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Trump and Trudeau's 'stealth privatization' will be at the taxpayer's expense

| January 26, 2017

As with most of Donald Trump's policy ideas, details are still sparse on his plan for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure. But two main pillars of the plan, outlined during the election campaign, stand out. First, he's talking a big game -- a proposed $1 trillion in infrastructure investment to be "spurred" over 10 years. Second -- and here's the rub -- the Trump plan would move to privatize infrastructure on an unprecedented scale, lining the pockets of investors with huge tax breaks in the process.

NUPGE's New forms of Privatization

November 29, 2016 |

In the last few years, the privatization industry has put a lot of effort into coming up with new ways to privatize public services.

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Where's the evidence for a health care sustainability crisis in Canada?

Barret Weber

| November 16, 2016

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There is no overwhelming evidence Canada's health-care system suffers from the dire sustainability crisis we hear so much about from mainstream media and right-wing think tanks.

Just the same, we hear plenty nowadays about the need to "bend the health-care cost curve," in Alberta and across Canada.

A recent book by Gregory Marchildon and Livio Di Matteo, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care, identifies three main phases of health spending in recent Canadian history:

Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivered his Fall Economic Statement on Tuesday with some new commitments to private investment in public infrastructure.

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Trudeau's finance minister wants private investment in infrastructure, non-committal on privatizations

Karl Nerenberg

| November 1, 2016

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Finance Minister, Bill Morneau, delivered his Fall Economic Statement on Tuesday, All Saint's Day, and it is chock full of self-congratulation and sunny projections for future economic success.

Why is Canada still privatizing public services when most of the world is going the other direction?

David McDonald

| October 25, 2016

A funny thing happened on the way to privatization. It didn't really work. Private companies tend to charge more than public ones, and contracting out creates all kinds of administrative costs and legal headaches.

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Brian Day's court challenge threatens universal health care

September 28, 2016

| On September 6, the B.C. Supreme Court began hearing Cambie Surgeries Corp's constitutional challenge to the Medicare Protection Act. Colleen Fuller says the case poses a grave threat to our system.

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Six things you need to know about the greatest threat to medicare in a generation

Michael Butler

| September 7, 2016

Yesterday, The Council of Canadians organized a rally outside the B.C federal courts to protest the greatest threat to Canadian public health care in a generation. As Dr. Brian Day, who is known to many as "Dr. Profit," attempts to land the knock-out punch to medicare, we were on hand to raise awareness and let the courts know we won't stand by quietly as profit triumphs over patients.

Alberta Health Services extends Dynalife medical lab services contract for five years

David J. Climenhaga

| August 25, 2016

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Alberta's health care community was abuzz this morning with word Alberta Health Services has renewed its contract with Dynalife Diagnostic Laboratory Services for five years.

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Kathleen Wynne tried to use First Nations to silence opposition to Hydro One sell-off. She failed.

Fred Hahn

| August 19, 2016

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What happens when you plow ahead with a plan that 83 per cent of Ontarians strongly oppose? For Premier Kathleen Wynne it means a catastrophic drop in approval ratings with only 14 per cent of people now believing she should lead our government.

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Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveils new infrastructure bank

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