Ontario’s Tory government has just announced it will create a two-tier healthcare system in the province: one, a private-for profit system which is expected to thrive off the funding and staffing diverted from the public system; and the other, the chronically under-funded and under-staffed universal public system of Medicare which will be further impoverished and in…
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemns recent attacks on public healthcare and calls its members and friends to join public healthcare coalitions to defend and expand healthcare so it is fully public and universal. Canada’s collapsing public healthcare repeatedly made cross-Canada news media during the summer of 2022 as emergency rooms…
Governments have prioritized profits over people and consistently opened up sections of the economy before it was safe and, in process, have cost lives and facilitated the spread of the pandemic.
If variants proliferate unchecked, there will be many more deaths over a period of years, not months.
The scurrilous and racist attack by Conservative MP Derek Sloan on Dr. Theresa Tam is hate speech that should be followed up with charges under Canada’s hate speech laws.
Non au renflouement des compagnies!
With so little to carry millions of Canadians for so short a time, this is a bailout that will strip working people of their jobs, their homes and their savings in a very short time.
La pandémie du COVID-19 menace la santé et le bien-être de tous les peoples du monde, les plus vulnérables étant les travailleurs-euses, les peuples autochtones, les chômeurs-euses, les pauvres et les aîné-e-s. Ça prend une action immédiate de la part du gouvernement canadien et la coopération de la communauté internationale pour sauver des dizaines de…
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health and well-being of all the world’s peoples, the most vulnerable being working people, Indigenous Peoples, the unemployed, the poor and the elderly. It will take urgent action by the Canadian government, and cooperation by the international community to save tens of thousands of lives, and to prevent a deep…
We write to add our voice to the 91% of Canadians who urge the government of Canada to introduce a universal, accessible, comprehensive and portable single-payer public prescription drug system by expanding the Canada Health Act to include prescription drugs dispensed outside hospital.