EDITORIAL – Feeling like a healthcare football these days
An ArmchairmMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. YOU’LL HAVE to excuse me if I’m feeling like the proverbial football these days when it comes to my health care, [Continue]
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HEALTH CARE – Don’t let seniors’ care become private equity money maker
By MARGARET McGREGOR and LISA RONALD EvidenceNework.ca LATE LAST YEAR, the large trans-national insurance company Anbang announced its intention to purchase a majority [Continue]
IN THE HOUSE – ‘Seniors deserve to know who owns their homes’
An exchange between MP Cathy McLeod, and other Conservatives, and Minister of Innovation Navdeep Bains on Thursday, Feb. 23 during Question Period, on the sale of Retirement [Continue]
HEALTH – Strategies for tackling chronic pain are missing in debate over opioid crisis solutions
By VIVIAN TAM and JACQUELINE CARVERHILL EvidenceNework.ca A CALL TO the emergency room announced that the ambulance was on its way. Joey, a middle-aged oilfield worker, was [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Accept no bafflegab from candidates on two major local issues: healthcare and Ajax
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WEEKS BEFORE the B.C. election campaign is even officially underway, the pivotal issues in the two Kamloops ridings have [Continue]
Ban on smoking in parks is up in the air
NEWS/ HEALTH – Fed up with second-hand smoke in Riverside Park, Bob Wren has challenged the City to ban smoking in parks as other communities have done. Wren went [Continue]
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