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A home support worker on an Uncertain Future for Seniors
https://vimeo.com/4153703 Accesible, high-quality care for seniors : this issue touches everyone at some point in their lives — seniors receiving health services, people caring for…
A geriatric physician on an Uncertain Future for Seniors
A geriatric physician on an Uncertain Future for Seniors Accesible, high-quality care for seniors: this issue touches everyone at some point in their lives —…
What’s in a Scan?
How well are consumers informed about the benefits and harms related to screening technology (CT and PET scans) in Canada? Download 1.25 MB48 pages Attachments…
They Deserve Better
The long-term care experience in Canada and Scandanavia “They Deserve Better.” These words of one worker capture the essential message we heard in researching this…
A Movement of Ideas
The World Social Forum, is it a model for political change? Download 561.78 KB 19 pages
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2009
Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, sexuality and communities of colour This issue of OS/OS unravels the seemingly impenetrable and often unquestioned connections between youth, sex…
An Open Letter to Margaret Wente
We need to think more analytically about harm reduction This is an updated form of a letter I sent to Globe & Mail columnist Margaret…
Fast Facts: Rent Control in Manitoba
Challenging the Myths Download 483.89 KB 2 pages
Financing the Health Care System
Is Long-term Sustainability Possible? Download 212.31 KB15 pages
CCPA report demonstrates Medicare’s financial viability
Publicly funded health care continues to be affordable in Canada according to a recent Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ analysis, Financing the Health Care System:…
Life Before Pharmacare
Report on the Canadian Health Coalition’s Hearings into a Universal Public Drug Plan Download 1.02 MB35 pages Attachments L’accès aux médicaments sur ordonnance: État de…
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