Issues, Campaigns and Government Relations
HSA has joined a number of other B.C. public-sector unions in their call on the Liberal government to withdraw legislation that severely restricts public-interest advertising and communication in the five months leading up to the May 2009 provincial election. Bill 42, the Election Amendment Act, would eliminate the kind of information campaigns about service cuts launched by the labour movement...
Ottawa (8 May 2008) ... Representatives of the Canadian Health Professionals Secretariat (CHPS) gathered in Ottawa recently to assess public policy and labour relations developments over the last six months and to map the course ahead for Canadas health professionals. Among the issues covered during the May 1-2 meeting was an overriding concern about the significant and growing shortage of...
New Health Legislation threatens Medicare as we know it, unless we act now and send a message to Health Minister George Abbott telling him to Kill Bill 21! British Columbians have spoken: they know universal public health care is the most efficient, fair and affordable way to provide health care to all regardless of income. They want proven, public solutions...
Speak out against the threat to public health care in BC Join us!Friday, April 18 March: noonAssemble beside the Hilton Metrotown6083 McKay Avenue, Burnaby(McKay & Kingsway) Rally: 12:15-1:15pmNortheast corner of Central ParkCorner of Kingsway & Patterson, Burnaby1 block from Patterson Skytrain stationParking available off Patterson Speakers:Reid Johnson, Health Sciences AssociationMarie-Claude Premont, Law Professor, speaking onhealth care privatization in QuebecDr. Randall...
Ottawa (10 April 2008) ... In the lead-up to National Medical Laboratory Week, Canadas largest organization of health science professionals is sounding alarm bells that accessible and high quality patient care is threatened by an escalating shortage of medical laboratory technologists across the country. -Most governments are in denial about the escalating shortage of medical laboratory technologists," says Elisabeth Ballermann...
Just hours after Health Minister George Abbott tabled controversial amendments to the Medicare Protection Act on April 8, more than 200 people attended a public talk by physicians and international policy experts about the dangers of continued health care privatization in B.C. Dr. Michael Klein ... physician, researcher and founding member of the Canadian Doctors for Medicare ... reasserted that...
'We can't stand still. We can either go back or we can go forward. The choice we make today will decide the future of medicare in Canada.' - Tommy DouglasOttawa (3 Apr. 2008) - The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) has issued two new public education tools as part of its ongoing campaign to defend and expand...
NUPGE releases new leaflet on renewing community-based social servicesOttawa (20 March 2008) - The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) has released a new leaflet calling for a re-investment in our communities. It is called, No way to show we care: Renewed funding for community-based social services.Year after year, as governments relentlessly cut social service budgets, a crisis...
Rights, Not Wrongs, a conference focussing on emerging human rights issues, featuring leading BC human rights specialists in Aboriginal, peace, antipoverty, women's rights, antiracism, international issues and more, is being organized by the BC Teachers' Federation Committee for Action on Social Justice and the BC Federation of Labour. The conference will be held April 3 to 5 at the Fairmont...
The BC Health Coalition presents "Choices that Matter - True Stories from Behind the Curtain of Private Health Care" featuring: Dr. Allyson Pollock, University of Edinburgh with true stories of damage done by P3s in the UK. Dr. Wayne Hildahl, CEO of the Pan-Am Clinic in Winnipeg with his story of taking a private clinic public. Dr. Michael Klein, Founding...