Friends of Medicare director Chris Galloway says Ottawa shouldn’t give a blank cheque that could allow provinces like Alberta to dismantle the public system.
CHARLOTTETOWN - Advocates are urging the federal government to increase health care funding and impose more conditions on what the provinces can do with that money.
Friends of Medicare director Chris Galloway says Ottawa shouldn’t give a blank cheque that could allow provinces like Alberta to dismantle the public system.
The 50/50 formula stood until the '70s when it was lowered for tax points and block funding. Ottawa's share of funding is roughly…
The minister in charge of Alberta's hospital system is calling on her federal counterpart to shut down talk of sanctioning the…
TORONTO - As Ontario awaits a promised infusion of money from the federal government for the national child-care program, one…
Alberta's Health Statutes Amendment Act could create a "dual-practice" framework allowing physicians to provide publicly insured…
Universal child-care advocates were disappointed earlier this year when the government's spring economic update did not show any…
Health workers and rights advocates say co-payments, set to take effect on May 1, amount to 'de facto denial of care'.
