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The Ontario government is turning to private surgical clinics to tackle backlogs and wait lists. But the move has raised concerns about the privatization of health care in the province.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Tamara Daly of York University focuses on for-profit eye surgery clinics — they've been around for decades, performing laser eye surgery and certain other procedures, and now they're being tapped to do cataract surgeries paid for by OHIP.
She argues that allowing private clinics to profit is no solution to the health-care crisis. In fact, it could worsen the situation by exacerbating staffing shortages in the public system and diverting funding away from public hospitals and clinics.
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Ontario’s push to for-profit surgical clinics is bad news for the non-profit public health-care system.
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Tamara Daly, York University, Canada
Ontario is significantly expanding the number and range of medical procedures performed in privately run clinics. Here’s why that’s so problematic.
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Justice Paul Rouleau, who headed the Public Order Emergency Commission last year, tables his report on Monday about the inquiry’s findings into national security issues and the so-called Freedom Convoy.
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Reem Bahdi, University of Windsor; Fahad Ahmad, Toronto Metropolitan University; Jeffrey Monaghan, Carleton University; Yasmeen Abu-Laban, University of Alberta
Approaches to security issues in Canada today need to learn from the dire histories of what happens under the banner of national security.
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There have been calls for a judicial inquiry into abuse in Canadian sport, but a restorative approach would better protect athletes.
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Peter Donnelly, University of Toronto; Bruce Kidd, University of Toronto
There are growing calls for a judicial inquiry to investigate abuse in Canadian sport. We argue that there are better alternatives to address the problem.
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People gather in the Davos Congress Center prior to the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2023.
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Adam Sneyd, University of Guelph
A renewed attempt to revamp global partnerships appears to be promising, but at a time of overlapping global emergencies, the pitfalls are numerous.
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Le monument aux héros du ghetto, dans la capitale polonaise, commémore le soulèvement du ghetto de Varsovie en 1943. Depuis quelques années, l’histoire de l’Holocauste est de plus en plus controversée en Pologne.
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Jan Grabowski, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
L’Holocauste est devenu une question controversée en Pologne ces dernières années. Ceux qui contestent le récit historique du gouvernement ont été condamnés et poursuivis en justice.
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Business + Economy
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John J Stremlau, University of the Witwatersrand
Raymond W. Baker says the estimated hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden wealth a decade ago has skyrocketed to trillions today.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The slow release of information about the chemical spill and results of air and water tests have left many questions about the risks and long-term impact.
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Science + Tech
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Tessa Vernstrom, The University of Western Australia; Christopher Riseley, Università di Bologna
Astronomers have detected a radio glow caused by shockwaves in the gigantic filaments between galaxy clusters in the ‘cosmic web’ which pervades the Universe.
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