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TheTyee.ca By Andrew MacLeod Finance Minister Colin Hansen today presented a budget that shrinks the civil service and makes cuts across several ministries while keeping spending for health and education steady. Hansen pitched it as a budget that would build on momentum from hosting the Olympics and would support children and families. Observers criticized it for abandoning earlier government priorities...

Business in Vancouver By Noa GlobermanMillions of patients travel to places like Belgium, Costa Rica and South Africa annually to undergo urgent or elective medical procedures. Whether it's to avoid the high costs, long waits or poor quality they usually associate with their local health systems, the prognosis remains medical tourism is fast becoming a multibillion-dollar industry. "What if we...

Vancouver Sun Re: Public sector unions should push for more private involvement, Nov. 17 Let's be clear about what privatized health care is about. It has nothing to do with universal access. It is a method of generating enormous profits from your illness or injury -- no more, no less. Dr. Brian Day, author of the Issues & Ideas piece...

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Penticton Herald By Don Plant The B.C. Liberals are more interested in building monuments to themselves than helping the people, a rally for autistic children heard in Kelowna on Sunday. NDP MLA Harry Lali (Fraser-Nicola) blasted the governing Liberals for placing profits for big corporations above the needs of disabled kids and homeless people. "Gordon Campbell would rather spend $250...

Golden Star HSA's Run for the Cure team in Golden was the proud recipient of this year's team challenge award in that community's Run for the Cure. HSA is a platinum sponsor of the CIBC Run for the Cure and is the Union that represents over 120 health care professionals in the province. These health care professionals include the Mammographers...

Vancouver Sun HSA President Reid Johnson, who is the Chair of the BC and Yukon Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's working group on Health Human Resources for the 2020 Task Force on breast cancer, was among the featured experts in the recent Vancouver Sun special section on breast cancer.

Penticton Western NewsI want to take this moment to say a huge thanks to everyone who voted for me and my bid to be a Penticton School Trustee. My campaign was financed by a very small budget. Without the support of my union, Health Sciences Association, the Canadian Labour Congress, the South Okanagan Boundary Labour Council and the Penticton International...

The ProvinceBy Ian Austin A year-long study of the effect of private clinics on the Canadian public health-care system has concluded that wait times are longest in areas where private clinics take personnel from the public system. "We found evidence of wait times that are highest in areas with the most privatization, as resources -- financial and human -- are...

Prince Rupert Daily News By Patrick Witwicki The Run for the Cure is back for another lap. Last year, CIBC's Run for the Cure made its debut in Prince Rupert, and was considered a moderate success. Not necessarily from the funds that were raised -- although the B.C. provincial total was impressive at $26 million -- but with the number...