Updates
August 21, 2024 10:08 AM
7 system-wide benefits of expanding home care and home support
Home support is more than a nice-to-have service that helps people age at home. It’s a proven,...
July 1, 2025 7:00 AM
July 1st 1962: Community Health Centres and the Fight for Public Health Care
On this day sixty-three years ago, the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Act came into force. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, which had advocated for a model of health care...
June 7, 2025 1:56 PM
How We Won Medicare: Resource List
This list features materials that document the grassroots struggle behind the creation of Medicare in Canada. It brings together records of community organizing, political advocacy, and collective action that helped...
April 29, 2025 3:06 PM
The Impact of the 2025 Canadian Federal Election on Public Health Care
The results of Canada’s 2025 federal election are expected to have profound consequences for the country’s public health care system. Three main developments stand out: Mark Carney’s lack...
April 24, 2025 4:48 PM
BC Health Coalition members join LifeLabs Solidarity Actions across B.C.
In a strong show of support for LifeLabs workers, Coalition member - patients joined with the BCGEU to highlight ongoing job action and petition the Premier to cancel contracts with...
April 16, 2025 7:30 AM
Stop U.S. Healthcare Corporation’s QUEST for Profit: Open Letter Calls on BC Government to Fully Bring LifeLabs into the Public System
This morning, the BC Health Coalition released a critical open letter to the BC government calling for an end to the province’s contract with U.S.-owned Quest Diagnostics, the corporation now...
March 13, 2025 3:53 PM
BC Health Coalition staff speaking alongside Minister of Health at the signing of the Pharmacare agreement at the B.C. Legislature.
February 26, 2025 11:24 AM
SOS MEDICARE 3.0 CONFERENCE REPORT BACK
The BC Health Coalition’s Director of Policy and Campaigns joined representatives from provincial and territorial Health Coalitions in Ottawa for the SOS Medicare 3.0 Conference.
January 30, 2025 2:17 PM
For-profit surgical clinic is finally being forced to pay for its case against public health care
If Cambie Surgeries had been successful in its case against public health care it would have allowed US private insurance companies to compete with and transform Canada’s public...
October 17, 2024 2:06 PM
Andrew Longhurst: For-profit surgeries won’t reduce wait times or cut costs
Health care is top of mind this election, and rightly so.
October 17, 2024 2:03 PM
Colleen Fuller: Will National Pharmacare survive the upcoming elections?
After a nationwide, multi-generational struggle that began before the Second World War, Canadians are finally taking the first steps towards a National Pharmacare...