The Canada Health Consumer Index compares the performance of Canada’s ten provincial healthcare systems from the perspective of the consumer.
Year: 2011
Media Release – Canada Health Consumer Index 2011
The fourth annual Canada Health Consumer Index evaluates healthcare-system performance in the ten provinces from the perspective of the consumer. Ontario finishes in first place in this year’s report, with British Columbia and New Brunswick finishing in a tie for second.
By Attaching no Strings, Flaherty Binds Irate Provinces to Health Plan
Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand denounced Mr. Flaherty’s new 13-year funding formula as “totally unacceptable.” But in fact Quebec and every other provincial government has no choice but to accept it, at least for now. That’s because the Conservatives are asking for nothing in return.
Council Tackles Shortage of Taxis: Major overhaul aims to ease difficulty getting late-night ride
City hall is contemplating a major overhaul of late-night cab and public transit service in Calgary, as holiday revellers com-plain they are being squeezed by a “perfect storm” of travel hindrances.
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
1% Correct – 99% Misguided
What we need today is a movement to convert repossessed properties into affordable rental housing.
Common Sense in Municipal Budgets
One of the presenters in the Toronto municipal budget consultations came up with well reasoned, solid advice.
A Private Solution to the Very Public Problem of First Nations Living Conditions
Here is a prediction: in a week, or two, or three, or six, the CBC and the Globe and the National Post and NDP MP Charlie Angus and Liberal leader Bob Rae will forget about the tiny, suffering northern community of Attawapiskat. And so will the rest of us.
Municipal Mythologies: Infrastructure wish lists aren’t actual deficits
In a world with scarce resources, people want more money spent on something than what is available. But that is not a “deficit.” Otherwise, we have health, education and social deficits, to name a few. In principle, optimal spending would be based on a benefit-cost calculus and programs rejected if benefits are less than cost.
One Reason to Buy a Hybrid
Their extra weight makes them safer in an accident.
Justice Centre Launches 2011 Campus Freedom Index
Today the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms launched the 2011 Campus Freedom Index! According to the report: "The Campus Freedom Index seeks to measure the commitment of Canada’s public universities, as well as student unions, to upholding the rights of...
Jobs and Energy
Where does the president stand… jobs or special interest groups?
Thank God I’m a Country Boy
Rural unemployment continues to fall across the United States.
Where is a Recall Legislation When You Need It?
Brandon property tax to jump 20.3%