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Curious how often the federal budget mentions healthcare?

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Budget 2025 Takeaways
The budget includes some new health-related measures.
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Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.

It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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U.S. pushes drugmakers to reveal confidential details of contracts with Canada, other countries www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco... @hannay.bsky.social

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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event on lowering drug prices, in the Oval Office at the White House, on Nov. 06.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada's Measles Elimination Status www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Canada loses measles elimination status after more than 25 years www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/can...

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Warning signage for suspected cases of measles is seen outside the main entrance of Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., Thursday, May 22, 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ER doctor warns foreign worker cuts will impact healthcare wait-times https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/er-doctor-warns-foreign-worker-cuts-will-affect-hospital-wait-times-and-patient-outcomes/

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Dr. Bernard Ho discusses what impact cuts to the federal temporary foreign worker program will have on the already stretched-thin health-care system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New website launching for adult cancer patients to find and join clinical trials www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @kellygrant1.bsky.social

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Nearly a decade ago, Laura Crane joined a clinical trial for her cancer. Now, she is healthy, and looking back, she wishes that finding a study was easier.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Are Ford government's much-touted HART Hubs working? https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ford-government-promised-these-health-care-centres-would-be-far-better-than-supervised-consumption-sites/article_2bc7b925-1320-44d1-9494-c6217c83715f.html

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Dylan McCormack-Woolacoot is pictured outside the Parkdale Queen West HART Hub. He says he hasn't noticed any real change since the supervised consumption site converted to a HART hub but has observed more people using drugs outside and around the vicinity. Omar Mosleh/ Toronto Star
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Thousands protest, demanding Quebec suspend law restricting doctors' labour actions, decreasing pay https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-medical-federations-bill-2-rally-9.6972775

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Organizers say 12,500 tickets were distributed for Sunday's rally, demanding Quebec withdraw a controversial law to reform physicians' pay.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I was recruited to join a private health centre as a doctor. Here's why I said no www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @danyaalraza.com @thestar.com

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"During my conversation with the recruiter, I asked what would happen if someone approached me who couldn't afford the fee," writes Dr. Danyaal Raza. "The answer was blunt: I'd have to see them 'somewhere other than the clinic.' "
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Facebook ads make it easy for users to get their hands on illegal drugs — we bought cocaine and oxycodone www.thestar.com/news/investi... @thestar.com

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an oxycodone tablet seen close-up on a scratched cutting board
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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As pistachio recalls continue, this Ottawa chocolatier is reassuring his customers https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/as-pistachio-recalls-continue-this-ottawa-chocolatier-is-reassuring-his-customers-9.6971840

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Shelled pistachios are seen at Pistachio Choco. Alfara said they had already switched providers before the first recalls were issued for quality-related reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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FDA removes decades-old warning on hormone therapy for menopause https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/fda-reverses-hormone-warning-menopause-health/

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Hormone replacement patches are seen in 2003, the year the FDA put a black box warning on the therapies. The agency reversed its decision on Monday.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status tomorrow https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-measles-elimination-status-public-health-vaccines/

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In 1998, Canada earned its elimination status after a successful, years-long campaign to popularize the measles vaccine. But this past year, the country has seen a dramatic rise in the disease with 5,139 cases.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Oligarchs Are Making One Anyway. www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...

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Illustrations of cells, tissues, a brain..
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Thousands expected to protest Quebec's doctor payment bill at Bell Centre https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/doctors-gather-to-protest-physician-payment-bill-at-bell-centre/article_a0ec65d8-19d9-5f6f-8526-abfb3ecf533e.html

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In front of the legislature in Quebec City, a giant puppet representing Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé stands as people demonstrate against a law that changes how doctors are paid, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Infants Bear the Brunt of RSV Hospitalizations, UBC Study Finds https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/05/Infants-Bear-Brunt-RSV-Hospitalizations/

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November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Canada could face 'worst kind' of flu season, experts warn https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-flu-season-warnings-9.6970982

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A colourized transmission electron microscope
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Infant botulism in 10 US states linked to formula being recalled https://globalnews.ca/news/11518322/infant-botulism-in-10-us-states-linked-to-formula-being-recalled/

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The Food and Drug Administration seal is seen at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. .
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Coffee may protect against irregular heartbeats https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/coffee-may-help-protect-against-afib-study-finds-rcna242576

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Doctors often tell patients with A-fib to stop drinking caffeinated coffee.
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Curious how often the federal budget mentions healthcare?

The analysis you’re looking for 👇

canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/08/b...
Budget 2025 Takeaways
The budget includes some new health-related measures.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... @statnews.com

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James Watson in a 2004 photo taken at an exhibit in Berlin.
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Blood thinners not needed for many with irregular heartbeat, says Canadian study https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/blood-thinners-no-longer-needed-for-many-with-irregular-heartbeats-study-suggests/

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A screen displays a patient's vital signs at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, on Nov. 28, 2016.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Internal security review of Winnipeg hospitals in sparks labour complaint by nurses' union https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/security-review-labour-complaint-manitoba-nurses-9.6971245

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Darlene Jackson, president of the Manitoba Nurses Union, says she wants to know why safety concerns at the Health Sciences Centre took so long to be addressed after a recently obtained security review by Shared Health found 'lapses' at Winnipeg's largest hospital in 2020.
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The budget.

It puts $5 billion into “health infrastructure,” which sounds like healthcare funding. But is it?

My breakdown for Canada Healthwatch looks at what’s new, what’s missing, and why health is now being framed as infrastructure.
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM