Health for All, along with 160 organizations, signed an open letter to Joe Oliver, Minister of Finance, condemning the Budget Bill which includes provisions that will allow provinces to deny social assistance to refugee claimants, and potentially some groups of immigrants and nonstatus people. We oppose such a measure and deem this cruel and unusual. The media coverage of this…
Listen to Health for All member Ritika Goel discuss the federal government's partial reversal of the refugee health cuts after having been directed by a federal court to fully reverse their 2012 cuts.
Listen to Health for All member Faraz Vahid Shahidi on Radio Canada International discussing the recent federal court ruling that deems that the federal government must in fact overturn the refugee health cuts by November 4, 2014.
Listen to Melanie Spence from Health for All interviewed for Rabble.ca by John Bonnar. Melanie discuss the recent ruling of a Federal Court denying the Conservative government a delay on reinstating refugee health cuts. Melanie discusses the recent ruling, the broader context of uninsured in Canada and a trend of regressive immigration policies.
Health for All Protest covered in Rabble. Health-care workers and other service providers rallied Wednesday morning outside the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in Toronto to demand that the Ontario government step up to fill the gap left by federal cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program. The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) provides temporary health-care coverage to eligible…
Piece in OPSEU's Diablogue about Health for All's Fill the IFH Gap Rally: There were hard lessons learned today about how democracy is practiced in this province. About 60-70 protesters, most young health care workers and students, spent more than an hour and a half today outside the downtown Toronto offices of the Ministry of Health. They waited in the bitter cold,…
On OPSEU's Diablogue discussing Health for All's campaign. Even right-wing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall thinks it’s wrong. Recent cuts to the Interim Federal Health program for refugees have led to a storm of criticism by the medical community and provincial politicians across Canada. While Immigration Minister Jason Kenney defends the cuts, stating excluded refugees will still receive essential care, a…
A piece by Health for All members Faria Kamal, Nikki Bozinoff, Nanky Rai, Ritika Goel and Michaela Beder published in Rabble. In a shocking move, the Canadian government is cutting access to health care for refugees across Canada starting on June 30. Health groups are loudly denouncing cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) that provides temporary healthcare to refugees and…