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Freeing our people: Updates from the long road to deinstitutionalization
How can we expect any better from society when our own government continues to fund deeply segregated, dehumanizing and dangerous forms of support for people with intellectual disabilities? Out of sight, out of mind has hidden many disturbing facts about intellectual disability from the public for far too long. We can no longer say that we didn’t know any better. We can no longer say we can’t do any better.
Tags: disabilities, featured, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Universal health care was the Centennial Generation’s greatest achievement
In the early 1960s, the Royal Commission on Health Services, appointed by a Progressive Conservative government and chaired by Justice Emmett Hall, discovered that more than 40 per cent of the population – 7.5 million Canadians – had no health insurance. It recommended changing that, by following the model of NDP-led Saskatchewan. As a result, between 1960 and 1970, Canadian governments made health insurance public and universal.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Quebec expects to save millions with overhaul of generic-drug purchasing process
In the new system, the government has capped rebates pharmacists can receive at 15 per cent. Drug purchases will now be centralized under one competitive bid for any generic drug that has at least three competitive manufacturers. Contracts will run up to three years. Brand-name drugs are not part of the new plan… Business analysts anticipate the province could save 25 per cent to 35 per cent on its $800-million generic-drug bill if the system was implemented and proved effective.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Is the federal government a champion of reconciliation or of discrimination?
The effect of long delays in urgent service approvals and service denials are too often the same — the tragic loss of children’s lives… it is a good time to remember that citizenship is not about having blind faith in the government in the face of such clear and compelling evidence of wrongdoing; it is about loving the values that define the country enough to stand up for them.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, youth
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Better pay for doctors won’t cure what ails the system
… the idea that physician pay — not just the agreed fee, but the frequency of billings — should be uncontrolled, ungoverned, and unaccounted for by anyone other than doctors is unsustainable. And it is at the centre of the ongoing dispute between the government and the OMA, and within the OMA itself… A fee for service system that rewards patient volumes over patient vitals is dumb and dated. More than merely gatekeepers, doctors must be partners
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Release full data on drug company payments to doctors
Full disclosure will make physicians more cautious about accepting payments that may influence how they treat their patients, and researchers can actually measure the effects of those fees on doctors’ prescribing habits… pharmaceutical companies have made it clear to the government they will not voluntarily report how much they pay individual doctors. Now the government must step in as quickly as possible and force the issue.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Ottawa’s focus on data a good step in addressing gender-based violence
An epidemic such as gender-based violence can’t be solved without first understanding who is affected and how… the Trudeau government’s sensible new strategy on gender-based violence, which was announced this week, will focus foremost on modernizing research and collecting up-to-date data. These are crucial steps in addressing a deep-rooted problem ignored by Ottawa for far too long.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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With new solitary rules, Canada gets smarter on crime
Prison is a paradox. In a civilized society, the goal of putting people behind bars is to prepare them to be released, and to equip them to live successfully on the outside. That’s what Canada’s federal prison system says its about, and it should go doubly for the provincial prison systems… most people behind bars in Canada are getting out – soon… The use of solitary confinement for anything other than short periods of time doesn’t further that objective. Even relatively short spells in isolation can harm mental health.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | No Comments »
Today, trans Canadians celebrate Bill C-16. Tomorrow, the work begins for us all
… trans and gender non-binary Canadians are now recognized as formally equal citizens. But the work of real equality has only just begun… As the history of movements for racial justice and women’s rights has shown, anti-discrimination laws are limited in their ability to tackle structural inequalities. And the structural inequalities that trans and gender non-binary individuals face are monumental.
Tags: featured, ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Health care: What should we be paying for?
… the evidence has found that allowing private payment does indeed make the publicly available care worse. More promising approaches to improving wait times include both making sure the necessary resources are in place, and learning from engineers and improving queue management, including encouraging single points of entry… if we are going to invest more money, place it where we can improve peoples’ health
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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