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How Canada Scored on the Active Healthy Kids Report Card

Jordan Cieciwa | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada Living
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Jordan Cieciwa

We failed. Active Healthy Kids Canada put out their annual report card, and as a nation, we failed. We need to accept that we have failed. Once we accept it, we now need to decide to get back to living a life built on a desire to be healthy.

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Harper Hacks Down Our Medicare

Danielle Martin | Posted 09.17.2012 | Canada Politics
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Danielle Martin

We need leaders who will rise to the challenge of protecting and improving medicare, not shirk their responsibilities. Prime Minister Harper, you are needed back at the table for a 2014 Health Accord. Canadians have real expectations of you, not just to cut cheques -- and increasingly smaller cheques at that -- but to lead Canada on health care. Your absence will hurt the health of Canadians.

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Let's Treat Our Hips the Same Way We Treat Our Cars

Eric Bohm | Posted 07.09.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Auto Industry, Hip, Nurses, Surgery, Industry, Healthcare Canada, Surgeons, Auto, Health Industry, Medicine, Health Care, Ontario Health, Knee, Canada Living News
Eric Bohm

Hip and knee replacements constitute a billion dollar industry. But why is it that we don't monitor the quality of our goods the same way the automotive industry does? Canada needs to adopt a series of measures to maintain records, and improve not only product quality, but customer satisfaction as well.

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Dear Ontario, Get Ready To Pay For More Health Services

CP | Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.26.2012 | Canada Politics
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TORONTO - Caesarean sections could be one of the services delisted from medicare by the Ontario government as it looks to cut costs and trim a $16-bil...

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Ont. Liberal Calls Conservative Health Plan 'Nonsense'

CBC | Posted 02.19.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Dwight Duncan, Ontario Politics, Health Transfer Plan, Cbc, Ontario Health Care, Health Canada, Health Transfer Payments, Ontario Health, Canada Politics News

Ontario's Liberal government will make it clear to voters that it's the federal Conservatives who are forcing cuts to health services, Fin...

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eHealth Ontario Workers Suing Over Raises

CP | Posted 10.15.2011 | Canada
Read More: Ehealth, eHealth Scandal, Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Liberals, David Caplan, Ontario Health, eHealth Ontario, Canada News

TORONTO - Ontario's Liberal government vowed Friday to fight a proposed class-action suit by employees at scandal-plagued eHealth Ontario, who have ta...

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