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Work Life: For the Care We All Deserve
Building Better Long-Term Care in Manitoba The long-term care (LTC) sector in Manitoba is facing serious challenges. Manitoba, like the rest of Canada, is faced…
Investor alert: TSX over-valued due to a “carbon bubble”
Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events from drought to floods…
2013 living wage calculation: costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver rising faster than inflation
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – $19.62 is the 2013 Vancouver living wage, according to a report released today that calculates the hourly wage…
Budget cuts will exacerbate food safety issues
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Continued reductions in access to seniors care lead to hospital overcrowding, longer wait times: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) BC seniors face continued reductions in access to key home and community care services, with serious consequences…
Caring for BC’s Aging Population
Improving Health Care for All Download 3.5 MB33 pages Correction 10/Sept/2012: The original version of this report, published July 11, 2012, contained an error in…
Better seniors care a solution to overcrowded hospitals and surgery wait times
A recent landmark investigation by BC’s Ombudsperson highlighted the serious problems seniors experience in accessing affordable high-quality home and community-based services (such as residential care,…
Infographic: BC needs more, not fewer, services for seniors
Read the news release here.
Killer Pensions
Pension funds force Canadians to invest in war industries In the microcosm of our daily lives, many Canadians make politically-conscious choices about what to buy.…
Envisioning the Future of Medicare: Romanow Keynote Speech
On Friday June 15th, former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow gave the keynote address to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ conference on “Envisioning the Future…
Federal cuts put refugee health care in danger
On April 25th, 2012 the Federal government announced cuts to most healthcare benefits for refugees that are currently provided by Canada’s Interim Federal Health (IFH)…
50th Anniversary of Medicare
2013 Commemorative Calendar CCPA’s Saskatchewan Office is proud to introduce our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and…
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