… and can I tell you the vast, vast majority of Western Australians don’t either,’ he said. Queensland’s Labor Health Minister Cameron Dick was just as forceful, calling on One Nation’s Queensland leader Steve Dickson to disavow his boss’ views. Mr …
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Premier Ready To Talk With Ottawa About Health Care Funding
In it, Pallister says he is “reluctantly” ready to begin negotiations, but disappointed efforts to work out a national deal with all the provinces has failed. All of provinces balked at the initial offer from the federal government last year which suggested a modest increase to health transfer payments.
B.C. gets money for addictions and mental health in federal deal
After decrying Ottawa’s “divide and conquer” approach on health care agreements, British Columbia signed its own side deal Friday to get extra cash for its ongoing overdose crisis. B.C. had been one of the most vocal critics of Ottawa’s strategy to pick off provinces one by one with special agreements, rather than negotiate across-the-board health transfers with all the provinces.
Addictions should be treated with the same urgency as wildfires
… of community members. Yet, nearly a year after the Christy Clark government branded the fentanyl crisis as a public health emergency, ambulances and naloxone remain one of the only responses available to stem the tide of deaths. Even if the B.C. …