Health Care Privatization
The federal government must enforce the letter and the spirit of the Canada Health Act and enact strong penalties on provinces that allow private clinics. Federal and provincial governments need to work together to ensure a strengthened public health care system that provides timely, quality health care services to all Canadians, not just for those who can afford to pay.
Addressing COVID-19 outbreaks in seniors’ care homes requires fixing the working conditions in them
Reports continue to pour in of COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care, assisted living and other seniors' care homes. More than ...
COVID-19 shows that pharmacare is needed now
An estimated 8 million people have applied for Canada's emergency relief benefit, and many of them have lost access to ...
Seniors’ care was in crisis before COVID-19
A crisis is growing in seniors’ care homes, exposing how older people are particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of COVID-19. But ...
Statement on pharmacare in Canada
Over 170 national and provincial organizations from all regions across Canada released a joint statement calling on the new federal ...
Waiting for outcome of for-profit doctor’s case against medicare
Members of the Council of Canadians Vancouver/Burnaby Chapter were on courthouse steps with signs of support on the first day ...
Federal Election, Ontario Health Care
I thought a lot about public health care on election night, and how the impacts of the federal election would ...
A Green New Deal for public health care
This is part of a series on sparking change with a Green New Deal. When I first started working on ...
Don’t let Doug Ford cut your health care
You’ve likely heard that Doug Ford has tabled his first budget bill. In it, his PC party proposes deep ...
