Financing

Moist warns U.K. unionists about “Canadian model” for cuts

Jun 17, 2010 09:45 AM In an address to Britain’s largest union, Paul Moist warned about the harsh realities of the ‘Canadian model’ for public spending cuts that the U.K. government wants to pursue to axe services and jobs.

New Brunswick fixes education funding

Jul 10, 2009 10:24 AM The New Brunswick government announced Jul. 10 it will reverse a $2.9 million cut to school districts.

CUPE predicts public education chaos with Ministry funding change

Oct 24, 2007 06:26 PM BURNABY-School boards are once again being thrown into chaos by government funding dictates, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents close to 25,000 staff in B.C.’s public school system.

New study on health care sustainability

Sep 17, 2007 11:09 AM The CCPA has released a study: How Sustainable is Medicare? refuting the alarmism from the Fraser Institute about health care spending growing out of control.

Sask workers push for legal aid funding

Dec 21, 2006 03:17 PM Federal and provincial governments must improve funding to legal aid, according to Saskatchewan legal aid workers, members of CUPE 1949.

Closure of Antigonish X-Ray department "preventable, unacceptable"

Jul 25, 2006 09:56 AM

ANTIGONISH – Karen MacKenzie, president of CUPE 2525 and a diagnostic imaging technologist, says the Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority (GASHA) should have acted sooner and worked harder to avoid a closure of the x-ray department at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish, N.S.

Re-establishing a Federal Role in Hospital Infrastructure Finance

Dec 20, 2005 10:07 AM “Will Paul Martin Live Up to His Father’s Legacy?" CUPE and Health Coalitions Call for the Federal Government to Restore Its Role in Hospitals in New Discussion Paper.

Health care funding in Ontario

Oct 20, 2004 11:18 AM Total health care operational spending by the provincial government will increase to $30.26 billion this year (2004-05) according to the provincial government spending Estimates. This is an increase of $2.033 billion from 2003-4, or a 7.2% increase.

A 10-year plan to strengthen health care? A critical look at the First Ministers' deal

Sep 21, 2004 10:36 AM Federal, provincial and territorial first ministers met in Ottawa from September 13 – 16, 2004 in an attempt to reach yet another agreement to resolve health care funding and delivery woes. Paul Martin and the federal Liberals election promised that it would be a deal to “fix health care for a generation.” Here is what happened.

Federal 2004 budget falls short on sustainability for public health care

Mar 25, 2004 01:53 PM The federal government has opted for the status quo on health transfers. Provinces will threaten to privatize.