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,...
March 10, 2022 1:36 PM
Keeping community health in community hands
March 9, 2022 10:07 AM
Provinces using investor-owned for-profit clinics to cut wait times heading towards predictable failure
The symptoms of Canada’s strained health care system are well known by now. We see headlines about the shortages of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. Burnout rates, already a...
March 8, 2022 3:33 PM
Health Coalition seeks progress on Safe Long-Term Care Act in 2022 Budget
Initially posted by the Canadian Health Coalition. View original, posted on February 16, 2022.
The Canadian Health Coalition has delivered the following letter to Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, calling for...
February 1, 2022 4:14 PM
One step closer to a "Safe Long-Term Care Act"
It has been well over a year since Prime Minister Trudeau first committed to set national long-term care standards. With the recent release of a new draft national standard...
January 31, 2022 4:11 PM
How did "Big Pharma" delay cheaper drug prices, again?
Reposted with permission from the Canadian Health Coalition. View original, initially posted on January 24, 2022.
It was the day before Christmas Eve when the government issued Continue reading
January 31, 2022 3:59 PM
Global solidarity for universal public health care
BC Health Coalition participates in international panel on universal health care
The NC Medicare for All Coalition and the...
January 11, 2022 11:28 AM
BC's Crisis Lines will stay in not-for-profit hands!
BC Health Coalition members know too well that Request For Proposal (RFP) processes run a high risk of contracting out public and non-profit services to private, for-profit, companies. So in...
December 9, 2021 4:06 PM
Health Coalition members demand progress on pharmacare in Fiscal Update and Budget 2022
Canadian Health Coalition members, along twenty allied organizations and public health care experts, have written to Prime Minister Trudeau and his key ministers, including Health Minister Jean-Yves...
November 29, 2021 3:40 PM
A vision for public mental health care
The time is now for public mental health care. Our current public health care system covers few...
November 24, 2021 4:48 PM
AGM Keynote: ADM Dawn Thomas shares updates on the "In Plain Sight" report
Almost one year after the release of In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care, Assistant Deputy Minister of Indigenous Dawn Thomas delivered a keynote at...