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No mystery behind crisis in Ontario hospitals: Study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The claim that health spending in Ontario is out of control has no factual basis, according to a…
A budget for a healthy, sustainable Manitoba
Government has a revenue problem, not a spending problem: Alternative Budget READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Winnipeg – Manitobans will lose public services they value…
Unlimited License
Public debates over controversial biotechnologies often revolve around questions about who will control them and what values will guide their development. Because patent policies shape…
Getting rid of the Reference Drug Program would be a costly mistake
New CCPA report says program saves Pharmacare millions and should be retained CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy…
Paying for What Works
BC’s Experience With the Reference Drug Program as a Model for Rational Policy Making Download 172.4 KB 23 pages
Leaked health ministry document shows cost transfer to sick, elderly
When the provincial government announced the sweeping income tax cuts last June, it promised British Columbians more money in our pockets. It sounded good on…
Globalization, trade deals and drugs
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Canadian government concessions to the big multinational pharmaceutical companies, including an extension of their monopoly on new drugs…
Globalization, Trade Deals and Drugs
Heads the Industry Wins, Tails Canada Loses Download 140.16 KB
Cut the rhetoric, not health care
It is an old rule of persuasion: people are rarely receptive right away; you have to work at making them so. If you want to…
Canada blocks access to cheap medicines
Canada could find itself in a very embarrassing position at the WTO meetings in Qatar this weekend. We could be one of just five countries…
Women’s Health and Social Inequality
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