The SK government’s Patient First plan promises even more public money to for-profit health care companies, here’s how much we spent on them last year…..
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The SK government’s Patient First plan promises even more public money to for-profit health care companies, here’s how much we spent on them last year…..
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Alberta is Not an Island: Bill 11 & the Attack on Canadian Medicare
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SK gov is doubling down on funnelling public dollars to for-profit surgical facilities
In the last fiscal year, gov paid out more than $14m to a private-equity owned chain
Using public $$ to build a for-profit industry paves the way for two-tier health care, like we're seeing in Alberta
Saskatchewan’s Patient First health plan still leaves the door open to for-profit services. By
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Expansion of for-profit surgeries will unfortunately overshadow some of the better aspects of this plan re: new training, recruitment and retention. patientsfirst.saskatchewan.ca
“As the owners of the resource, Albertans should get the lion’s share of those profits...And the way to do that is to introduce a windfall profits tax on top of the royalties that oil companies pay in exchange for the right to exploit publicly owned assets.” rabble.ca rabble.ca/labour/alber...
"the barrister acting for the Zong’s owners illustrated that point bluntly thus:
‘What is this claim that human people have been thrown overboard? This is a case of chattels or goods. Blacks are goods and property; it is madness to accuse these well-serving honourable men of murder.’"
Our public system is already chronically understaffed, allowing physicians to engage in dual practice will just continue to cannibalize the public system. Great if you have the wealth to pay out of pocket for private care - longer wait times and poorer quality of care for the rest of us.
Looking more and more like we may be getting a Saskatchewan version of Alberta’s Bill 11. Could be part of the upcoming budget.
Data centres are moving in. Communities should read the fine print By @simonenoch.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/technology/d...
“Expect Alberta to continuously test the federal government for weakness, using moves like this to inform their approach at the negotiating table,”
Fox says the parents caught in this sudden change from the province will now pay four times that amount at her day care, with some other daycares charging well above that.
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Bell Canada announced it plans to build an AI data centre campus south of Regina. A flurry of questions are now being asked: What kind of data centre? How will it be powered? Will it use a ton of water? @simonenoch.bsky.social weighs in. @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
“It isn’t a stretch to claim, as Malm and Carton do, that an actual energy transition—of the sort that Fressoz shows has never occurred—would challenge the basic power structures of global capitalism and geopolitics.”
“People don’t understand that news is not the same as just content. And these are just content farms of garbage,” Misri said." a Surrey ‘local news’ site run by AI: theijf.org/article/insi...
Data centres are coming to Ontario, and it’s sort of incumbent on people and governments and communities to understand: what does that mean? What are the costs? What are the benefits?” This is a key moment for those questions, Enoch explained. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/n...
“78,050 children under the age of 18 in Saskatchewan were in poverty, a child poverty rate of 27.1 per cent. This is well above Canada’s national child poverty rate of 18.3 per cent and is the highest child poverty rate of all the provinces.”
"I want details because we can't really size up the impact and effect of this data centre until we have more details," Enoch, a researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, told CBC's Blue Sky with Nichole Huck this week. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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“We go to workplaces because the workers call us,” said Biskar. “But in CLAC’s case, they go because the company calls.”
The #Saskatchewan government must make reducing child poverty in the province a priority. By @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #skpoli paherald.sk.ca/growing-and-...
Saskatchewan has the highest child poverty rate of all the provinces. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
ICYMI, this @policyalternatives.ca webinar is worth your time
Drs. Woolhandler & Himmelstein—international experts on for-profit health care & insurance—in conversation w/ me about the grave risk of US health care coming to Canada via Alberta, and how we fight back
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Local political corruption growing hand in hand with data centres as industry tries to head off local opposition. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
