The Wellesley Institute has launched a new series in community-based research: Community Perspectives . This series features new research from our enabling grants program. We support and encourage the development of community-based research (CBR) through our CBR practice. We work with community organizations to enhance their capacity to conduct research and influence policy development. Our […]
Pretty words, ugly implications: deconstructing the language of advocates of health care privatization
In my July 3rd blog posting, I was critical of B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon’s views on financial ability as a determinant of access to health care. Now, in an article in the Times Columnist entitled A prescription for the minister of health: ‘Individual choice’ is liberal code for a market-oriented system, Vancouver psychiatrist Dr. […]
President Obama’s News Conference on Health Care Reform
Yesterday, in an attempt to win over both the American public and political opponents (both Democratic and Republican) of ambitious health care reform, President Obama held a prime-time news conference. In the speech, he stated that proposed reforms would cover 97-98 percent of Americans and re-iterated that "health insurance reform will not add to our […]
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US Health Care Reform: An Update before the Speech
Canadians continue to watch with interest and concern as policy-makers in the United States debate how to best reform the US health care system. Canadians and the Canadian health care system have even been targeted in negative advertisements surrounding the potential reforms south of the border. The following is an update to my analysis (posted […]
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Keeping The Homeless Housed: An Exploratory Study Of Determinants Of Homelessness In The Toronto Community
This new research explores alternatives to shared housing as a transitional strategy for Toronto’s chronically homeless population, and exposes a fragmented and confusing system that lacks a focus in developing long term, sustainable strategies for integration into the community. Jacques Tremblay demonstrates homelessness as a health and housing problem, and calls for inter-agency cooperation and […]
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An Ambitious Plan to Reform US Health Care
Recently, Democrats in the US House of Representatives unveiled a 1,018 page health reform package, entitled “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act,” which was based on the requirements set out by President Obama to lower health care costs, let people kept their current insurance and substantially decrease the number of uninsured Americans (currently estimated at 45.7 […]
Privatizing health care services: my un-philosophical objection
According to the Vancouver Sun, new B.C. health minister Kevin Falcon doesn’t “have any philosophical objection” to patients being allowed to pay for faster access to medical services in private surgery clinics (http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/Health+minister+says+private+ health+clinics+okay+with+limits/1729495/story.html). I don’t have a philosophical objection to it either. My objection is practical. If we allow health care procedures to be […]
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Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Towards Recycling In North St. James Town, Toronto
Description: The overall goal of this study was to investigate and understand the factors that prevent and/or facilitate residents from recycling household waste. To achieve this goal, we investigated the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of adult residents of North St. James Town. About the author: Sachet Siwakoti is a first year engineering student at the […]
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Canada’s Non-Profit Maze: An Appendix Of Supporting Tables
The following tables were generated from software used to survey respondents of the Wellesley Institute’s research in Third-Sector regulation and legislation. These tables accompany the “Canada’s Non-Profit Maze” report created by Lynn Eakin and Associates, which was commissioned by the Wellesley Institute. The report provides a troubling picture of the financial and regulatory burdens facing the third […]
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A Policy Perspective On Canada’s Non-Profit Maze Of Regulatory And Legislative Barriers
Canada’s third sector–the vital web of non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations that provide programs and services, and knit together communities–is also a significant economic force. In recent years, governments have increasingly relied on non-profit groups as the delivery agent of choice for government services. “Canada’s non-profit maze” is powerful new research by Lynn Eakin and Associates, commissioned by the […]
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