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Fast Facts: Where did all the vaccines go?
In the absence of a domestic supply of COVID-19 vaccine, Canada finds itself a begger in a global marketplace in which a handful of multi-national companies hold all the cards….
Fast Facts: Losing the Plot in Manitoba: COVID-19 & Public Spending
One of the few silver linings in the monstrous shadow cast by COVID-19 has been the forced contemplation of the kind of society we would wish for when it passes,…
Fast Facts: Austerity is bad for your health
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 23, 2019 as Three thousand patients in a bind. On March 2, a news release issued by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority…
Fast Facts: Contracting Out Enhanced Home Care Program
Among the many recent changes by the Pallister government to health care was a contract with two private companies to operate the Enhanced Home Care Program (EHCP). This will provide…
Fast Facts: Caring for Home Care in Manitoba
In January, the government released the Toews report The Future of Home Care Services in Manitoba. The report was commissioned by the NDP government in 2015 as a follow up…
Evidence-based Policy – wouldn’t that be a change
The case for personal care homes Budget 2016 pledges $160 million to create 1,200 new Personal Home Care (PCH) spaces. It is to be hoped that this laudable move will…
UNSPUN: Home care in Manitoba best kept public
UNSPUN is the 2016 provincial election commentary series from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba Manitoba’s Home Care program was launched in 1974 under the guidance of the late…
Fast Facts: Wealth Care vs Health Care
The debate around the private financing of Canada’s health care system has recently been revived as one of a series of video shorts on human rights issues in Winnipeg’s Canadian…
Fast Facts: The Education Property Tax Rebate
Do we seniors really need it? This commentary was also published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Oct 17, 2013. The opposition’s unproductive filibuster of the provincial 2013 budget increase…
Fast Facts: When will they ever learn?
OECD report repeats flawed analysis The OECD’s latest report on Canada’s economy emphasizes the challenge of rising healthcare costs. It contains several propositions, but only three have received media coverage…
Fast Facts: Health Care – A Timely Reminder
Last month the Commonwealth Fund – a United States organization promoting evidence-based quality health care in that country – published a study comparing the U.S. healthcare system with that of…
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