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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…
Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2001
A National Disgrace Download 280.24 KB
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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Trade Agreements and Tobacco Control
How WTO Agreements May Stand in the Way of Reducing Tobacco Use Download 106.27 KB
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2001, Volume 4, Number 4 Download 138.78 KB4 pages Inside this issue: Restructuring Government in BC: Are we asking the right questions? Cutting Pharmacare…
Cutting Pharmacare won’t cut health costs
Having painted itself into a fiscal corner through “dramatic” tax cuts, the BC government is now claiming it cannot afford Pharmacare (the province’s public drug…
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