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July 2007: Our Less Than Stellar Foreign Relations
Canada plays sordid role in suppression of democracy in Haiti Canadians generally have a very positive impression of their country’s role in…
Canadian workers’ paycheques in 30-year holding pattern : Study
OTTAWA – Canadians are working harder and smarter, contributing to a growing economy, but their paycheques have been stagnant for the past…
Trees and Jobs Wasted in Rush to Beat Beetle, Study Warns
Jointly issued by: BC Federation of Labour; BC Government and Service Employees’ Union; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office; Communications Energy…
Atlantica proponents face PR challenge
The Atlantica conference has drawn renewed attention to plans for a cross-border economic trading zone. Organizers say they want to tone down…
June 2007: The Wrong “Solution” To Pollution
Nuclear power won’t clean up the Alberta tar sands The very biggest environmental issue in Canada is the Alberta oil sands project.…
June 2007: Whose Canada?
Who’ll shape our future? All Canadians or just the élites? The CCPA has been for more than two decades at the forefront…
Public Solutions Could be Undermined by Private Interests
Long waits for elective surgery and privatization are the price Canadians must pay for their well-intentioned but fatally flawed public health care…
Government Not Enforcing Health Laws
The provincial government recently stated that user charges for emergency health care services provided at the new False Creek Urgent Care Centre…
No magic wand to deal with health care strikes
After the recent 15-hour strike at the IWK Hospital (the first there since 1981), the Nova Scotia government is once again considering…
La privatisation : le cheval de Troie des services publics
Une des principales dynamiques de notre époque est la pression exercée sur les gouvernements pour offrir plus de services publics en utilisant…
Innovative surgical projects show how waitlists can be solved: Submission to BC ‘conversation on health’
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Surgical waitlists can be dramatically cut if the BC government takes leadership by scaling…
Canada’s public health care system holds answers to surgery wait times
(Ottawa) Surgical waitlists can be dramatically cut if governments develop a strategy to scale up innovations already underway in the public health…