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The NDP and price of doctors
Categories: Conservatives, Health, NDP
The NDP is promising to add 1,200 doctors over the next 10 years and has a thought-out plan. But is it really accounting for all the additional costs to the health-care system?
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Surgical wait times: how much progress have we really made?
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP
Most parties - and governments - appear to believe progress has been made reducing surgical wait times. But when you look closer that may not be the case.
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The National Pharmaceutical Strategy: a 'prescription unfilled'
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP
In 2004, Ottawa and the provinces promised a National Pharmaceutical Strategy to make prescription drugs more accessible. But as David McKie reports that promise is far from being filled.
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NDP charge: the Liberals oppose pharmacare. Really?
Categories: Health, Liberals, NDP
The NDP says Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff doesn't support a national pharmacare program. That's splitting a big fat hair and the NDP should know better.
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Food safety: the forgotten issue?
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP
In 2008, reeling from the tainted meat crisis, federal leaders promised to revamp Canada's food safety system. This time, there is money on the table but no real plans for a problem that spans the globe.
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NDP targets Ignatieff on abortion issue
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, NDP, Women
In a 'reality check' of its own, the NDP says Ignatieff's voting record does not match his words on abortion and a woman's right to choose. Sorry, NDP, that's a bit of a stretch.
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Conservatives: Health funding 'at an all-time high'
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals
The Conservative claim: We've increased health-care funding to an all-time high. True, but that is because the law, established by a former Liberal PM, mandates that spending.
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Platform comparison: the policies in common
Categories: Conservatives, Health, Liberals, Seniors
Singing from the same hymnbook? The Conservatives, Liberals and NDP have at least five policy planks in common. We compare and contrast.
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The Conservatives and health-care transfers
Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Health, Stephen Harper
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says his party's been consistent about continuing health transfers to the provinces after 2014. But it is more like consistently vague.
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A fitness tax credit with a catch or two, no pun intended
Categories: Health, Stephen Harper
Conservative proposal: a fitness tax credit for adults. Is a $75 annual refund enough to get you off the couch?
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