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CBC Radio
Thursday, Feb 2 2012
Linda Silas on CBC Radio's The Current speaking about pensions, nurses, health care
Listen to the podcast here:
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CFNU
Friday, Jan 27 2012
Silas comments on new CIHI numbers
The latest Canadian Institute for Health Information data shows that the total number of RNs and LPNs in the country continues to rise. Hopefully, this trend will continue or even accelerate so that we can reclaim the nurse to population ratio we had in the early 1990s. This becomes all the more important as the average age of nurses continues to increase...
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Monday, Jan 16 2012
Why medicare needs Ottawa
ROY ROMANOW, LINDA SILAS AND STEVEN LEWIS
From Monday's Globe and MailPublished Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 2:00AM ESTLast updated Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 7:54AM EST
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Monday, Jan 16 2012
Advertisement placed in the Vancouver Sun in support of expanding medicare at the time of the Premiers meeting in British Columbia.
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Saturday, Jan 14 2012
What premiers could do for health care
Money alone will not improve access to care, quality standards
By Linda Silas, Times Colonist January 15, 2012
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Friday, Dec 23 2011
In defence of public health care
Re: Leaving Canada’s Health-Care Myths Behind, Lorne Gunter, Dec. 21.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. Let’s debate the merits of a single-payer public...
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Wednesday, Dec 21 2011
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.
You were right in noting that much remains to be done on delivering on promises in the last accord, but it's because...
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Thursday, Nov 24 2011
