Posts Tagged ‘privatization’
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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I was recruited to join a private health centre as a doctor. Here is why I said no
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Health care in Canada was built on solidarity, on the idea that access to care should be based on need, not ability to pay. Every doctor and nurse diverted to private-pay clinics is a resource taken away from the collective effort to rebuild universal primary care. There is no justification for pawning the family dishware, so that a lucky few can eat with silver spoons… primary care should be unhurried and personal. That vision doesn’t require $4,000 membership fees.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Three lessons Canada can learn from Australia’s health-care system
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
First, expanding access and improving health outcomes can happen without massive increases in public spending… Second, more private-sector involvement in health care is not a cure-all… Third, minimizing administrative burdens will foster a more efficient and effective health-care system… Canada’s federal government should take the lead in co-ordinating and funding comparative analyses of the two countries’ health-care systems…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, participation, privatization
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Health advocates call on Liberals to keep pharmacare promise ahead of budget
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Carney’s office declined to commit to signing more pharmacare deals over the summer, and promised only to protect what was in place… The law requires the national drug agency to develop a list of essential drugs for a national formulary and to work on a national bulk-purchasing strategy to bring prices down.
Tags: budget, Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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OPSEU/SEFPO sounds alarm on accelerated agenda to gut public education through Ford’s $2.5 billion unaccountable spending spree via the Skills Development Fund
Friday, September 19th, 2025
… if our public college system hemorrhaging jobs while shutting down hundreds upon hundreds of programs, then where are our public dollars going? The answer… is a government-led agenda to systematically defund Ontario colleges, while committing $2.5 billion in public dollars since 2020 to Ontario’s “Skills Development Fund,” a provincial funding envelope designed to cultivate non-college training programs.
Tags: budget, economy, Education, privatization
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Targeted Pharmacare Reforms Could Deliver Access Without a $40 Billion Price Tag
Thursday, September 18th, 2025
With 97 percent of Canadians already having access to some form of drug coverage, a new Conference Report by the C.D. Howe Institute finds that a fiscally responsible approach to universal pharmacare should focus on closing gaps in prescription drug coverage rather than replacing plans with a single-payer system.
Tags: budget, Health, participation, pharmaceutical, privatization
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