The PC government has decided not to go ahead with planned cuts to public health, ambulance and child care funding this year
The cuts were putting a financial strain on cities and towns, that also fund and administrate the three services.
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Government subsidies for business are greater than Canada’s entire defence budget | CBC Radio
Among the countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Canada ranks 25th out of 37 when it comes to public spending on social services as a share of GDP. That’s below that of the United States.
“Austerity-minded governments have been insisting that we can’t afford the rising costs of social programs without more deficits or higher tax burdens on ordinary Canadians. But the argument does not apply, apparently, to tax breaks or subsidies or grants for corporations,” she told The Sunday Edition’s guest host Peter Armstrong.
“I think the general public probably doesn’t even know how much money corporations are receiving from the public purse. And I think it’s in the interest of many people to keep that conversation very quiet.”
‘You disappointed us’: Why is Canada opposing more transparency in drug prices? | CBC News
The fact that transparency is even on the agenda for government
health officials at the WHA is evidence of the mounting international
frustration over high drug prices. The meeting sets priorities for the
World Health Organization (WHO), which is already grappling with the global impact of drug prices on public health.
health officials at the WHA is evidence of the mounting international
frustration over high drug prices. The meeting sets priorities for the
World Health Organization (WHO), which is already grappling with the global impact of drug prices on public health.
Pharmaceutical
companies have long insisted that high prices are necessary to cover
research and development (R&D) costs and keep them in business.
But
with increasing numbers of new drugs priced at hundreds of thousands of
dollars per patient per year, some countries are demanding to see the
industry’s financial data.
The WHA’s transparency resolution
would demand unprecedented disclosure by drug companies about how much
they spend on R&D, including the cost of clinical trials.
CAQ takes ‘pragmatic’ green turn at 1st general meeting since election | CBC News
Several environmentalists were invited to the meeting to help launch discussions surrounding renewable energy projects.
“I’m
very open to listening to citizens and to pressure groups, but the CAQ
is not at their service, it is at the service of all Quebec citizens,”
Legault warned.
Mixed feelings among the party faithful
Not
everyone was pleased with the meeting’s green agenda. One party member
took his turn at the microphone during a session to decry “opening the
door to ecological propaganda.”
But later on, another member said
he was taking part of his time at the microphone to ask the climate
sceptics to bite their tongues.