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		<title>Federal health minister missing in action (again) during major conference on drug coverage</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/25/federal-health-minister-missing-in-action-again-during-major-conference-on-drug-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 12:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carleton University Pharmacare conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHC Pharmacare 2013 Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Connell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Lexchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Connors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leona Aglukkaq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Brougham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking Drug Coverage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA – Experts came from as far away as France, the United Kingdom and even New Zealand. Politicians from both the NDP and Liberals were there, as well as academics and policy-makers from across Canada. But Leona Aglukkaq, Canada’s Federal Minister &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/25/federal-health-minister-missing-in-action-again-during-major-conference-on-drug-coverage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3261&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Jeff Connell (Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association) says Ontario spend $24 million more than they needed to by delaying adoption of the generic version of just one drug -- Crestor -- into the provincial formulary.</media:title>
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		<title>Federal health funding scheduled to drop when it most needed &#8212; McBane</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/24/federal-health-funding-scheduled-to-drop-when-it-most-needed-mcbane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Health Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal-provincial health accord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harper health care policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Len Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael McBane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA - In the late 1970s it was Monique Begin, then Federal Minister of Health and Welfare, who suggested that citizens needed to mobilize into coalitions to make noise in society to get anything to work. As Michael McBane, the present &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/24/federal-health-funding-scheduled-to-drop-when-it-most-needed-mcbane/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3257&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Michael McBane of the Canadian Health Coalition speaks to the Canadian Health Professionals Secretariat meeting Thursday. Seated next to him is NUPGE&#039;s Len Bush.</media:title>
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		<title>Transferring hospital services to private clinics &#8212; a line in the sand</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/23/transferring-hospital-services-to-private-clinics-a-line-in-the-sand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Code Blue Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Kitts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marlene Rivier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maude Barlow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike McBane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Mehra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario Health Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raging Grannie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA - Natalie Mehra says The Ontario Health Coalition is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to service transfers to private endoscopy clinics from The Ottawa Hospital. Speaking at a “Code Blue” forum in Ottawa last night, the &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/23/transferring-hospital-services-to-private-clinics-a-line-in-the-sand/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3252&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Code Blue in Ottawa: Marlene Rivier chairs a panel including (R-L) Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Mike McBane (Canadian Health Coalition) and Natalie Mehra (Ontario Health Coalition).</media:title>
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		<title>Academics present evidence that austerity really does kill</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/22/academics-present-evidence-that-austerity-really-does-kill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Austerity Kills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Stuckler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario is presently entering year two of its austerity program, convinced that it is the only way out of an economic problem that wasn’t even created here. We have previously highlighted economic arguments that suggest austerity creates a self-defeating “fiscal &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/22/academics-present-evidence-that-austerity-really-does-kill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3250&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lou Rinaldi must be stewing over Biron’s appointment as TSH CEO</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/21/lou-rinaldi-must-be-stewing-over-birons-appointment-as-tsh-ceo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lou Rinaldi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody can say Robert Biron didn’t know what he was getting into. The former CEO of Cobourg’s Northumberland Hills Hospital has come to the big city, the next in line to take on the seemingly impossible task of fixing The &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/21/lou-rinaldi-must-be-stewing-over-birons-appointment-as-tsh-ceo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3248&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health care activists set to converge on Niagara-on-the-Lake July 24-25</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/17/health-care-activists-set-to-converge-on-niagara-on-the-lake-july-24-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 24-26 the provincial Premiers will be meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake for the last Council of the Federation meeting before the 10-year federal-provincial health accord expires. What comes next is largely a mystery. The federal government has committed to increased transfers &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/17/health-care-activists-set-to-converge-on-niagara-on-the-lake-july-24-25/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3245&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ontario Shores under aggressive timelines to fix safety issues</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/16/ontario-shores-under-aggressive-timelines-to-fix-safety-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Labour Orders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario Shores now has its orders from the Ministry of Labour. It’s been almost a year since staff at the Whitby mental health centre went public with their concerns about violence at the Centre, expressing concern and frustration about a &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/16/ontario-shores-under-aggressive-timelines-to-fix-safety-issues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3240&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa parody of Gangnam Style makes the case for unions</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/16/ottawa-parody-of-gangnam-style-makes-the-case-for-unions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gangnam Style video about unions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the more ambitious low-budget videos we have seen that makes the case for unions in Canada. Made by Corinne Dara, it is billed as a parody of Gangnam Style.  It certainly brought a smile to our faces. Nothing like enjoying &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/16/ottawa-parody-of-gangnam-style-makes-the-case-for-unions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3238&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A hornets&#8217; nest in Trenton over plans to replace the hospital lab</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/15/a-hornets-nest-in-trenton-over-plans-to-replace-the-hospital-lab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Clare Egberts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a hornets&#8217; nest for the past two months. Quinte Health Care’s plan to shut down its lab at Trenton Memorial Hospital and replace it with “Point of Care Testing” (POCT) has raised the ire of local doctors, politicians and &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/15/a-hornets-nest-in-trenton-over-plans-to-replace-the-hospital-lab/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3232&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ombudsman seeking expanded role since 1975 – could this finally be the time?</title>
		<link>http://diablogue.org/2013/05/14/ombudsman-seeking-expanded-role-since-1975-could-this-finally-be-the-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2013 spring budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There is no effective, independent, investigative oversight of hospital administration. Period.” – Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin, 2008 Ontario has been resisting Ombudsman oversight of its public hospitals for long enough. Marin says he is not the first to demand this &#8230; <a href="http://diablogue.org/2013/05/14/ombudsman-seeking-expanded-role-since-1975-could-this-finally-be-the-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diablogue.org&#038;blog=11299911&#038;post=3230&#038;subd=opseudiablogue&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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