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Health Care In Danger

Worrying breakdown in Ontario reforms By David South This Magazine (Canada), October-November, 1992 The Senior Citizens’ Consumer Alliance for Long-Term Care’s report on the Ontario New Democratic government’s health care reforms, released in July, documents what many people suspected: the much-needed reforms are mismanaged and dangerously close to chaos. The report compares the present crisis […]

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Health + Human Development Communicator | 1991 – 2017

27 Years Contributing as a Health and Human Development Communicator | 1991 – 2017 Preface Whilst studying at the University of Toronto in the 1980s, the seeds were sown for much of the work that followed in the 1990s and 2000s. And what came together was the ability to undertake innovative communications initiatives using media and the […]

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Private Firms Thrive As NDP ‘Reinvents’ Medicare

By David South Today’s Seniors (Canada), August 1993 Many of today’s seniors fought for Canada’s internationally-admired public health system. But more and more people are becoming worried that the combination of health care reform, funding cutbacks and free trade is fuelling the growth of a second tier of private medical services serving the well off.  […]

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Health Care On The Cutting Block: Ministry Hopes For Efficiency With Search And Destroy Tactics

By David South Today’s Seniors (Canada), August 1993 It’s search and destroy time at Ontario’s ministry of health: search out savings and destroy inefficiency and waste. But many remain apprehensive that not all the cuts are going to be logical and fear the province’s health and well-being will be affected.  As part of the social […]