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The Monitor, March/April 2018
Cannabis Capitalism Download 5.2 MB Canada is only months away from legalizing and regulating the production, sale and use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational…
Fast Facts: Health Care Blind Spot
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on January 17, 2018 Manitoba’s healthcare system is undergoing major changes. Many Manitobans fear that the changes are…
Missing the Mark: Federal midterm report card
Download 11.72 MB 23 pages This report card reviews the federal government’s progress in 16 key policy areas at the halfway mark of their term.…
Cost Savings Resulting from a National Pharmacare Program
Download 281.79 KB9 pages On September 28th, 2017, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) will release its estimates of the costs of “single-payer universal first-dollar prescription…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
September 2017 Download 2.79 MB12 pages In this issue: New political terrain, new possibilities, and new challenges CCPA-BC’s 20th Anniversary Gala with Senator Murray Sinclair…
“I foresee serious criminal liability problems.”
It’s time to name and shame the corporate bosses responsible for tobacco-related diseases and deaths. And to legislate.
Budget 2017/18 Health Care Changes Concerning
Changes to Manitoba’s Health Care system are coming fast and furious. This will invariably impact key services we all rely on and limit access to…
Education vs. groceries
University student food insecurity in Manitoba For full citations and figures read PDF A recent study conducted at the University of Manitoba (U of M)…
Access to seniors’ care worse today than in 2001: Bold action needed
It is becoming far too common. Many of us have a parent, relative or neighbour who has struggled to get the home support they need.…
Infographic: Privatization and declining access to BC seniors’ care
For the past 16 years, underfunding, privatization and fragmentation of the system have left many seniors, their families and communities patching together care and even…
Privatization & Declining Access to BC Seniors’ Care
An urgent call for policy change Download 10.78 MB 32 pages Home and community care services in BC—home health care, assisted living and residential care—require…
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