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Ford government’s controversial plan for private medical clinics will begin this spring
Sunday, January 21st, 2024
The Ontario government will approve more privately owned clinics to provide diagnostic services like CTs and MRIs and surgeries starting April 1… critics fear will bleed the public health system of doctors, nurses and other resources at a time when patients face record waits in hospital emergency rooms… Ontario currently has more than 900 private clinics in operation, mainly providing X-rays and other diagnostic services, and many of them predate [this] government.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Understanding The Scope Of Private Healthcare In Canada
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
“The goal of this paper is not to argue either for or against private healthcare… It is simply to clarify what is meant by ‘private’ healthcare, and to explain the different ways provincial legislation currently permits or prohibits aspects of private healthcare. I also discuss the supply and demand side variables… and… offer an analysis of the relationship between provincial healthcare legislation and the Canada Health Act, with reference to the expansion of private healthcare in Canada.”
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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No end to the ER crisis without investments and addressing workers’ concerns
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
We recently estimated that dealing with those pressures and bringing back the quality of care in our hospitals to an acceptable standard would require a $1.25 billion annual investment after offsetting costs of inflation. But so far, the Ford government is letting the hospitals deteriorate while it sits on $5.4 billion in contingency funding. If this government is serious about addressing the hospital crisis, it must commit to historic investments immediately.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Ontario’s universities face a looming crisis. ‘Efficiencies’ aren’t the answer
Sunday, January 14th, 2024
Neither domestic nor foreign students can afford a tuition increase, yet universities can’t make ends meet without more funding. Ontario student funding is already the lowest in the country… first and foremost, the Ford government needs to increase per-student funding to institutions by at least the 10 per cent its own panel recommended and prepare for more increases down the road.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Canadians want their governments to tackle poverty, but nobody can agree on what to do
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, lone-parent households, recent immigrants and single adults aged 45 to 64 have a poverty rate that is double or triple that of the rest of the population. More than two-thirds of working-age individuals living in poverty belong to at least one of these groups… Better universal access to affordable quality physical and mental-health care, early childhood care, and social housing are some of the win-win policy actions that encourage both growth and poverty reduction.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty
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Surrendering to the provinces doesn’t bring peace to the federation. It only emboldens them
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
The thesis… that peace with the provinces is the highest aim of federal policy, and that the way to achieve it is to give them everything they want – or at least to never give them any offence – is a recipe for national paralysis. There are issues on which federal leadership is essential… how we got here [is] not because the federal government has been too hard on the provinces, but because it has been altogether too indulgent of them.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Canadian schools are accepting international students by the thousands — but nearly half aren’t being allowed into the country
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
The Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association has made a submission to the federal government on the international student program and recommends overseas education agents be regulated by provinces and designated learning institutions be accountable for their agents’ activities and conduct. It urges Canada to mandate the institutions to employ overseas agents directly and release their names, citizenship and location of work.
Tags: economy, immigration, jurisdiction
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Don’t Blame Carbon Pricing for Affordability Challenges
Monday, January 1st, 2024
With the latest data, we find that the gradually increasing indirect taxes, including carbon taxes, have caused overall consumer prices to be only 0.6 per cent higher in October 2023 than they were in January 2015… The effect of carbon pricing on rising food prices is even smaller, accounting for the indirect effects of carbon taxes… Carbon pricing is definitively not to blame for affordability challenges.
Tags: economy, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Critical nursing shortage puts patients at risk
Saturday, December 30th, 2023
As the health care crisis rages unabated across the country, it is nurses who are holding our health systems together through grit, determination and a shocking amount of overtime… Fixing the nursing shortage is not just about adding more nurses to the system; it’s about addressing the conditions that have created this dire crisis… Relying on excessive overtime or costly private nurse agencies as short-term fixes only exacerbates the systemic challenges facing health care.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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The Government of Canada announces the creation of the Canadian Drug Agency
Wednesday, December 20th, 2023
The CDA will build on CADTH’s existing mandate… to include new work streams including: Improving the appropriate prescribing and use of medications… Increasing pan-Canadian data collection and expanding access to drug and treatment data… and, Reducing drug system duplication and lack of coordination that causes expensive inefficiencies and pressures… Once the CDA is operational, it will take on a greater role in the drug system to ensure Canadians can have better health outcomes and access the medications…
Tags: economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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