to far less than the financial and environmental cost of hospitalization. At a time when we’re pressured to cut costs and reduce harm to the environment, and when we know dying patients would rather be at home, why can’t we help?
Tags: budget, Health, Home Care, ideology, jurisdiction
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | No Comments »
Recent Comments