Reading Time: 3 minutes The only route to a better appreciation of the cultures in Canada is through exposure, questioning, expressing opinions – even if those opinions are wrong
Month: May 2017
Liberals’ bill usurps democratic rights of Canadian workers
Reading Time: 3 minutes To empower workers and promote democratic principles, MPs should maintain the requirement that unions be certified by a secret ballot vote
Starting with kids defensible step toward universal pharmacare
Reading Time: 4 minutes But Ontario budget commitment won’t solve all the problems of drug access in Canada, not even in Ontario
What Canada can learn from Australia on health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are elements to adapt and ones to avoid, from pharmacare, to home care, to hospital efficiency and funding, to a mix of private and public health delivery
What Trump’s agenda means for Canadian health care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Without provisions strengthening health care under NAFTA, U.S. companies could claim the right to a Canadian private health-care market
The rising global threats to prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nationalistic politicians’ attacks on free markets and economic freedom driven primarily by the support and desires of rural voters
Canada’s refugee health-care program still falls short
Reading Time: 4 minutes Clinics, pharmacies and specialists continue to deny services to refugees and refugee claimants, based on the assumption they’re not covered by IFHP
Can B.C. put integrity and effectiveness ahead of petty politics?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can B.C.’s newly-elected MLAs make something positive out of the minority government mess that appears to be awaiting the province?
‘The bloody ants are back!’
Reading Time: 4 minutes For me, the concept of ant-ridden food, ants in bed and ants all over the bathroom just doesn’t cut it
The Meech Lake Accord and the destruction of a political party
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brian Mulroney’s insistence on crafting constitutional change went from master stroke to the death of the Progressive Conservative Party