Extra $25.8-billion request brings federal spending up 4.6 per cent this year to $433-billion
One-third of Supplementary Estimates (B) spending is tied to Budget 2022 items, with another third tied to Indigenous reconciliation, and the rest to new spending, according to a Parliamentary Budget Officer analysis.
For a world-class health system, Canada needs to think bigger
Canada must break down the silos in our health system, adjust our delivery models, modernize physical and digital infrastructure, and support a better flow of data, information, and resources.
A lot wrong with Poilievre’s recent video on his bonkers drug policy
No public figure should use real human misery as the backdrop for a political pitch. If he insisted on doing so, how much better it would have been if he’d stayed a night in the tent city, and talked to the people who live there. That way, he could have told them how he would improve their lives, and perhaps gain a better understanding of their problems. Using them as props to peddle his snake oil was disgraceful.
Committee treating MAID as ‘beneficial solution to all forms of suffering’ despite ‘deeply problematic reports’ of its use, warn disability advocates
Conservative Senator Yonah Martin says witness testimony shows the ‘worst fears’ expressed by disability advocates in previous MAID studies ‘have become a reality.’
Significant policy shifts have been made, but government still leaving surrogacy families behind
It is time the government and all Parliamentarians look to include a 15-week benefit for parents via surrogacy in this much-needed EI modernization. Because it’s 2022.
Rouleau Inquiry lifts lid on ‘federal, provincial, municipal dysfunction in crisis management and policing,’ say politicos
Testimony from federal officials last week shown light on the earliest and final days of the Freedom Convoy protests, discussions around the potential for ‘serious violence’ leading up to the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act, and why the federal government needed to step up.
Thank you for your service, Deena Hinshaw, writes Alan Levy
Imagine working night and day to protect the health of the people of Alberta and then being publicly dismissed because of ideology and political game-playing by the premier of the province. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, who served as Alberta’s chief medical officer and who was replaced on Nov. 14 by Dr. Mark Joffe, an Alberta Health Services […]
Fighting the next health crisis
The best way for Canada to contribute to the development of new antibiotics is for the government to play a major role in aligning firms and universities, and to fund research.
Prepaid payments boost rollout of Canada’s new dental care benefit
Eligible Canadians will soon receive access to a new national dental care benefit that will give children with families who make less than $90,000 a year as much as $650 per child to care for their teeth. To qualify for the initial phase of the benefit, families will need to attest that they have booked […]
Even with COVID receding, economic decision-making not getting any easier
As Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem has said, governments knew how to turn off the economy to try to slow the spread of the virus, but trying to figure out how to restart it properly is another matter.
