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Farewell, consumer carbon tax

  • Canada needs predictability on environment and economic policies to create a competitive advantage over the chaos being generated by the U.S. administration. That should
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND | March 7, 2025
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney said he would rely more on the industrial carbon tax, arguing it would make large polluters pay, not households. The Hill Times photograph Andrew Meade

Farewell, consumer carbon tax

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND | March 7, 2025
  • Canada needs predictability on environment and economic policies to create a competitive advantage over the chaos being generated by the U.S. administration. That should

Farewell, consumer carbon tax

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND | March 7, 2025
  • Canada needs predictability on environment and economic policies to create a competitive advantage over the chaos being generated by the U.S. administration. That should
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney said he would rely more on the industrial carbon tax, arguing it would make large polluters pay, not households. The Hill Times photograph Andrew Meade

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
Then-Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured in 2022. Fourteen per cent, or 4.7 million Canadians, do not have regular access to a primary heath caregiver. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.
Then-Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured in 2022. Fourteen per cent, or 4.7 million Canadians, do not have regular access to a primary heath caregiver. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Health care in Canada is in crisis

  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, centre, at a June 19, 2023, press conference. Nothing much seems to be going on to fix the problems with our quickly eroding public health-care 'system,' write the authors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Health care in Canada is in crisis

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening

Health care in Canada is in crisis

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening
Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, centre, at a June 19, 2023, press conference. Nothing much seems to be going on to fix the problems with our quickly eroding public health-care 'system,' write the authors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
Premiers attend a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 7, after the release of the federal government’s updated health-care deal with provinces. The forthcoming bilateral federal-provincial health-care funding agreements provide an opportunity and mechanism to formally look at intergovernmental collaboration. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent
Premiers attend a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 7, after the release of the federal government’s updated health-care deal with provinces. The forthcoming bilateral federal-provincial health-care funding agreements provide an opportunity and mechanism to formally look at intergovernmental collaboration. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Health-care reform is a fiscal imperative

  • Federal Health Minister Philpott displayed unusual candour when she said recently that Canada spends more per capita on health care than many other countries
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND | March 6, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, with New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne at a first ministers' meeting in December. Don Drummond writes that fiscal realities will force politicians to reform the health-care system. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Health-care reform is a fiscal imperative

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND | March 6, 2017
  • Federal Health Minister Philpott displayed unusual candour when she said recently that Canada spends more per capita on health care than many other countries

Health-care reform is a fiscal imperative

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND | March 6, 2017
  • Federal Health Minister Philpott displayed unusual candour when she said recently that Canada spends more per capita on health care than many other countries
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, with New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne at a first ministers' meeting in December. Don Drummond writes that fiscal realities will force politicians to reform the health-care system. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Health negotiations need to go beyond money squabbling

  • Canadians tuned out the recent federal-provincial meetings on health care, dismissing them as just another spat over money. Instead of a national agreement, the
FeatureBY CHRIS SIMPSON, DON DRUMMOND | March 6, 2017
Having Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a guest of the premiers' Council of the Federation is one way that substantive talks could happen about the future of health care in Canada, write Chris Simpson and Don Drummond. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Health negotiations need to go beyond money squabbling

FeatureBY CHRIS SIMPSON, DON DRUMMOND | March 6, 2017
  • Canadians tuned out the recent federal-provincial meetings on health care, dismissing them as just another spat over money. Instead of a national agreement, the

Health negotiations need to go beyond money squabbling

FeatureBY CHRIS SIMPSON, DON DRUMMOND | March 6, 2017
  • Canadians tuned out the recent federal-provincial meetings on health care, dismissing them as just another spat over money. Instead of a national agreement, the
Having Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a guest of the premiers' Council of the Federation is one way that substantive talks could happen about the future of health care in Canada, write Chris Simpson and Don Drummond. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
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