Issues, Campaigns and Government Relations
BC Health Coalition launches Friends of Medicare campaign, calls for positive, public solutions to health care challenges This week, the BC Health Coalition, along with Canadian Doctors for Medicare, Oxfam and the Council of Canadians, will officially launch its Friends of Medicare campaign. Focused on strengthening universal medicare in B.C., the coalition will expand its work with citizens across the...
It's a fact - improving public health care is within our means. Find out how. The Nelson and Area Society for Health, the Council of Canadians and the BC Health Coalition invite you to a Public Solutions Forum. Tuesday, May 227:00 p.m.717 Vernon Street, Nelson Printer-friendly poster.
(Vancouver) Surgical waitlists can be dramatically cut if the BC government takes leadership by scaling up innovative projects already underway in the public system, a new study says. Why Wait? Public Solutions to Cure Surgical Waitlists, released today by the CCPA and the BC Health Coalition, is a submission to the BC government's 'conversation on health.' The study looks at...
Would UK-style changes to our health care system benefit patients? Or corporations? PUBLIC HEALTH FOURUM - FRIENDS OF MEDICARE - JOIN US! Thursday, May 177pm - 9pmCroatian Cultural Centre3250 Commercial Drive, Auditorium 2 Featuring: Jacky Davis, London doctor and founding member of Keep NHS Public Will McMartin, Political commentator & contributor to The Tyee Printer-friendly poster.
Would UK-style changes to our health care system benefit patients? Or corporations? Public health care forum: Tuesday, May 157pm - 9pmTHOMPSON RIVER UNIVERSITY ALUMNI THEATREClock Tower Building, Kamloops For more information and a printer-friendly version of the poster, click here.
Members of the BC Federation of Labour's Occupational Health and Safety Committee headed to Victoria Monday, April 30 to press the case for better workplace safety enforcement and decent pensions for workers injured on the job. The lobby, headed by Federation President Jim Sinclair and Secretary-Treasurer Angela Schira, comes on the heels of Day of Mourning ceremonies across BC that...
HSA President Reid Johnson and Region 7 Regional Director Marg Beddis joined in the Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job by laying a wreath at Bear Creek Park in Surrey Saturday. New Westminster & District Labour Council in conjunction with the Vancouver & District Labour Council, Fraser Valley Labour Council and BC Federation of Labour...
It's a fact - improving public health care is within our means. Find out how. Castlegar and District Health Watch and the BC Health Coalition invite you to a West Kootenay Public Solutions Forum. Thursday, May 247:00 p.m.Castlegar & District Community Recreation Centre2101 6th Avenue Speaker: Dr. Robert Woolard, Canadian Doctors for Medicine Printer-friendly poster.
B.C.'s lowest paid workers need your help. The B.C. Federation of Labour is campaigning to boost the provincial minimum wage to $10 an hour and eliminate the $6 training rate for new workers. The Campbell government has frozen the minimum at $8 since 2001. Six years without a raise is too long. Thats why the BCFed is calling for an...
The public is still in the dark about why the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) is using a public-private partnership (P3) for the financing, construction and operation of the Surrey Ambulatory Care Facility despite initially opposing this approach. Key information related to the decision was deleted from 35 pages of heavily censored documents released to the BC Health Coalition under freedom...