Reading Time: 3 minutes The reality is that for-profit provision of health-care services is commonplace among industrialized countries with universal health care
Tag: Law
Beware the spin on charter challenge to Health Care Act
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Brian Day claims that any limits that make it harder for those who can afford it to jump the public queue is unconstitutional
Cracking open Canada’s health-care oyster
Reading Time: 3 minutes Court case in B.C. will force us to look with real clarity at our health system and how it measures up to others around the world
P.E.I. premier speaks truth on internal trade in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The federal government has three legal avenues to ensure trade liberalization between provinces. It should take them
Atlantic Canada could lose Supreme Court seat
Reading Time: 3 minutes New selection process would upend constitutional convention and an important principle of federalism: regional voices matter
Supreme Court employee dismissal decision bad for workers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Given concerns over youth unemployment, the Supreme Court decision is particularly troubling
Rule of law under attack in B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes By imposing a tax on already signed agreements, B.C. is demonstrating a worrisome indifference to the rule of law
Turmoil in the South China Sea
Reading Time: 3 minutes China’s ambitions in the South China Sea will have far-reaching international implications well into the future
Killing energy projects only hurts First Nations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stringent environmental oversight already protects native rights to land and water, negating the need for veto rights
Senate feasts on Trudeau’s assisted dying bill
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to try again – this time without the bad luck, the divisions, the parliamentary brinkmanship and the flying elbows