Category: Public Goods
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Worse Than You Thought: Ontario Hospital and LTC Staffing
By 2027 the PC healthcare funding plan falls $21.3-billion short, their hospital bed plan falls 500 beds short, their plan to free up hospital capacity by moving hospital patents to … Keep reading »
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There’s Money Galore for Private Clinics – While They Starve Public Healthcare
Actual provincial program spending is much less than “planned.” Provincial spending was $6.4-billion less than planned over the first nine months of the fiscal year 2022/23 according to the Financial … Keep reading »
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Transit Coalition Outlines Key Recommendations for Budget 2023
Important asks for the 2023 federal budget include permanent operational funding for transit systems, public intercity highway bus service, and accessibility and safety improvements. A broad coalition of unions, environmental … Keep reading »
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Provincial Schemes Will Destroy Public Healthcare in Ontario
For decades the Ontario Health Coalition has been on the front line of the fight to safeguard public healthcare against privatization and to protect patients from extra-billing. Few have followed … Keep reading »
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People Want Publicly Run Healthcare
It’s true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven healthcare system. Keep reading »
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Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
The public sector in the US has been shrinking rapidly since the 1990s as a deluge of privatization has, to various degrees, overtaken many so-called public services and institutions. Public … Keep reading »
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33,000 Missing Ontario Hospital Jobs and the Hospital Capacity Crisis
Hospitals in provinces other than Ontario have 18% more staff than hospitals in Ontario. Much, but not all, of this is due to low levels of inpatient staffing in Ontario. … Keep reading »
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Building a Collective Movement Could be a Solution to Transit Woes: Free Transit or Fixing the System?
Ottawa’s light-rail transit system has made headlines in the last years – but not for any good reasons. Trains don’t work in the cold. Technical problems cause frequent delays, and … Keep reading »
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Health Coalition Kicks off Campaign to Save Public Hospitals
The Ontario Health Coalition released a brief on October 26 charging that the Doug Ford government lied to the public about its privatization of Ontario’s public hospital services. The Coalition … Keep reading »
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Educators and Critical Pedagogy: An Antidote to Authoritarianism
The world in which we live increasingly resembles a dystopian novel. The dream of a more democratic world is diminishing as the global assault on democracy expands. The world is … Keep reading »
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Huge Cuts in Public Sector Wages Predicted
The Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO) says that, with inflation, real wages in the public sector will decline 11.3% over the three year period 2021/2 – 2023/4. This would radically … Keep reading »
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Why Our Electricity Prices Can’t Be Left to Bogus ‘Free Markets’
The so-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time that we wind up such bogus electricity markets and return all such public services to the people, to be run cooperatively for their benefit. Keep reading »