Healthcare

CHARBONNEAU – Provinces don’t want/want to meet with feds over health care

December 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

PROVINCES ARE SENDING mixed messages. First they meet but reject previously negotiated terms. A month later, they want to meet but are unwilling to negotiate. Make up your [Continue]

LETTER – Bill 36 is an outrageous attack on fundamental rights and freedoms

November 27, 2022 // 6 Comments

A letter I sent this morning to the Premier and Health Minister. Good Morning First let me say that I have been a lifelong supporter of the NDP. I was a delegate to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Will a lower standard of health care become permanent?

November 8, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HAVE YOU EVER felt you needed to talk to a doctor but didn’t do so because a) you knew it would be weeks before you could get an [Continue]

PETERS – Moving away from half-measures in the B.C. healthcare system

October 8, 2022 // 1 Comment

WE HEARD ANOTHER MEASURE of our public healthcare crisis recently. A whopping 40 per cent of Kamloops residents don’t have a family doctor — well above the provincial [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Half can’t find a doctor or get a timely appointment

September 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE September 8, 2022 – When Dr. David Eaton retires later this year, 1,400 of the approximately 2,800 people of Wheatley, Ont. will be losing their [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Millions have chronic difficulty getting health care

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE September 7, 2022 – A summer of health care related horror stories – from emergency room closures to doctor shortages to surgery delays – is [Continue]