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Just say no to industry influence on Canadian drug regulation—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–Drug regulation in Canada is carried out in a very secretive manner because of the cozy relationship between…
October 2004: Our Manufactured Health-Care Crisis
Governments cut taxes to deny themselves Medicare Funding Canadians can be excused if they thought the healthcare “crisis” was over, what with the Romanow Report…
Bad Medicine
Trade treaties, privatization and health care reform in Canada Download 584.89 KB 192 pages
Trade treaties heighten privatization threat to Medicare and health care reform: new study
Ottawa — Trade treaty rules and proliferating health care privatization are a dangerous mixture that threatens Medicare and health care reform in Canada, warns a…
Health co-operatives
New Glasgow initiative could set precedent The recent initiative to form a health co-op in Pictou County has stirred up controversy. The proponents intend to…
Can We Afford to Sustain Medicare? A Strong Role for Federal Government
A Strong Role for Federal Government Download 464.64 KB 20 pages
July 2004: Drugs Are Not Enough
Access to needed drugs only part of the solution to global ills, injustice The Access To Drugs movement, in particular the focus on anti-HIV drugs,…
July 2004: Let’s Learn from F.D.R.
Our jobless youth could be doing needed environmental repair work Here we are in the summer of 2004, fortunate to be living in one of…
What will the election mean for Canada’s kids?
With a federal campaign on, promises are flying faster than the puck at a playoff game. Most recently, Paul Martin pledged several billion dollars for…
June 2004: Corporate “Sick Shops”
P3 hospitals are bad for patients, for care-givers, and taxpayers Health care corporations push whenever they can for privatized health care, and the focus of…
Making Early Childhood Development a Priority
Lessons from Vancouver Download 563.85 KB 12 pages
Ottawa takes baby steps while BC backtracks on child care
“I have tried 5 different babysitters. I wish I could send my child back to the daycare centre; he loved it there – but when…
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