Happy New Year: Stories of 2012
Here’s a look back over some of my key stories of the last year.
Tag Archives: Health Care
‘It opens your heart’: Canada approves use of ecstasy in study into post-traumatic stress disorder
Health Canada is allowing two B.C. therapists to import MDMA for the first Canadian study using the illegal substance in trauma survivors’ therapy.
Canada unique for lack of xenophobic sentiment in public discourse: Kenney
The immigration minister said that his immigration crackdown — from marriage fraud to human smuggling and what he called the “abuse of Canada’s generosity” — is not driven by ideology or racism.
A crisis in migrant health
From refugees to temporary foreign workers, migrants are bearing the brunt of health-care cuts in Canada.
Slight reversal in federal refugee health cuts ‘too little too late,’ say doctors
Doctors and health care workers across the country today said a slight reversal in cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program is “too little and too late.”
Conservatives’ Refugee Health Cuts Rile Doctors
‘Groundswell’ of anger by MDs, other health providers, against hit to Interim Federal Health Program.
Self-care and social change
It’s time to stop splitting social change from self-care – and embrace healing justice in our communities.
On the outside looking in: Indigenous peoples excluded from premiers’ health talks
Is there a link between the tar sands pipelines, the premiers’ health conference, and Indigenous rights? The Left Coast Post sat down with Indigenous advocates in Victoria.
Premiers united in opposition to Conservatives’ ‘unilateral’ health care decision
Premiers say they will band together to get the federal government back at the health care table, but will Ottawa budge from its increasingly tough stance?
Gabor Maté: ‘Organized insanity’ for doctors to ignore health, poverty link
Can social inequity cause sickness? Vancouver’s Dr. Gabor Maté thinks so.
David P Ball 