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Ontario taxpayers fork over $4.3 million to settle legal costs in Bill 124 cases

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

In a 2-1 decision earlier this year, the Appeal Court struck down the law, saying it infringed on workers’ Charter rights. The province accepted defeat and, soon after, repealed the law in its entirety… The province has so far paid out $6.7 billion for retroactive pay increases to broader public-sector workers after the law was struck down. Taxpayers would have been on the hook for those salary bumps either way, but the additional legal costs were a waste of money, leaders of the opposition parties said.

Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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6.5 million Canadians lack a family doctor. The solution is already here

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

In a report released this month, [three of Canada’s senators] suggest the following: accelerate a pathway for the many internationally trained doctors who are currently unable to practise in Canada…. Hundreds of ITPs currently compete for each residency spot available to them, a situation which is clearly untenable… Practice Ready Assessment[s] consist[s] of a 3-month assessment of a doctor’s competency to practise, assessed by licensed doctors in Canada while they see patients, usually in a rural or remote setting.

Tags: Health, immigration, jurisdiction
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What’s behind Canada’s housing crisis? Experts break down the different factors at play

Friday, October 4th, 2024

The market is most likely to respond to the housing needs of those with strong purchasing power, leaving behind low and moderate income families whose housing needs cannot generate effective market demand. The consequence is growing housing inequality, with many low-income families trapped in precarious living conditions… De-commodifying and de-financializing housing is key. This means expanding community housing, prioritizing community-based solutions and ensuring long-term security for all.

Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Ford’s bungling of Ontario’s nursing shortage is aimed at undermining public health care

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

… staff shortages and long wait-lists in Ontario are problems that were greatly exacerbated by Ford’s mishandling of the nursing crisis. Could it be that the dissatisfaction with our health-care system may be best solved — not by introducing a lot of private, profit-making clinics — but simply by paying nurses good wages within the public system?

Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Doctors want to practice medicine. Instead, we are buried in paperwork

Monday, September 30th, 2024

Administrative burden is a catch-all term to describe all the work a family physician does each day that does not include seeing patients… on average, a family doctor spends 19 hours per week on administrative and clerical tasks. Is it any wonder that recent reports state that medical students don’t want to be family doctors? In fact, 94 per cent of family doctors report feeling overwhelmed with this burden and as a result, some even close their practices…

Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Only the United States benefits from renegotiating the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal

Monday, September 30th, 2024

Ideologically, the U.S. is no longer the free-trade champion it was… concessions are highly unlikely to convince the U.S. — regardless of which party is in power — to surrender the most potent weapon it has in its arsenal to pressure its neighbours to adopt its preferred policies. Policy reform, simply put, leads to U.S. market access… The 2018 CUSMA didn’t preserve free trade in North America. It signalled its demise and the return of power politics to our most important economic relationship.

Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction
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Ontario’s closure of youth detention facilities has not resulted in more support for young people

Sunday, September 29th, 2024

The move to shift youth in the justice system away from confinement and towards community is a positive one. However, without investment in community-based service providers to support youth being transitioned out of custodial settings, it is unlikely that youth will thrive. Such failures are likely to increase acute mental health crises and demands on ambulatory care within general medicine and psychiatric hospitals… [and] increase the number of youth who will come into conflict with the criminal legal system as adults.

Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, youth
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Addressing the Crisis in Access to Primary to Primary Care: A Targeted Approach

Sunday, September 29th, 2024

… a major cause for the dysfunction is the reluctance of provincial governments to undertake institutional reforms, for fear of provoking interest groups – particularly physicians’ organizations. The provinces have not made major changes to their health delivery systems since forced to do so by the deficit crises of the 1990s… The author recommends… an aggressive increase in the number of nurse practitioners working in community primary care, usually in multi-discipline clinics; and… rostering patients and expanding capitation in multi-discipline clinics.

Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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