Healthcare Canada

• Race-based data can help address health inequities in Canada: experts

  Many racialized communities, which have higher rates of some chronic diseases, have called for race-based data to gain insights into contributing factors such as poverty.

  Health

  Jun 26, 2023
  
• ‘Tug-of-war’: Health spending debate between feds, provinces still up in the air

  Canada's federal and provincial governments' nearly two-year fight over the need for new spending on the country's universal health-care system will drag into next year.

  Canada

  Dec 22, 2022
  
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• Health ministers to hear more details on federal funding promised by Ottawa

  B.C. is hosting the country's health ministers for a second day of talks in Vancouver that are set to include discussions with federal minister Jean-Yves Duclos.

  Canada

  Nov 8, 2022
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• Feds will invest more in health care, but need to see results: Trudeau

  All 13 provincial and territorial health ministers are expected to meet with their federal counterpart, Jean-Yves Duclos, today and tomorrow in Vancouver.

  Health

  Nov 7, 2022
• Federal spending on health care set to rise faster than planned: PBO

  Federal health transfers are calculated to grow by at least 3% each year, but the budget office says that health-care transfers are set to rise by almost 5% year-over-year.

  Canada

  Mar 10, 2022
• Premiers ‘disappointed’ Trudeau wouldn’t discuss health-care funding at meeting

  On Wednesday, premiers were scaling back expectations, saying it will take multiple meetings to come to any resolution on health transfers.

  Canada

  Dec 10, 2020
• People classified as trans by health-care providers may actually identify as male or female: study

  The new research found that some transgender people do not want to identify as trans with their health-care providers.

  Health

  Jan 21, 2019
• What you need to know about a universal prescription drug plan

  A panel recommends that essential, medically necessary drugs be free for all Canadians under the universal healthcare system. Here's what you need to know about national pharmacare.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2016