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Don’t count out medicare yet
Beware of stumping politicians with poker faces and empty hands These days, public health care seems like a high-stakes TV poker game complete with bluffers…
December 2005: Monitoring Medicare’s Murder
Public awakens to assassination of Medicare, but is it too late? The slow, very public murder of Medicare as a universal, publicly-funded, single-tier health system…
The GATS and South Africa’s National Health Act
A Cautionary Tale Download 341.76 KB40 pages This new study shows how South Africa’s flagship health legislation conflicts with binding commitments the former apartheid regime…
November 2005: Cancer—The Price of Progress
Industrial pollution cancer just another cost of doing business My concern about the rising incidence of cancer prompted me to start writing a book in…
October 2005: Supreme Court Jeopardizes Women’s Right to Health
Jurists’ private insurance ruling especially negative for women On June 9, 2005, a bare majority of justices of the Supreme Court (four of seven) overturned…
Survey of young workers should prompt rethink of child and youth employment standards
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new study that surveyed public school students raises concerns that BC’s employment regulations are leaving children…
Child and Youth Employment Standards
The Experience of Young Workers Under BC’s New Policy Regime Download 647.71 KB40 pages Attachments SUMMARY: Child and Youth Employment Standards
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2005, Volume 8, Number 3 Download 703.22 KB8 pages Inside this issue: After the Referendum: What Next for Electoral Reform? Maximizing Benefits from the…
September 2005: What’s Your Poison?
Life in a toxic environment is getting ever more precarious Smog-alert days this past summer were more common than days when the air was marginally…
September 2005: Selling Sickness
Drug companies profit hugely from creating “diseases,” then the “cures” How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients by Ray Moynihan…
Let’s make day care a great place to learn
CANADIANS ARE increasingly aware of how important the early years are to the development of children. We know that children’s future educational and career opportunities…
July 2005: The Best Health Care Money Can Buy?
Supreme Court ruling pushes Medicare to brink of two-tier abyss The Supreme Court’s recent decision favouring private health insurance didn’t sound the death knell for…
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