Posts Tagged ‘mental Health’
PCs take Ontario back to bad old days of political fundraising
… buried within the… Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act… are a set of changes that would at the least loosen, and potentially eviscerate, the province’s new campaign finance regime… What urgent public imperative requires that corporations and unions be allowed to donate to political parties — and not openly but surreptitiously?… there’s no reason parties need to spend anything like as much as they do, and lots of reasons to prefer they should spend less…
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health
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Unpaid caregivers do a lot of heavy lifting – and they deserve more support
Stats Can also reports that 8.1 million Canadians are providing some level of care to a loved one, suggesting that the majority of care, especially of seniors, is being done on an informal basis… A large number of caregivers, 44 per cent, said their loved ones have “aging issues” that require help, but a significant number, 17 per cent, care for someone with dementia, and as many care for someone with a significant physical disability… if caregivers were paid the equivalent of Ontario’s minimum wage ($14 an hour), their economic contributions would range from $26-billion to $72-billion a year.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, Health, mental Health
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Child advocate is a cruel target for Tory cuts
… t an advocate isn’t the same thing as an ombudsman. “It outrages me that we’ve removed somebody who (people) can call who will stand beside them,” says Elman — “not an ombudsman, who’s going to look at both sides and decide whether the policy was adhered to properly, but somebody is going to stand beside that parent and be with them, or beside that child in the group home and say, ‘We’ve got you.’”
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, youth
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Years after landmark case, some Ontario inmates with mental health issues still segregated for months at a time, ministry data dump reveals
Last month, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services quietly posted an unprecedented volume of data on 3,086 inmates who spent time in segregation in Ontario jails over a two-month period earlier this year. It was part of a five-year-old settlement in an Ontario human rights case… The bad news is nothing much has changed in five years. In fact, it has grown worse for people with mental illness
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, Native, rights, standard of living
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Let’s not forget that our medicare system was also born of war
Canada alone operated 10 large hospitals in England and France to tend to its wounded, along with 10 stationary hospitals and four casualty clearing stations. Back home, the federal government also took control of 11 hospitals for the care of returning soldiers, and built the first state-run hospital… It also fuelled political debates about the need for a “national sickness plan,” to extend public health insurance beyond veterans.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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CMHA Ontario welcomes implementation of Police Records Check Reform Act
… police are not permitted to disclose non-conviction mental health records, including those that stem from apprehensions under the Mental Health Act… non-conviction mental health records will no longer appear on police record checks… People have been turned down for volunteer work, jobs, school placements and cross-border travel because authorities shared non-conviction records and personal mental health information showed up on police record checks.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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Fixing solitary isn’t enough. Canada’s prisons need to be reformed top to bottom
… progress on the issue of reducing solitary confinement is halting at best, in spite of heightened public attention… the broader question of getting Canada’s prison system back on its intended course – that is, rehabilitating convicted criminals and preparing them for their eventual and in most cases inevitable release – has not been addressed. The overuse of solitary confinement is, in fact, a symptom of a larger problem.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, Native, standard of living
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Ontario should stop stalling on making payments to doctors public
… it is so alarming that months after taking office the Ford government has yet to enact regulations that would bring into force the Health Sector Transparency Act passed by the previous Liberal government. It should quit stalling. The legislation would compel drug companies and those that manufacture medical devices to publicly report cash payments, free dinners, trips and other benefits they dole out to doctors, dentists and pharmacists.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Bureaucracy should not stand in the way of a dignified death
… under Canada’s MAiD rules, to be eligible a patient must have a “grievous and irremediable medical condition,” their death must be “reasonably foreseeable,” they must be capable of informed consent, they must have the approval of two independent physicians (or nurse-practitioners), make the request in writing in the presence of two witnesses, have an unofficial cooling-off period to be sure their decision is final and then give “late-stage consent” just prior to the injection of the drug cocktail that will hasten death.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights
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Hatred of Big Pharma won’t get us better drug prices
Talking about the price of drugs is very 20th century; in the 21st century, and the impending era of personalized medicine, what matters is the value treatments provide. For drugs such as Remicade, we should be paying, and paying fairly, when the drug works, when it delivers on a specific treatment goal.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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