Posts Tagged ‘privatization’
Do trade deals put public health care up for sale?
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
… the introduction of a parallel, private-pay system in Alberta based on private health insurance and out-of-pocket payment represents a fundamental change to Canada’s public health care system. Alberta would have a difficult time restricting the newly created market to Canadian firms, even if the government wanted to, and once foreign investors become entrenched, they will benefit from the full force of Canada’s international trade obligations.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Ontario to miss federal deadline for publicly funding nurse practitioners
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
Health Minister Sylvia Jones pushed the federal government years ago to close what she called a loophole in the Canada Health Act that allowed some nurse practitioner clinics in the province to charge patients fees for primary care… The government has done that… It has given provinces and territories the April 1 deadline — but Ontario won’t be ready.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, privatization
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I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
When Doug Ford was elected premier in 2018, he promised to “end hallway medicine.” But by 2024, the problem had doubled to some 2,000 Ontarians lying on stretchers in hospital hallways… Good health is impossible without stable housing… Shutting down all supervised consumption sites… Underfunded nursing… Expanding for‑profit medicine… [and] Neglecting home care and keeping people in hospital beds
Tags: economy, featured, Health, Home Care, housing, privatization
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What Alberta is doing with its health care is a threat to every Canadian
Monday, February 9th, 2026
The Health Statutes Amendment Act will allow physicians to practice in both the public and private system for medically necessary care — meaning that they can both bill the provincial health care plan for some patients and charge other patients out-of-pocket or through private insurance… Dual practice does not address the real problems in health care because it does not involve adding more health care professionals to the system or enable more organized, efficient care.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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We’re already facing the consequences of two-tier health care. Doug Ford is opening the door to make it even worse
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
… the door is now wide open to a major expansion of for-profit health care thanks to Ontario’s Bill 60. The bill contains no obvious limits on outsourcing publicly funded health services to the private sector… While reducing wait times is a goal we all share, funding private, for-profit expansion while publicly funded operating rooms sit underused and nurses remain unavailable is not the solution.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Canada has to defend this vital part of its infrastructure from America. Here are three steps Mark Carney can take
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
With their astronomical wealth, tech companies use extraordinary, undemocratic means to shape policy conversations in favour of consolidating US power… First, Canada needs a new digital strategy and charter to meet the moment… Second, Canada must identify and secure the most critical digital systems and data from foreign control… Third, Canada must stop giving away leverage to the U.S… Digital sovereignty does not arrive by surrender.
Tags: economy, globalization, jurisdiction, privatization, sovereignty, tax
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Ford government is an obstacle to highly affordable, high-quality child care
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Ontario’s auditor general reported the Ford government failed to create the number of child care spaces it promised, even as overall demand has tripled. Much of this failure is down to Conservatives’ fixation on for-profit child care… The result? Thousands of families are still without child care.
Tags: child care, Education, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization
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Alberta is turning public hospitals into private businesses. Will Ontario follow?
Friday, November 28th, 2025
Ontarians who can afford it buy their way to faster care, while patients living paycheque to paycheque are left with even longer wait times as the public system is drained of staff by higher-paid private work. This is gradually shifting Ontario away from universal, equitable care toward a system where health justice hinges on income.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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Could a national, public ‘CanGPT’ be Canada’s answer to ChatGPT?
Friday, November 28th, 2025
… what if AI were developed as a public utility rather than as a commercial service? Canada’s long history with public service media — namely the CBC and Radio-Canada — offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public amid growing calls for a public interest approach to AI policy.
Tags: Education, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing
Monday, November 17th, 2025
“The evidence will tell you that those places with for-profit facilities don’t do more surgeries because they are using the same surgeons and the same anesthesiologists as in the public system,” … In Quebec and Ontario, where governments have released data in response to freedom of information requests, the surgeries performed in for-profit facilities have been shown to be “two or three times as expensive for such operations as cataracts and knees.”
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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