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Ontario’s rape crisis centres urge Ford government to keep promise to boost funding
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
That promise, made by the previous Liberal government last March, was a 33 per cent increase in funding over three years to address skyrocketing demand for sex-assault services… With the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, community-based sexual assault centres have seen a significant upswing in calls and requests for support.”… In one year alone, centres have been swamped dealing with more than 50,000 calls, up from almost a decade ago when they took 30,000 such calls.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Provincial cuts leave adults with disabilities ‘hanging on a ledge’
Saturday, January 19th, 2019
Parents unable to manage or co-ordinate their adult son or daughter’s daily life believe the only options are day programs, which cost as much as $35,000 a year, or residential care, that typically runs at $140,000 annually, McGill says. Independent facilitators, however, work with individuals to discover their dreams, interests and goals and connect them with much less costly community resources.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, participation, youth
Posted in Inclusion Delivery System | No Comments »
Dealing with deadly donation bins only scratches poverty’s surface
Monday, January 14th, 2019
An estimated 30,000 Canadians remain homeless on any given night. The federal government’s ambitious 10-year, $40-billion Reaching Home strategy – a plan to cut chronic homelessness in half while building 100,000 units and repairing 300,000 more – won’t be launched until late spring. And we’re yet to learn how provinces, cities and community organizations will partner in its wake to produce meaningful change.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Ford flirts with private health care at his peril
Monday, January 14th, 2019
Ford’s election pledges to axe cap-and-trade and implement tax giveaways that overwhelmingly benefit high income earners and corporations will cost approximately $22 billion. That’s $22 billion less for health, education, roads, transit, housing, parks and so on: among the most severe cuts in our history. We anticipate these cuts to start in earnest after the federal election. They will almost certainly result in privatization, if we do not stop them.
Tags: budget, ideology, mental Health, participation
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
Let’s make 2019 the year Canada finally gets pharmacare (2)
Saturday, January 12th, 2019
Canada’s dysfunctional non-system of non-universal drug insurance goes into the ring with one big advantage: It’s the status quo. It exists, through hundreds of government programs and thousands of workplace arrangements and collective agreements. Canadians will have to be persuaded that reform will improve their existing coverage, or at least leave it unchanged.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Ontario government’s lawyer says teachers can use own judgment in sex-ed lessons
Saturday, January 12th, 2019
ETFO president Sam Hammond said he was surprised to hear the government’s position on using the 2015 curriculum as a resource… He said that if the government had told teachers that they were free to use their professional judgment and the 2015 curriculum as a resource in implementing the current curriculum, “we wouldn’t be here today, quite frankly.” Instead, Mr. Hammond said the government chose to publicly threaten teachers.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, youth
Posted in Education Debates | No Comments »
Fate of Ontario Drug Benefit could define federal election
Friday, January 11th, 2019
Premier Doug Ford is… likely to gut the Ontario Drug Benefit seniors’ program. How the federal Liberals and NDP respond to this challenge will define their parties’ visions for the country and determine the election results… Ford inherited a $6-plus billion deficit and he’s blown that up with tax reductions and lost law suits… Cutting the ODB seniors’ program and implementing a Quebec or Manitoba-style plan could save $2 billion in one fell swoop.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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What many Canadians don’t know about the Canada Health Act
Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Public funding is still focused on hospital-based approaches to treating disabilities and chronic conditions, instead of home-care methods, which are much more cost-effective… Prescription drugs provided outside hospital settings are also not covered by the Canada Health Act and require out-of-pocket spending. In 2017, approximately 700,000 Canadians had no prescription drug coverage, while an estimated 3.6 million had inadequate coverage to afford necessary medications.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Let’s make 2019 the year Canada finally gets pharmacare
Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
If you’re hospitalized and you’re given prescription meds, it’s free. But once you walk out of the hospital with a prescription to fill, you may be on your own. Coverage is a mix of private insurance and out-of-pocket spending, with the provinces and territories filling some of the gaps with a grab bag of local programs, each unique to its jurisdiction, for groups such as seniors and the poor… Government programs are limited and selective, creating a safety net that’s filled with holes.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Doctors should follow patients beyond the hospital
Saturday, January 5th, 2019
As trainees, we learn to manage patients on medical wards and in office clinics. We become proficient at recognizing their maladies and manipulating their biology: our exams and training prepare us well for this. But we are less prepared to understand how community services — arguably the crucible of modern health care — will pick up where we have left off… Yet, most physicians get little to no exposure to rehabilitation institutions, long-term care facilities and nursing homes.
Tags: Health, mental Health, standard of living
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