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  • Secure the Future of Medicare: A Call to Care

    Health care in Canada is a fundamental right without distinction of race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, political belief, immigration status, and economic or social condition. Organizations representing millions of Canadians will mobilize to defend this right and to ensure that the following principles shape the direction of the Health Accord renewal

  • The CFNU would like to wish CNSA great success at their National Conference
    The CFNU would like to wish CNSA great success at their National Conference “Overcoming Challenges, Harmonizing Our Voices” from January 25-28, 2012 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

  • What premiers could do for health care: Money alone will not improve access to care, quality standards

    The premiers are meeting in Victoria next week to talk about health care. Naturally, they are going to talk about money. They will debate whether the Flaherty formula (federal cash transfer increases of six per cent until 2017, and nominal GDP growth thereafter) is fair and realistic. And the premiers will seek to reassure Canadians that medicare is in good hands.

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  • In defence of public health care - Letter to the Editor: National Post
    Lorne Gunter accuses provincial politicians of wanting to keep the single-payer health-care system for no particular reason. I am so tired of evidence-empty arguments calling for more corporate involvement in health care.
  • Letter to the Editor - Globe and Mail
    Your editorial In Search Of A Health-Care Fix (Dec. 21) gives the federal announcement on health-care transfers two thumbs up. One thumbs up was for lowering the already historically average federal contribution to health care, the other for limiting the federal role to banker.
  • CNSA speaks out against issues regarding changes to the RN entry-to-practice exam
    Saskatoon, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – The Canadian Nursing Students’ Association (CNSA) is alarmed by the decision of Canadian nurse regulators to engage in negotiations with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), an American corporation, to create a new Canadian RN entry-to-practice exam.
  • CFNU Advertisement in the Vancouver Sun
    Advertisement placed in the Vancouver Sun - Premiers Meeting January 2012
  • Canadian Nurses Association declares made- and owned-in-Canada RN entry exam essential
    OTTAWA, Jan. 13, 2012 /CNW/ - In an announcement this morning, Canadian Nurses Association president Judith Shamian presented a declaration of essential principles for the development of a made- and owned-in-Canada registered nurse (RN) entry exam.
  • Prince Edward Home to Lose Eight Registered Nurses by Spring of Next Year
    Charlottetown - The Prince Edward Island Nurses’ Union (PEINU) is very concerned that there could be a negative impact on the quality of patient care following Health PEI’s decision to cut numerous registered nursing positions at the Prince Edward Home. The 128 bed health care facility provides Palliative Care; Convalescent/Restorative Care; Respite Care; and Long-Term Nursing Home Care for residents of the Province
  • Feds walk away from health care reform
    The Harper government let down millions of Canadians this week by effectively walking away from the opportunity to craft a 2014 Health Accord that brings real reform to our health care system.

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