Farewell from Shannon Daub
How to meet Canada’s 2030 climate targets
Fires & migrant farmworkers
COVID-19’s growing toll on hospitals and public health
Assessing the new protections for platform workers
BC can afford more investments in social and environmental priorities
Donor spotlight: Kirsten Krismer
The CCPA-BC’s 2023 gala
Health, health care system, pharmacare
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A new commitment to public dental insurance was one of the key parts of the March 2022 Supply and Confidence Agreement between the NDP and Liberal parties. This new form of insurance is unfolding over three distinct phases between 2022 and 2025.
OTTAWA—The federal government’s new national public dental care plan is the most significant expansion of public health care in decades, but it’s not funded enough to include everyone who needs access to the plan, says a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The Ontario government plans to significantly expand publicly funded surgeries and diagnostic procedures performed in for-profit facilities.
In May 2023, the government passed new legislation (Bill 60) which will encourage the growth of this for-profit sector and expand the types of surgical and diagnostic procedures allowed to be performed outside of hospitals. Drawing on Freedom of Information requests, financial and statistical analysis, and a review of the research literature and policy experience, this report evaluates the government’s policy direction.
BC’s carbon crossroads: The Energy Action Framework takes the wrong path
Taxing land wealth for the public good: Provincial policy options
Here’s how BC should protect app-based workers
British Columbia’s regulation of dikes full of leaks and in need of overhaul
Landmark health care case spotlights problems of a profit-centred system
Some important updates from our team at CCPA-BC
2023 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture with Ha-Joon Chang
Save the date for our annual in-person gala: Nov. 23, 2023
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press July 15, 2023
Five years after public health insurance was rescinded from international students in Manitoba, and in the aftermath of the most volatile years of the COVID-19 pandemic, this report brings together testimonials shared by international students across a variety of venues to highlight the ongoing challenges they face with respect to healthcare access and the active ways inwhich students themselves have engaged in advocacy around this issue.
Manitoba's long-term care and home care systems were some of the hardest hit sectors of healthcare when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020. Over seven hundred residents of long-term care died of COVID-19 related illness while hundreds of clients who rely on home care experienced care cancellations. Through a survey of 1027 unionized workers in Manitoba's continuing care system (long-term care and home care) we investigate the conditions of work in the sector three years on from the outbreak of COVID-19.
COVID-19’s impact on the home care sector has been devastating. Across Canada, it is well documented that workers and older people receiving care have experienced gruelling and isolating working and living conditions respectively. In Manitoba, most home care workers are im/migrants. While there is some emerging research on the experiences of im/migrant home care workers in Manitoba, there is a dearth of public knowledge about their experiences working and living in the province.
Manitoba health care is at a crossroads. From emergency care to home care, the entire system is at a breaking point caused by Pallister-era decisions to close emergency rooms and privatize services. Instead of stepping up to fix these problems, Premier Stefanson has carried on the same agenda of cuts and privatization.