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  1. BC Nurses' Union
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Canada After Harper
    His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
  3. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  4. Connexions Library: Health Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
  5. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
  6. HealthSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  7. Life Before Medicare
    Canadian Experiences
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  8. Medicare Myths and Realities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
  9. National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
    Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
  10. Ontario Nurses' Association
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  11. Privatization and Health Care
    The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
  12. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  13. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
  14. Take Care
    Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
  15. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
  16. Unsafe Practices
    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
  17. Wasting Away
    The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.
  18. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
  19. Whose Health Care?
    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005

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