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Ottawa is right to settle with Sixties Scoop victims
Not only was the past program shameful, so was the government’s continuing defence of it. Now Ottawa has taken two other steps that should help in the healing process… $50 million for a new Indigenous Healing Foundation to help the victims reclaim their identity… $75 million to pay the legal fees of the estimated 20,000 victims who are expected to receive $25,000 to $50,000 each… Now… it should set its sights on correcting other ongoing wrongs to Indigenous children.
Tags: budget, Health, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Students are not fragile flowers – we must care about their mental health
The Canadian Mental Health Association ‘s #b4stage4 campaign asks a thought-provoking question: What if we waited until Stage 4 to treat cancer? … We would never allow our medical system to wait that long to treat this disease. We fully expect to have preventive education, screening and early treatment. Now, imagine if the standard of treatment was equal for mental and physical health conditions.
Tags: budget, disabilities, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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It’s time for a smarter approach to drugs
The harm-reduction approach cannot fully succeed until we stop treating people addicted to drugs as criminals… The war on drugs has driven up the cost of policing, contributed to a national crisis of court delays, compounded racial and class inequities and unnecessarily criminalized people living with physical and mental illness. All that, without delivering any of the promised benefits for public health or public safety.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Doctors deserve a better deal, not tax dodges
… physicians (like lawyers) can access tens of thousands of dollars in RRSP tax shelters beyond the reach of most workers. The lack of physician pensions is a choice they made collectively a half-century ago, when they adamantly refused to be deemed government employees despite earning virtually all their income from public funds in a now archaic fee-for-service model. That income anachronism is debilitating for all sides — patients, doctors and the government.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, tax
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Ontario’s jails can’t even count their dead, review finds
“If the purpose of corrections is to contribute to a peaceful and just society by assisting those in conflict with the law to learn to live within it, then the work of corrections must be done in a way that models ethical, legal and fair behaviour,” Sapers says. Ontario’s corrections work doesn’t. It models slop, neglect and randomness.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Three Ontario nursing homes ordered to stop new admissions because of substandard care
Proper staffing of Ontario long-term care homes in general has long been a complaint among workers, families and the residents who suffer from lack of care… the government introduced legislation that, if passed, would create tougher enforcement against nursing homes. The legislation would include hefty fines for corporations, ranging from $200,000 for first time offence and $500,000 for subsequent offences.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Price tag on national pharmacare will dissuade Ottawa
A national pharmacare program could save $4.2-billion a year, according to a new report by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer… But the 93-page report is math-heavy and politics-light… No government in its right mind is going to take on $20-billion a year in additional costs – especially when it involves the federal government absorbing $13-billion in provincial expenses… If Canada is, like most other Western countries, going to embrace pharmacare, it’s going to have to be a national program, not a federal one.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Ontario’s correctional system needs overhaul, report says
… across the country, and globally, correctional facilities “have put in place a range of measures to help facilitate family contact and support, including child-friendly play spaces, open visiting areas that allow for barrier-free interactions, private family visiting accommodations for longer stays, and mother-child programs that prevent the separation of mothers and young children.
“Ontario’s correctional institutions offer almost none of these opportunities.
Tags: corrections, disabilities, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Canada should learn from countries that do universal health care differently—and better
Data from organizations such as the Commonwealth Fund defuse the notion that such wait times are a natural consequence of universal health care. For example, 30 per cent of Canadian patients reported waiting two months or longer for an appointment with a specialist, compared with only three per cent in Germany, four per cent in France and seven per cent in the Netherlands.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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The War on Drugs has been lost. It’s time to try something else
Portugal has not taken the logical next step of shouldering out the dealers and taking over controlled distribution of drugs itself. This is the path that Canada and the American states of Colorado and Oregon have embarked upon with marijuana… As it prepares the rules for marijuana sales and use, the federal government should examine the Portuguese model, as well as the disastrous drug war in the U.S.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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