OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2021 federal budget in the House of Commons on Monday. Here are some highlights from her speech, as well as quotes from opposition leaders.
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OTTAWA - Groups representing thousands of doctors and nurses are asking the federal Liberals to help Canada s strained health-care system in their upcoming budget, flagging concerns about lack of access to family doctors as well as chronic staff shortages.
OTTAWA - Groups representing thousands of doctors and nurses are asking the federal Liberals to help Canada s strained health-care system in their upcoming budget, flagging concerns about lack of access to family doctors as well as chronic staff shortages.
The Canadian Medical Association estimates about five million Canadians don t have a primary care physician, or family health-care team, which has spillover effects into other parts of the health-care system.
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Winnipeg Free Press By: Linda Silas and Darlene Jackson Posted:
Opinion
As we approach the March 11 anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, nurses across Canada are at their breaking point. We are exhausted, burned out – and angry.
Nurses are on the front lines of the pandemic and our health-care system every day. We see its problems in brutal detail and we have the experience to know what’s needed. We have repeatedly called on decision-makers to address critical staffing shortages and provide basic protections to keep workers safe.
We continue to be disregarded, and the result has been devastating.
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The Canada Pharmacare Act introduced by B.C. MP Peter Julian was defeated in its most recent reading in the house of commons.
Bill C-213 was brought forward as a private member bill. The purpose of the bill was to “establish a universal single-payer, comprehensive and public pharmacare plan” which will give access to prescription drugs to everyone eligible in the Canadian healthcare system. This is in addition to things covered by healthcare like doctor’s visits and certain medical procedures.
In Canada, the healthcare system is administered by each province and territory, and last November, Singh reassured Canadians that a national pharmacare would not take over provinces and territories legislating their own health care plan.