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      Why Does Canada Still Allow Torture in Prisons?

      The consciousness of Canadians has caught up with what prisoners have known for years. Prolonged solitary confinement is torture.

      Catherine Latimer
      Aug 10, 2022

      Eddy Nalon bled to death in a segregation cell at Millhaven Penitentiary on this day in 1974. For every year since, prisoners have courageously marked Aug. 10 as Prisoners Justice Day.

      Despite this international standard and the admonishments of Canadian courts, Canada continues to practice this form of abuse.

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      Private Clinics Won't Solve Ontario's Healthcare Crisis and the Sickest Patients Will Suffer the Most

      Private operators may offer faster access to services for their paying clients, rather than determining access to care based on the urgency of need.

      Linda Mcquaig
      Jul 21, 2022

      Now that it's clear Premier Doug Ford will rule over Ontario for another four years, we can begin to survey the damage he's likely to do in some key areas--like health care.

      It takes decades of careful planning and wilful treachery to devise a health-care system as wretched as the American one.

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      Long-Banned Private Hospitals in Ontario Could Soon Return

      Christine Elliott’s recent reference to "private hospitals" was brief, but for veterans of health care battles, it stood out like a bleeding appendage.

      Linda Mcquaig
      Mar 11, 2022

      In many ways, the long-running battle to save medicare from privatization is a battle for the soul of Canada. And it's a battle that's about to heat up.

      Public health care is much more cost-effective than private health care--as illustrated by the fact that the mostly private U.S. system is far more expensive than the mostly public systems in Canada and Europe.

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