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L’accès aux médicaments sur ordonnance: État de la situation
Rapport sur les audiences de la Coalition canadienne de la santé relativement au Régime d’assurance-médicaments public et universel Download 1.02 MB35 pages Attachments L’accès aux…
Fast Facts: Putting Our Housing in Order
2008 State of the Inner City Report Download 501.41 KB 2 pages
Invisible women, concrete barriers
Refugee women in Nova Scotia Imagine that your child has a broken arm and you have to wait two weeks to seek medical treatment. Imagine…
Fast Facts: Greed is Not Enough
Reforming Medicare Download 556.78 KB 2 pages
November 2008: Inequality Spawns Sickness
Excerpts from Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition
November 2008: The Worst Time For the Worst Government
Canadians need a rebuilt welfare state, not a broken one Ralph Nader, the famous American consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate, writing recently in The…
Compulsory arbitration no substitute for right to strike in health care: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX, October 28, 2008-Two specialists in industrial relations insist that compulsory arbitration is not a good substitute for…
October 2008: Prescription for Trouble
Government’s links to Big Pharma threat to public health Does anyone remember that the Conservative party, just four years ago, promised to implement a national…
October 2008: Horrendous Health and Environmental Toll
Downstream from the tar sands, people are sick, dying There’s deformed pickerel in Lake Athabasca… Pushed-in faces, bulging eyes, humped back, crooked tails… never used…
October 2008: Health Canada and Drug Safety
More people exposed to unsafe drugs before withdrawal Evaluating the safety of prescription drugs prior to approval and monitoring their safety once they have been…
The Harper Record
This book is one in a series of CCPA publications that have examined the records of Canadian federal governments during the duration of their tenure.…
September 2008: A New Pension Debate?
Most workers today are facing bleak retirement prospects Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a big Canadian pensions debate, centred mainly on the…
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