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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉

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Senior researcher & political economist @policyalternatives.ca Health services, public finance, care economy, privatization, policy solutions SFU PhD candidate. Views mine www.policyalternatives.ca/news-rese…

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 15h
When it comes to public health care, the cupbaord is bare But there are bilions for a pipeline that will employ fewer than a smalll hospital long-term www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Doug Ford says Ontario taxpayers will invest in proposed pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia
A Liberal MPP on Tuesday compared the project to the Ontario premier's proposal for a tunnel under Highway 401.
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Vancouver Sun @vancouversun.bsky.social · 15h
B.C. judge drops drug charges against Vancouver compassion club, declares law illegal vancouversun.com/news/bc-judg...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 15h
Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says | The Tyee
A letter obtained by The Tyee shows the state’s Ecology Department has serious concerns about spill risks and tanker traffic.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 17h
ICYMI: New report shows how patients are waiting longer for surgery in Ontario. @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 19h
The rise of for-profit industry comes as Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare eliminate nearly 500 jobs. #canlab @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
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The struggle between Hamilton hospital cuts and private clinic growth
Rise of for-profit industry comes as Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare eliminate nearly 500 jobs.
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Calgary Herald @calgaryherald.com · 29/09/2026
Wait times increased for some surgeries outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report calgaryherald.com/news/canada/...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 22h
Study finds outsourcing medical procedures isn’t reducing wait times via @globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/video/120763... #onpoli
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Study finds outsourcing medical procedures isn’t reducing wait times | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Study finds outsourcing medical procedures isn’t reducing wait times Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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National Post @nationalpost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait times increased for some surgeries outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 23h
ICYMI: Private clinics and public money in #Ontario: how are wait times still increasing? @alonghurst.bsky.social explains on CBC how wait times are increasing following the Ontario government's changes to the province's health-care system. #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 23h
“It’s deeply alarming that so much money has been spent on for-profit surgeries and, yet, we don’t have the results to show what Ontarians are getting for those dollars,” said report author @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 29/09/2026
The fastest way to reduce working poverty is to raise the minimum wage to Ontario’s living wage #canlab #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Ontario’s minimum wage is falling further behind the living wage | CCPA
Every year the minimum wage in Ontario has a modest increase. And every year the actual living wage pulls further away. 2026 is no different.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My story about Second Sons showing up in Kamloops and how experts say this is a wake up call to law enforcement, and to political parties who have been making space for residential school denialists. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Masked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears | The Tyee
‘I don’t want these people in my neighbourhood, in my city, in my country.’
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The outbreak at Cargill was not inevitable,” Tucker said. “It was the result of systems and leaders failing — leaders who lacked the courage to do what they should have done.” #abpoli #cdnpoli calgaryherald.com/news/new-rep...
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New report cites 'catastrophic failure' of government response to Cargill COVID-19 outbreak in 2020
New report describes "catastrophic failure" of the province to adequately protect Cargill workers during a massive COVID-19 outbreak in 2020
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it looks like Carney will announce approval of LNG Canada, Phase 2, tomorrow at 11am in Vancouver. It will no doubt come with massive taxpayer funded gifts of money for Big Oil, called subsidies. The locals in Kitimat call the flare stack the "eye of Sauron."
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BREAKING: New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’
The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The paramount concern is we’re not seeing this policy direction achieving the results that the government claimed it would,” Longhurst said at a news conference Monday. “And we’re a number of years into this.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The movement of resources and funding to the private sector for lower complexity procedures often results in increased wait times for those more complex procedures like cancer surgeries, where they’re only performed in public hospitals" nationalpost.com/news/canada/... #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Wait times increased for some surgeries outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Wait times for surgery and medical imaging in Ontario have increased since the government began outsourcing to private for-profit clinics.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 28/09/2026
As CCPA Senior Researcher @alonghurst.bsky.social explains in his report, covered below, the Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services. #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'If the privatization of surgeries and diagnostic procedures was sound health care policy, then the evidence would support this direction—but it does not.' @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'This research study analyzes how the ON govt’s policy direction favours the for-profit surgical & medical imaging industry over public hospitals & evaluates whether this policy direction is reducing wait times & serving the public interest.'
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Since the provincial government has prioritized for-profit surgical and diagnostic delivery over the expansion of public sector capacity and improvement, wait times are generally increasing in Ontario" #onpoli www.cp24.com/local/toront...
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Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
David Eby taps lobbyist to lead B.C. election campaign Oates previously lobbied Eby’s government on behalf of companies including Shoppers Drug Mart, Uber and Global University Systems, a network of private universities theijf.org/brief/david-...
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David Eby taps lobbyist to lead B.C. election campaign
Cheryl Oates’ firm represents Uber, Loblaws and other companies actively lobbying the province
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Artificial intelligence looks more and more like the outcome of natural stupidity: yle.fi/a/74-20248236
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Finnish MP warns against politicians becoming "AI puppets"
Use of the technology is increasingly evident in day-to-day politics, Left Alliance MP Anna Kontula says, including to write speeches delivered in parliament.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
5/8 The electoral math is changing. Since April, UCP voter intention plummeted 14 points outside Calgary and Edmonton, and dropped 10 points within Calgary itself. Political science professor Lisa Young notes Calgary will be a critical battleground.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
3/8 The UCP appears to be shedding support on both sides of the independence debate. Separatists are angered by Smith's lack of outright support, while federalists remain frustrated that the controversial question is being asked in the first place.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the whole campaign I will always be thinking: why couldn’t you do this with your existing majority?
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ontario's health-care, education sectors need to spend more or service levels will drop: FAO reports www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli
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Ontario's health-care, education sectors need to spend more or service levels will drop: FAO reports | CBC News
The province's health-care, university and college sectors will need to make cuts in order to sustain their current service levels, according to reports from Ontario's Financial Accountability Office ...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did David Eby Make a Big Mistake? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Did David Eby Make a Big Mistake? | The Tyee
New poll shows Conservatives ahead and doubts about the need for an election.
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Alanna Smith @alannasmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More than a dozen emergency room nurses have resigned from a hospital in the Greater Toronto Area over the past two months, owing to unmanageable patient volumes and an unsafe work environment, according to a provincial union. #onpoli @theglobeandmail.com
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Fifteen ER nurses leave Ontario hospital citing overcrowding, safety issues, union says
Resignations at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital highlight a health care system under pressure across the country
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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 25/09/2026
Premier David Eby’s decision to call an early snap election has backfired in early days, according to a new poll. cheknews.ca/rob-shaw-poll-shows-sup…
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Rob Shaw: Poll shows support for BC NDP falling after snap election call
Premier David Eby’s decision to call an early snap election has backfired in early days, according to a new poll.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 18/09/2026
Senior Economist @marclee.bsky.social would rather see the #BC government raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy in order to help reduce the deficit. "It's really about that debt-to-GDP piece, and that is getting up there." @policyalternatives.ca #bcpoli theprovince.com/news/bc-fisc...
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B.C.'s fiscal path unsustainable, economists say, with few easy options to get back on track
A former NDP premier and ex-B.C. Liberal finance minister agreed that the growth in spending leaves the province unprepared for tariffs.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Early election calls are cynical almost as a rule ... Voters clock this, even if they hold their nose and reward the incumbent party. It’s a recipe for distrust and cynicism, and the dish is cooking at the worst possible time."
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Together, these new laws are likely to significantly increase business and employer health care costs—just as private health insurance drives up business costs in the United States.' @policyalternatives.ca @alonghurst.bsky.social
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Alberta’s U.S.-style health care reforms will increase costs for businesses | CCPA
The benefits of single-payer medicare are undeniable. Alberta’s reforms upend the economic benefits of public health insurance
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two days after BC NDP leader David Eby decided to call a snap election, his party is six points behind the opposition BC Conservatives in initial vote intent, according to the Angus Reid Institute
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Ballot Backlash: BC Conservatives open 8-point lead after snap election call, but electorate far from locked in - Angus Reid Institute Canada
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest analysis: Alberta's US-style health care laws are likely to significantly increase business and employer health care costs—just as private health insurance drives up business costs in the US #abpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Alberta’s U.S.-style health care reforms will increase costs for businesses | CCPA
The benefits of single-payer medicare are undeniable. Alberta’s reforms upend the economic benefits of public health insurance
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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Instead of subjecting Albertans to failed 'dual-practice' experiments, we need to listen to global evidence that shows preferential paid access = two-tier health care! ALL Albertans deserve equitable access to the care they need—regardless of their ability to pay for it. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Will Alberta's dual-practice model reduce surgery waits — or only for those who can pay? | CBC News
As provinces grapple with how to decrease wait times for surgeries, Alberta is introducing a system in which doctors can simultaneously work in public hospitals and do private care on the side — a mod...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s strange that the core health workforce strategy of the BC NDP gov seems to be recruitment from the US There is a big retention problem in BC health authorities that remains unaddressed. Nurses’ strike was a symptom of this Also many foreign trained practitioners who can’t get credentialed
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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FOM's Chris Gallaway: The new centre in Airdrie is "good news and long overdue ... But we are disappointed that today’s announcement lacks costing and a timeline for its completion, and doesn’t include a plan to build the full hospital with an ER and acute care beds that this community requires."
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Province building new Airdrie health centre focused on urgent care, maternity and surgical services | CBC News
The Alberta government said the centre will house two facilities to serve the growing bedroom community north of Calgary: an urgent care and birthing centre, and a primary, surgical and ambulatory car...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 22/09/2026
“The frontline workers want to provide a much higher quality of service to workers losing their jobs, but they can’t if there are too few of them,” said @davidmaccdn.bsky.social. #CanadaUSTradeWar #canlab #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/20/t...
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Thousands rely on tariff supports as Ottawa plans fewer benefit-processing staff at Service Canada - The Hill Times
Work-Sharing applications are taking an average of six business days to process, while frontline workers and unions warn that maintaining service levels will depend on staffing capacity.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 23/09/2026
"The [BC] government "appears rudderless, unable to articulate a clear vision for the province apart from ever more mining and fossil fuel development," @marclee.bsky.social wrote. #bcpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/22/n...
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BC's Eby calls snap election as Conservative Party flails
The provincial election will be set for Oct. 24, a week after the municipal elections.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For anyone who has been following developments in Alberta, this should come as no surprise. The race-baiting by the Alberta government is ramping up ahead of the October referendum Nasty, nasty stuff Temporary workers pay taxes and contribute to Alberta's economy www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Alberta premier suggests $1,900 health premium for temporary residents
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is considering adding a health premium for temporary residents to help combat the high cost of care.
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... ‘Health Canada said Wednesday it had suspended the licence of the Taylor Avenue location, further complicating Grifols’ plans to reopen it.’ @alonghurst.bsky.social
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Health Canada suspends licence of Grifols site in Winnipeg
A 22-year-old donor experienced heart problems at the site and later died
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The BC government called a snap election that no one wants, writes @marclee.bsky.social The @policyalternatives.ca BC-based team will have ongoing analysis of where the parties stand across fiscal policy, health care, climate, child care & more #bcpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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The BC election no one wanted | CCPA
The government of British Columbia is calling an election, just two years into a majority mandate and with an opposition mostly in disarray
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow. The election no one asked for and no one wants (especially municipal governments) Will this backfire on the BCNDP?
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 22/09/2026
None of the reasons cited by Prime Minister Mark Carney for airport privatization hold up. So why is he doing it? DT Cochrane writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports | The Tyee
The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absent from the priority list is Alberta’s Bill 11 and the end of single-payer health care Stunning that the federal govt seems to care so little about defending & improving public health care #cdnpoli www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/21/p...
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Pharmaceuticals, digital health data, and men and boys’ health top Minister Michel’s agenda this fall - The Hill Times
With the health file not a priority for this government, the question becomes how will Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Canadians ensure that health system needs ‘are still cutting through the nois...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why are provinces opting for daylight savings time when the evidence clearly shows that standard time is better for health? Bad ideas on the move…
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