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2016 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Another Year, No Improvement Download 841.61 KB32 pages This year’s Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia finds that while there was…
22.5% of N.S. children living in poverty: 2016 Child and Family Poverty Report Card
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX—While there was a slight decrease in child poverty nationally between 2013 and 2014, the child poverty rate in Nova…
The biggest source of waste in Canadian health care? The private, for-profit sector
Brian Day’s legal battle against universal public health care in Canada is now before the BC Supreme Court. Day—along with other would-be profit-makers—are hawking unprecedented…
Physical Environments for Long-term Care
Ideas Worth Sharing Download 2.02 MB 114 pages This book provides concrete examples of promising practices for physical environments in long-term residential care: everything from…
Fast Facts: Private Long Term Care & Home Care Zombies
UBC economist Robert Evans calls user fees in health care zombies, a policy option that keeps surfacing despite being killed over and over again by…
BC Commentary: A review of provincial social, economic and environmental trends
Fall 2016, Volume 19, Number 3 Download 1.45 MB8 pages Inside this issue: We can fix Vancouver’s broken housing market, by Marc Lee Working for…
Real health care would be maintaining wellness, not treating illness
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New child benefit is good, not great
2013 2014 2017 pre-CCB 2017 post-CCB Actual 11.2% 8.5% Modelled by SPSD/M 8.6% 8.7% 7.6% 6.0% Modelled by ESDC unknown unknown Unknown…
Eliminating unfair MSP premiums doesn’t have to be complicated
In an interview with Vaughn Palmer earlier this summer, the Premier confirmed her government has changed its tune on the Medical Services Plan (MSP) tax,…
Growing old is no great accomplishment, but staying healthy is
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BC should eliminate the MSP. Here are two better options.
Download 1.07 MB12 pages This short paper offers two options for replacing the MSP in BC with a fairer system. It originally appeared as a post…
Are we destined to become our parents? What your folks’ income says about you
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