Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s no easy feat in the often-intractable and rigid Canadian health system, but the payoff can be immense for patients and care providers
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Nurse practitioners the solution to Canada’s health care woes
Reading Time: 4 minutes So why aren’t we making use of this important human resource?
New breast screening guidelines fail Canadian women
Reading Time: 4 minutes Outdated material used by the task force could result in the deaths of far too many women. A new set of guidelines must be drawn up
Canada needs an official poverty line
Reading Time: 3 minutes Having a clearly-defined poverty line enables a government to set targets and focus its policy agenda on effective change
Bill C-75 reforms too little, too late to respond to domestic violence
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada needs a national agency to review all domestic homicides and create an integrated domestic violence safety system
Lifting the veil off the role of women in health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a significant lack of gender parity in health leadership positions. Pay equity and workplace safety must also be addressed
Seeing red about Canada’s inadequate AIDS policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need more courageous policy action at all levels of government to address the structural drivers of HIV/AIDS
The loudest voices against tax reform are not neutral
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost absent in the debate about proposed Canadian changes are any voices defending the idea of tax fairness
The sky is falling on small business – or is it?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Proposed tax changes actually bring more fairness to the system, helping to close loopholes and eliminate back-door strategies to hide income
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