This call from Corky to help save our farmland is one to be heeded. Originally posted in the Commonsense Canadian it is followed by a Damien Gillis piece with Harold Steves, a Richmond councillor and Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: West Coast Environmental Law Supports Community Action Regarding Proposed Gravel Mine on Balme Ayre Farm
A petition to the Supreme Court of British Columbia has been filed on behalf of concerned Cowichan Valley residents by Ms. McKenzie requesting a judicial review of the Agricultural Land Commission’s approval to extract Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Challenge Is On To Save The ALR
Dave Barrett Premier of BC 1972-1975 That may change if the obedient Oil and Gas crazed BC Liberal MLA’s have their way dismantling the protections to accommodate non agricultural uses. Perhaps the (Read more…)
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Why are fewer hospital patients waiting for LTC?
Ontario hospitals report a significant decline in the number of patients in hospital beds who are waiting for a long term care bed. From November 2009 to March 2013, the number of patients waiting for LTC was reduced by 1,282 patients, an astonishing decline of 41%. This sounds like a
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Long-term care industry plans reinvention during austerity
Not all beds in “Long Term Care” facilities provide long term care. “Convalescent care” beds are a form of “short-stay” beds in long-term care (LTC) facilities. Convalescent beds receive an extra $70.94 more per day than standard “long term” beds do in LTC facilities. That’s 45.7% more funding than the
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Hospital can’t turn beds over to retirement home
A Windsor hospital has been officially blocked from setting up hospital beds in a for-profit retirement home. As noted in June, the Hotel Dieu Hospital was trying to create 18 “assess and restore” hospital beds in a for-profit retirement home in Amhertsburg. The hitch for the Ministry of Health
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