By Jasminee Sahoye Starting Jan. 1, the Ontario government is banning smoking in children’s playgrounds, publicly owned sports fields, and restaurant and bar patios. Also, the Smoke-Free Ontario Act will be revised to bar the sale of tobacco on university and college campuses from the same date. Changes to the act will replace a patchwork […]
By Glen Ford The real vector of mass death stalking West Africa is not the ebola-carrying fruit bat but a global capitalist system that has plundered Africa for centuries. Public health services are perceived as a threat to global capitalism; private profit is the system’s aim. When Ebola had clearly become unmanageable, President Barack Obama […]
Feds face fight over refugee health cuts By Jasminee Sahoye In 2002, when a Guyanese family who claimed their lives were at risk had their refugee status application denied, they were covered for health care. Even so, because they were a family with four children and two have had complicated health issues, they had to […]