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'Third parties' hope to influence voters; Advocate for issues - Infomart - 0 views

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  • National Post Thu Aug 20 2015
  • Dozens of groups with their own political agendas could spend millions in this federal election campaign trying to influence voters. These "third parties" (they aren't political parties) are registered to advocate and run advertising during the federal election campaign. Their goals include: boosting funding for the CBC; improving seniors' care; restoring door-to-door mail delivery; securing better services for veterans; electoral reform in Canada; and strategic voting, to name a few. "The outcome of the election is going to come down to a handful of Conservative swing ridings, so we're trying to build blocks of voters to vote together to defeat the Conservatives," said Amara Possian, election campaign manager with Leadnow, an organization calling for action on climate change, democracy and the economy. The group's entire campaign is about channelling resources from what she says is a 450,000-person community across the country into ridings that can influence the outcome of the federal election.
  • There are 72 Conservative swing ridings where the group believes people who want change can, by voting together, determine whether a Tory candidate wins or loses. Leadnow has teams in a dozen ridings going door-to-door signing people up to vote: Fredericton, Kitchener Centre, London North Centre, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Eglinton-Lawrence, Willowdale, Elmwood-Transcona, Saskatoon-University, Calgary Centre, Edmonton Griesbach, Vancouver-Granville and Port Moody-Coquitlam. The Canada Elections Act regulates third parties that conduct election advertising. A third party "is considered a person or a group other than a candidate, registered party, or electoral district association of a registered party," according to Elections Canada. There are no rules on how much third parties can spend on advertising before the official start of an election campaign. Each third party can spend up to $439,410.81 on election advertising expenses during the 78-day campaign, and a maximum $8,788.22 in any one of the 338 electoral districts.
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  • The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has registered and is taking its message across Canada in an RV with a message on it that says, "Stop the Cuts - Save Canada Post." The Canadian Medical Association is advocating to make seniors' care a ballot issue. It is urging the major political parties to include a national seniors' strategy in their platforms. The group, and an alliance of partner organizations, has launched a website, www.demandaplan.ca, calling for the seniors' strategy. Dr. Chris Simpson, president of the CMA, said the group made a decision to be "very political" this campaign but "staunchly non-partisan." "We kind of see seniors' care as the biggest issue in a very complex problem of a health-care system that isn't really performing very well. And we think if we can fix seniors' care, we'll go a long way to fixing what's wrong with the health-care system," he said.
  • The Canadian Media Guild, a union representing 6,000 workers in the media, including the CBC, is urging the main parties to reverse more than $100 million in cuts to the CBC, boost funding in the coming years and protect CBC/Radio-Canada's independence, among other issues. The National Citizens Coalition, a group advocating for smaller government (once headed by Stephen Harper), will use the campaign to discuss the economy, where it's headed and try to find out what the opposition leaders would do differently, said NCC president Peter Coleman. Unifor, Canada's largest privatesector union, also will be active as it urges Canadians to turf the Conservative government. "The current government has done a number of things that have, quite frankly, weakened our democracy," Peter Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of Unifor, said.
  • THIRD PARTIES Third parties registered with Elections Canada (as of Aug. 19): Animal Justice Canada Legislative Fund AVAAZ BC Government and Service Employees' Union Canadian Health Coalition Canadian Media Guild Canadian Medical Association Canadian Union of Postal Workers Canadian Union of Public Employees Canadian Veterans ABC Campaign 2015 Diane Babcock Dogwood Initiative
  • Downtown Mission of Windsor Inc. Fair Vote Canada Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec Friends of Canadian Broadcasting IATSE International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada Leadnow Society Les Sans-Chemise National Citizens Coalition Inc. NORML Canada Inc. Ontario Public Service Employees Union Open Media Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario UNIFOR Voters Against Harper
Govind Rao

Hospital food sucks? A fresh food campaign wants to hear from you - Latest Hamilton new... - 0 views

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  • Hospital union representative launches campaign to pressure hospitals to ditch frozen food
  • Jun 08, 2014
  • The Keep Hospitals Cooking campaign team is trying to pressure the hospitals to stop serving frozen, reheated meals like this.
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  • A hospital union representative from Hamilton has launched a campaign to bring fresh food to patients, and says public input is welcome. The Keep Hospitals Cooking campaign, which kicked off in May, aims to pressure the hospitals to serve freshly prepared food instead of frozen, reheated meals. Kevin Cook, Area 2 vice-president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, spearheaded the campaign. He said hospitals have switched from preparing food in-house to contracting food service out to factories over the years due to budget cutbacks.
  • Kevin Cook, right, with his campaign partner Alex Jackson, is pressuring hospitals to switch from frozen, reheated meals to freshly prepared food for patients
Govind Rao

Health issues our No. 1 priority, poll shows; But researchers say leaders are giving is... - 0 views

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  • Toronto Star Fri Oct 9 2015
  • A new public opinion poll by Ekos shows that health is the most important issue to Canadians - but researchers involved in the survey say that isn't reflected in the attention party leaders in the federal election are devoting to it.
  • "Our poll results clearly show that any politician brave enough to campaign on health right now would be campaigning on clearly the most important issue to Canadians. Lamentably, none of the political parties have done this," Amir Attaran, a professor with the faculty of medicine and the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa, said in an interview. Funding for the Sept. 14-22 poll came from Attaran's academic research budget at Ottawa U, and he devised the survey questions with input from his academic colleagues at the university, the Canadian Public Health Association, Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and Ekos.
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  • Combating terrorist threats such as Islamic State and purchasing military hardware ranked among the two least popular choices respectively, in the poll. The 2,011 participants in the poll were given 20 choices, six of them relating to health. Included on the list of choices was child care, workplace training, and "across the board tax cuts." Respondents had to choose how to invest the $1 billion in initiatives aimed at "the public's best interest.''
  • The margin of error for the statistically weighted national survey is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points 19 times out of 20. Responding to claims the federal leaders are ignoring health issues in the election campaign, Conservative campaign spokesman Stephen Lecce said the topic remains an ongoing priority for the party. "A strong economy allows government to keep taxes low and increasingly invest in important social programs like health care. That is why since 2006, our Conservative government has significantly increased health transfers to the provinces by almost 70 per cent to improve quality of life of all Canadians," he said.
  • NDP campaign adviser Brad Lavigne said health care has been the No. 1 issue the party has dedicated itself to during the election campaign. He pointed out the party devoted a health-care week during the campaign to highlight areas that "desperately need improvement after 10 years of Stephen Harper, including access to more doctors, lower prescription drug costs, and mental health." Jane Philpott, a physician and Liberal candidate running in Markham-Stouffville, said her party has the "strongest" position on health. "The strongest part of the health care part of our platform is the fact we are committed to negotiating a new health accord,'' she said, adding the Liberals will hold a first ministers meeting in the first 100 days of forming government, and negotiating a new health accord will be a priority for working with provinces, she said.
  • The Ekos poll found that overall, 55 per cent of respondents believe public health care in Canada has worsened since 2006 when Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's government took over. Twenty-five per cent said the quality has stayed the same, 17 per cent said improved and 3 per cent don't know.
Govind Rao

Join the campaign to protect public health care in Canada | rabble.ca - 0 views

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  • May 14, 2014
  • By Adrienne Silnicki
  • We're part way through our campaign to protect, strengthen and expand public health care in Canada and we're thrilled with how the campaign is progressing. It's not surprising to us that many Canadians are unaware of the federal cuts to health care. The coming $36 billion of cuts haven't gotten a lot of media attention partially because many of the premiers are silent on the cuts and afraid to speak out because the federal government may claw back their funding in other areas (like the Canada Social Transfer). 
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  • The Council of Canadians, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), provincial health coalitions, and national and provincial allies have been working together on a campaign that educates health-care advocates on the federal government's move away from public health care. It then trains those advocates on how to canvass and co-ordinates canvassing across the ridings.
Govind Rao

The issue that could topple the Tories; Ottawa's unhealthy decade - Infomart - 0 views

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  • Toronto Star Mon Oct 12 2015
  • There is no election issue more deplorably ignored than health. At 11 per cent, health is a far larger slice of Canada's economy than oil (just 3 per cent). Provincial governments spend a staggering 40 per cent of their budgets on health; their health ministries are bigger than the next 10 ministries combined. Voters ignore health at their own peril, because as Canada's population ages, how politicians address health only matters more. So why is it that, at election time, voters indulge candidates who do not talk about health, but instead fret over the niqab? It makes no sense: while every Canadian family has a life-or-death drama to tell about a visit to the doctor or hospital, who can honestly say their lives were changed by someone's head covering?
  • On Saturday the Star reported our poll of Canadians' attitudes to health in this election. Unlike other polls, this one began with questions prepared by health experts at the University of Ottawa, without any sponsorship from political parties, health professions, corporations or unions. We executed this poll independently, because we think it is crazy that voters and politicians are disregarding this vital issue. And Canadians agree with us. When we asked Canadians to play prime minister for a day by choosing how to spend a billion dollars, they put health at the top of their lists. Of Canadians' top five spending priorities, fully three are health-related: improving public health, investing in disease and injury prevention and improving health care in the final years of life. These are things that Canadians overwhelmingly believe make their lives better.
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  • But ask about the issues that dominate this election, such as the military or fighting terrorists such as ISIS, and Canadians put those in 19th and 20th place - the very bottom! The disconnect between what Canadians prioritize and what politicians emphasize is huge. Simply put, it's syringes, not Syria, that matters most to Canadians. That Canadians put health on top, trumping even defence and terrorism concerns, is no aberration. The pattern consistently holds true in EKOS polls dating back two decades. Any politician clever enough to change gears and campaign on health stands to reap a giant windfall.
  • Of course, campaigning on health is easier for some parties than others. Ask Canadians who they trust most on health, and they answer the NDP, Liberals and Conservatives in that order - but with each doing a scandalously poor job of articulating their vision for health, the question is somewhat like asking which of Snow White's seven dwarves is the tallest. Only diehard Conservative voters, loyal as always, say that Stephen Harper has improved health care since taking office more than nine years ago. But probe under these knee-jerk, partisan answers by asking about specific actions of the Harper government on health, and a radically different truth emerges.
  • Canadians of all political stripes - including a majority of Conservatives - disagree with the Harper government's health decisions. Ask Canadians how they feel about the prime minister's refusal to meet with the provincial ministers of health for the last nine years, and they oppose that by a whopping seven-to-one margin. Ask them about cutting funding for the Public Health Agency of Canada, and again the opponents outnumber backers by seven-to-one. Or ask about the Harper government's decision to cut federally funded health research, which is less emotive, and still Canadians deplore this by six-to-one.
  • These are staggering margins, the sort that pollsters almost never see. That they exist proves the Conservatives have more to lose than gain in a campaign waged on health. Because Conservative voters tend to be older (read: are sicker), a campaign attack that frames the Harper government's actions as the "Death of Medicare" could seismically undermine their base - especially if those long-spurned provincial health ministers piled on.
  • And Canadians do believe in Medicare, almost as faith. More than three-quarters of those we polled opposed privatization, or letting those with money buy better or faster care. Huge majorities support expanding Medicare to home and community care (81 per cent), psychiatric care (79 per cent) and prescription drugs (77 per cent). The political parties have not wholly ignored these issues, but neither have they dwelled on them.
  • There are strong electoral lessons here. Certainly any opposition party that wages a negative campaign against the Conservatives' health record has unparalleled room to grow; it is surprising this has not happened already. But the most intriguing result of our poll? By a hair's breadth, most Canadians (50.1 per cent) prefer a coalition to any one party, with a "traffic light coalition" of Reds, Oranges and Greens being the most popular. Astonishingly, those voters feel more comfortable with a coalition running health care than just their preferred party. Could it be ironically true that health is both the most neglected campaign opportunity for each opposition party, and the glue that could bind them in a coalition if none wins? Amir Attaran is a professor in the University of Ottawa's Faculties of Law and Medicine. Frank Graves is a pollster and founder and president of EKOS Research Associates.
Govind Rao

Targeted ads to be shown at health-care facilities - Infomart - 0 views

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  • The Globe and Mail Wed Feb 18 2015
  • People turning to their phones to kill time in waiting rooms at health-care facilities may soon see an unexpected image: a person in blue scrubs, with dark purple bruises on her arm. It is one of the ads in a targeted mobile campaign launching Wednesday, designed to raise awareness about the pervasive problem of abuse against health care workers. It is using new advertising technology - targeting people with mobile ads based on the GPS location of their phones - to get the message out.
  • The campaign, launched by Ontario's Public Services Health & Safety Association (PSH&SA), will show ads to people in more than 100,000 health-care facilities in the province, including hospitals and rehabilitation centres. Ads will appear in mobile apps people use to play games, read the news, or map their routes home, for example, as long as those people have agreed to allow those apps to gather information about their whereabouts. "The issue of violence against health-care workers is growing," said Henrietta Van hulle, executive director of the PSH&SA, a non-profit funded by the Ministry of Labour.
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  • The campaign is the beginning of a multiyear process to push for better tools to protect these workers. That will include more awareness among families of patients, who need to inform doctors and nurses if the patient has certain triggers or warning signs of a violent outburst. It could also involve tools such as personal alarms workers can wear to call for help when a situation arises. More generally, it also means informing workers of their rights, and encouraging workplaces to do better risk assessments and even flag patients who may become violent. For people working in home care, who do not have security nearby, risk assessment is even more important.
  • Last year, 639 health-care workers in Ontario were injured in a violent incident, badly enough that they were unable to work their next shift. That statistic does not account for incidents where workers are pushed, hit, or scratched, for example, and do not report them or take time away from work. "They're seeing [these incidents] as part of the job," Ms. Van hulle said. According to a decade-old Statistics Canada study, 33.8 per cent of nurses surveyed in hospitals and long-term care facilities reported being physically assaulted by a patient in the past 12 months. Nearly half reported emotional abuse on the job. More recent national statistics are hard to come by, but industry associations and unions say the problem is growing.
  • This is due to a couple of factors. First, there has been a move to deinstitutionalize people with mental health issues. While it is seen as positive to put fewer people with mental-health issues into institutions, protections for workers dealing with these patients have not kept pace with the changes. Another major issue is Canada's aging population, and rising cases of dementia. Although not everyone with dementia is violent, people who are cognitively impaired can easily become frightened and lash out, Ms. Van hulle explained. The campaign uses technology that identifies health-care facilities in Ontario - and through "geofencing," can serve ads to mobile devices inside those facilities.
  • "When someone is in a hospital and they see a message targeting people in a hospital, the context makes it relevant," said David Katz, executive vice-president of EQ Works, the digital media buying company for the campaign. This kind of technology is attractive to advertisers because the more relevant an ad is, the less likely a person is to ignore it - known as "banner blindness" for digital ads.
  • The trouble is that locationbased ads can seem creepy. Because this is dealing with a serious issue - and not selling something - it is less likely to trigger that reaction, said Robert Wise, partner at Scratch Marketing, PSH&SA's ad agency. The campaign will not involve storing information about people it targets. "We're targeting generically, people who are visiting facilities," Mr. Wise said.
Govind Rao

Thousands from Windsor-Essex back campaign against privatized healthcare (With video) |... - 0 views

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  • Thousands from Windsor-Essex back campaign against privatized healthcare (With video)
  • Apr 05, 2014
  • Thousands of locals have shown their support for a provincewide initiative aimed at protecting public health care and preventing privatization of services. “What’s happening is the Ontario government – by way of regulatory change – is set to enter into contracts with private clinics to perform services that have been primarily performed in hospitals until this day,” said Ken Brown, manager of the Save Our Services campaign organized by the Ontario Health Coalition. Brown said the Windsor-Essex Chapter has been rallying the region collecting signatures and votes against privatization for the past four weeks. In that time, about 7,000 people have backed the campaign.
Govind Rao

The future of our care requires a healthy debate; A closer look at important issues tha... - 0 views

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  • Toronto Star Thu Sep 3 2015
  • The federal party leaders may be paying little attention to the many troubles that vex Canada's health-care system, but Dr. Samir Sinha doesn't have that choice. The director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network hospitals faces a constant struggle to meet elderly patients' needs. It is a demographic the system wasn't designed to serve. When it comes to home and community care services, the system is seriously faltering, warns Sinha, who is concerned that if the problems are not addressed soon they will get much worse as the seniors population grows.
  • The health-care system isn't ready to meet the current needs and the future needs of our aging population. There is almost a situation where everyone is putting their heads in the sand," said Sinha, who also serves as the provincial lead for the Ontario Seniors Strategy. With just over six weeks left in the federal election campaign, Sinha hopes the leaders will turn their attention to seniors' pressing health needs. It would make good political sense, given that more than 80 per cent of seniors vote, he noted.
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  • There are many other health issues begging for more attention. Advocates of pharmacare and physician-assisted suicide are pushing hard to get their concerns front and centre. But there has been little discussion so far about health care during the campaign, despite the fact that time and time again it ranks as the top issue of concern among voters. The exception is Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. On Wednesday, she announced her party's strategy for seniors, including a universal drug program and a guaranteed livable income.
  • Meantime, health-care professionals like Sinha are left to deal with the fallout from the widening cracks in the system. "The issue my patients struggle with the most is getting access to home and community care services. I spend way too much of my time trying to navigate the complicated system on behalf of my patients to make sure we can cobble together what they may need," he said. Physicians are equally worried. More than 500 members of the Canadian Medical Association gathered last week for their annual meeting in Halifax where they reiterated their call for the creation of a national seniors' strategy.
  • Outgoing president Dr. Chris Simpson told the gathering that there is widespread public support for a seniors strategy to meet the growing health needs of an aging population, but that politicians have been disappointingly silent on the issue. In his closing speech, Simpson warned that doctors are not going to let politicians off the hook. "We will be tracking commitments made by the parties, and we'll publish the results at the end of the campaign so that Canadians who are worried about seniors can make an informed decision when they're at the ballot box." Alan Freeman, Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, isn't surprised that the issue of health care has not received much attention.
  • Any substantive discussion would involve mention of transfer payments and equalization formulas - complicated topics that make people's eyes glaze over. That absence of debate serves Conservative Leader Stephen Harper just fine, Freeman contended. "This works out quite well from the federal government's point of view, especially Harper's point of view, in that he's not interested in an activist role for the federal government in health care," Freeman said.
  • A similar sentiment was expressed in a recent editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Deputy editor Dr. Matthew Stanbrook wrote that the federal government seems to be trying to get out of the health-care business. "Recent years have seen Canada's health-care system race to the bottom of quality rankings compared with other nations that have prudently invested in maintaining a strong social safety net," he wrote, warning that the most complex problems in the health-care system cannot be solved without federal leadership.
  • Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins agrees that Ottawa's hands-off approach is hurting the health system. He's specifically concerned about the Conservative government's plan to reduce the rate of increases in health transfers to the provinces. "As Canadians, we owe it to ourselves and to our children to begin a frank and earnest conversation about the state of our health-care system and what a modern health-care system should look like in 2015 and beyond," Hoskins said in an email to the Star. "It's up to all of us - both political leaders and the citizens we represent - to speak up and ensure it has a place in that electoral debate." Conservative party spokesperson Stephen Lecce noted that just Stephen Harper promised to maintain funding for the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, an agency devoted to combating the disease.
  • "Since 2006, under prime minister Harper's leadership, health transfers have increased by 70 per cent while balancing the budget and keeping taxes low. Federal funding is a record levels, and will reach $40 billion annually by end of decade, providing certainty and stability, and an enhanced quality of life for Canadians," he said. Barry Kay, a political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, expects that in a long campaign, the parties are biding their time before getting into substantive debates.
  • "I think the leaders are holding their fire till later on when the campaign moves beyond the 'spring training' phase and more people are watching," he said.
Govind Rao

Starting campaign for new Health Accord | The Petrolia Topic - 0 views

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  • March 26, 2014
  • The Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) will launch a national day of action on Monday, March 31 to kick off a campaign for a new Health Accord. Events are being organized in more than 40 communities across Canada, including a 12 noon rally outside Sarnia-Lambton MP Patricia Davidson's Sarnia constituency office, at 1000 Finch Dr. “We are sounding the alarm to alert Canadians to the fact the Harper government is not providing federal leadership in health care. This will lead to a fragmentation of services across the country, and access to care will depend on where you live and your ability to pay,” says CHC executive director Michael McBane. The CHC will follow up the day of action with a Medicare Tour, visiting eight cities across the country and meeting with citizens at community events, public forums, and workshops. Meanwhile, Sarnia-Lambton Health Coalition (SLHC) president Arlene Patterson will be at the Petrolia Post Office on Friday, March 28 with Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) campaign ballots, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Patterson says she has delivered more than 1,300 ballots in Sarnia, Corunna, Petrolia, and Brigden and is distributing more.
Govind Rao

National Executive Board Highlights - December 2014 | Canadian Union of Public Employees - 0 views

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  • Fairness Works The Board received an update on the third phase of the CLC advertising campaign promoting the work of the labour movement in Canada.  The fall campaign runs from November 24 to December 22 and features a 30-second television ad, transit advertising in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver as well as an extensive digital media campaign. All advertising in this phase of the campaign is aimed at driving people to the Fairness Works website - fairnessworks.ca – to give detail on the work of unions on important issues such as health care, child care, retirement security, human rights, and jobs and the economy.  
Govind Rao

CUPE NL to launch 'You've got to be kidding me!' province-wide ad campaign | Canadian U... - 0 views

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  • Apr 1, 2016
  • ST. JOHN’S – CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador is launching a province-wide ad campaign designed to educate members of the public about potentially devastating cuts to public services and jobs.
  • going to cut all departments, boards and agencies by 30% and lay off thousands of workers.”
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  • 35,000 direct job losses for the public sector and somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 indirect job losses in the private sector, throwing the economy into a deep recession,” says Lucas.
  • On top of that,” says Lucas, “after saying they were opposed to P3s – so-called public-private-partnerships – during the election campaign, the Liberal government now says it wants to ‘explore’ privatized health care and other vital public services.
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Who Cares in New Brunswick? | Canadian Union of Public Employees - 0 views

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  • Oct 20, 2016
  • This fall, CUPE New Brunswick will launch its Who Cares? campaign to raise public awareness of the precarious nature of the work performed by community care workers across the province. The campaign aims to shed light on the low pay, the lack of job security and the difficult working conditions of the community care workers, most of whom are women, working in
  • nursing homes, group homes, special care homes, transition homes, shelters, etc.
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  • The Who Cares? campaign wants to see the creation of a Community Care Services Authority modeled after the province’s health authorities. Bringing community care service providers under direct public administration will help eliminate administrative duplication and help focus increasingly limited public funds on front-line service delivery and better working conditions for workers.
Irene Jansen

CUPE Quebec launches a TV campaign: Do you know your care-facilitators? < Social servic... - 1 views

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cupe Quebec ad

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  • Our members on the provinicial social services council (Conseil provincial des affaires sociales - CPAS) launched&nbsp; a TV advertising campaign&nbsp;on Monday, February 18. The campaign will run across Quebec for four weeks.
  • See the TV ad on YouTube (French only)
Heather Farrow

Canadian unions launch new CPP campaign "A Better Plan for All" | Canadian Labour Congress - 0 views

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pensions union campaign

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  • Friday, May 20, 2016 Today unions of the Canadian Labour Congress launched a new website and ad campaign to raise awareness about the need for a universal expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).&nbsp;“With 600,000 Canadian seniors living in poverty, and 11 million workers lacking a workplace pension plan, retirement is something all Canadians need to start thinking about today. Even for employees with workplace pension plans, affording a modest retirement can be a struggle,” said CLC President Hassan Yussuff.
Heather Farrow

CUPE Health Care Council launches radio campaign on seniors' care | CUPE Saskatchewan - 0 views

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cupe Saskatchewan ltc campaign

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  • Posted on February 25, 2016
  • The issue of seniors’ care continues to be at the top of mind for many Saskatchewan citizens.&nbsp; In response to this concern, the CUPE Health Care Council has launched a radio ad calling for a minimum standard of care. “Our members are doing the best they can with limited time,” said Gordon Campbell, CUPE Health Care Council president.&nbsp; “But with the current staffing levels, our members barely have time to take care of residents’ basic needs and have no time to support their emotional and social needs.”
Irene Jansen

After all the months of debate, does the health bill actually stack up in law? | Left F... - 1 views

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nhs campaign social care bill trade competition

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  • a test case campaign to challenge the establishment of a social enterprise – namely Gloucestershire Care Services Community Interest Company – has been fought and won by 76 year old Michael Lloyd, working with ‘a cross party coalition of anti-cuts campaigners’.
  • They argued the local PCT had acted unlawfully in planning to hand over management of nine county hospitals and 3,000 community health staff in what would have been the biggest planned transfer (so far) to a social enterprise in the country.
  • “The South West is leading the charge to social enterprise – with 15,000 of 25,000 staff in the UK, likely to be affected by reduced terms and conditions, coming from the region.”
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  • NHS Gloucestershire had not put this work out to tender, nor explored in-house/NHS options which, campaigners say, would have made tendering unnecessary in the first place
  • only reduced staff terms and conditions upon the service leaving the NHS, would offer a key cost saving
  • any cost gain would be significantly reduced by the new social enterprise VAT bill
  • which would not have applied under the internal NHS model
  • the Lansley edict of July 2011, that £1 billion of NHS services would be opened up to competition.
  • Lansley’s ‘do it quick never mind the risk’ stick, the underbelly of which we highlighted last week
  • the Hull example, where aside from the one-off transfer costs, when NHS Hull morphed into a social enterprise, they found the need to build an entire new wing to house the extra administrative staff – those who had been ‘cut loose’ from the NHS – because the new enterprises are required to have their own duplicate back office functions where previously they could draw on NHS central resources.
  • as long as matters are kept within the NHS there is no contract on which EU procurement law ‘actually bites’,
  • this result at the High Court also begs the question: now the Bill is passed, exactly how far are our current NHS providers obliged to put existing services out to competitive tender?
  • The Gloucestershire example seems to demonstrate there are more angles to take than even the government themselves had considered in their own search for profiteering loopholes.
  • Will it really be possible, as Professor Allyson Pollock advises, to “stop all commercial contracts”, citing the danger of the government continuing to claim commercial confidentiality trumps the public’s right to know about contract decisions.
  • The PCT is legally obliged to: 1). Involve public; 2). Consider NHS options; 3). Invite ‘expressions of interest’ (in bidding) – crucially, not the same as ‘inviting bids’; before 4). Deciding what to do, which may or may not involve ‘inviting bids’, depending on whether NHS bodies come forward, which would mean they didn’t need to go to stage of open tender, i.e. inviting bids.
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Sun News : Coalition campaigning on contracting out hospital services - 1 views

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  • Coalition campaigning on contracting out hospital services 4:21 pm, March 10th, 2014
  • TORONTO ─ The Ontario Health Coalition will launch a door-to-door campaign next month in a bid to keep MRIs, cataract surgery and other medical services in hospitals.OHC volunteers will fan out across the province on April 5 to fight cuts to clinical services in hospitals.They'll conduct a referendum, asking people to vote on whether they support the contracting out of services to private clinics."Ontario's local public hospitals have already been cut more deeply than anywhere in Canada, and it is beyond time that the cuts stop. But with this plan, the Ontario government is making cuts far worse," OHC executive director Natalie Mehra said.
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$30K ad campaign about nursing home changes irks seniors - New Brunswick - CBC News - 0 views

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  • Advocate for seniors Cecile Cassista says government should explain changes to policy in person
  • May 21, 2015
  • A seniors advocate says the provincial government&nbsp;should explain changes to its nursing home policy in person, instead of using an&nbsp;ad campaign.
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  • Seniors advocate Cecile Cassista says the government should speak to senior directly about changes to nursing home policy instead of spending $30,000 on an advertising campaign
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Reversing health cuts will take time: NDP; Mulcair pledge - Infomart - 0 views

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  • National Post Fri Aug 28 2015
  • NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is backing away from his pledge to restore up to $36 billion in provincial healthcare transfers as he vows to pay for other pricey campaign commitments within a balanced budget. Mulcair insisted Thursday an NDP government would make it a "top priority" to honour his health-funding commitment but acknowledged it's not likely to happen right away.
  • The NDP leader first made the promise last summer in what his party called a "historic" speech to the Canadian Medical Association. He castigated Stephen Harper's government for its plan to reduce the rate of increase in health transfers to the provinces starting in 2017, a move he said would rob the provinces of up to $36 billion over 10 years. "An NDP government would use any budget surplus to cancel the proposed cuts to health care," he said at the time.
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  • However, since then Mulcair has said little about that promise while he's added a number of others - including a $5-billion national childcare program - that would apparently take priority. Pressed on the health transfer issue Thursday during a campaign stop in Toronto, Mulcair said it now appears the budget surpluses on which he based his promise won't materialize.
  • Still, he said there are two years before the scheduled reduction in transfers start so there's still time. "We had said that any surplus, because Mr. Harper had been promising surpluses, would be dedicated in our case first and foremost to avoiding that (transfer reduction)," Mulcair said at the campaign office of his star candidate Andrew Thomson, a former Saskatchewan finance minister. "Now it looks pretty obvious that there won't be any, but during that two-year period our health minister will have as a top priority to get new health accords."
  • He added the NDP's health care priorities will include home care and pharmacare. Conservative spokesman Stephen Lecce said their government "significantly increased" health spending. "Under Prime Minister Harper, our government is delivering the highest health transfers in Canadian history - reaching $40 billion annually by the end of the decade," he said. Based on Bank of Canada projections, the parliamentary budget office has said the federal government is likely headed for a $1-billion shortfall in 2015-16, despite a projected surplus in the 2015 budget.
  • Nevertheless, Mulcair has been adamant this week that his first budget next year would be balanced and he's said he believes subsequent budgets would be balanced too. He has not addressed how or if he would find a surplus to funnel into health transfers while honouring all his other campaign commitments.
  • Mulcair said Thursday he'll pay for NDP promises by eliminating Harper's $2-billion income-splitting plan, wasteful government advertising, the Senate, subsidies to oil companies and court battles with First Nations.
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Why the Liberals Should Be Campaigning on a Cure for Healthcare | Jonathan Scott - 0 views

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  • Posted: 09/01/2015
  • During the past number of months campaigning for local candidates, Canadian politics has perplexed me for a variety of reasons, but one reason stands out the most.Why is the Liberal Party not aggressively campaigning on a cure for healthcare?&nbsp;The Liberal platform is a grab bag of fine, progressive ideas. I like it. The deficit financing pledge, designed to stimulate a sluggish (if not recessionary) economy, is smart fiscal policy.&nbsp;
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