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June 2006: Health Canada Delay Endangers Women
Agency to regulate Human Reproduction Act still not set up March 29, 2006 was the second anniversary of the passage into law of Canada’s Assisted…
Mending Medicare
Analysis and Commentary on Canada’s Health Care Crisis Download 730.87 KB 24 pages Mending Medicare appeared as a special 24-page supplement in the May 2006…
May 2006: Mending Medicare: Analysis and Commentary on Canada’s Health Care Crisis
Special 24-page supplement Download 730.87 KB Mending Medicare appeared as a special 24-page supplement in the May 2006 issue of The CCPA Monitor, the CCPA’s…
May 2006: Feeding the Sleeping Pill Addiction
Insomniacs becoming collateral damage in sleep-meds war I recently woke up at three in the morning with the chilling words “collateral damage” ringing in my…
April 2006: The Topic of Cancer
It’s sick to make sickness essential for making profits If we view the health care delivery system as a social system, it becomes amenable to…
Lessons from Alberta
The Medicare Advantage Alberta Premier Ralph Klein likes to call his contribution to politics the “Alberta Advantage”. Unfortunately, if he gets his way with Alberta’s…
February 2006: Your Pension Contributions at Work
CPP is investing in bombs, tobacco, and corporate criminals We Canadians like to think that we play a benevolent role in the world as humanitarians…
February 2006: Comparing Public and Private Health Care
Canada’s public health care system has 10 clear advantages Proponents of turning more of Canada’s public Medicare system over to private care providers could only…
Public solutions to health care wait lists
Waits for care are the biggest political issue facing Canadian health care—a priority reflected in the accord reached by the federal and provincial health ministers…
Genuine solutions to health care wait-time problem lie in the public sector
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that there are public sector solutions…
An open letter to the CBC in response to “Medicare Schmedicare”
Dear Sirs and Madams: Last week John Doyle of the Globe and Mail told us that the CBC had decided not to air a documentary…
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