{"id":10583,"date":"2026-11-05T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2026-11-12T23:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T04:35:32","slug":"enemies-of-public-health-care-roost-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/enemies-of-public-health-care-roost-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemies of Public Health Care Roost in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian medicare is under attack. Nefarious legislation, insufficient funding and weak leadership are causing this country\u2019s once-cherished public health-care system increasingly to buckle. This week, U.S. dark money-funded think tanks are holding a conference on how to break it permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Jointly organized by SecondStreet.org, the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Montreal Economic Institute, the two-day event set to begin today at the exclusive Albany Club in Toronto is rather innocuously titled \u201cThe Future of Health-Care Reform.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In reality, the event is both a showcase for privatization and a strategy discussion for importing U.S.-style, two-tier health care into Canada. For these special interests the intent is clear: \u201creform\u201d means ruin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian medicare is under attack. Nefarious legislation, insufficient funding and weak leadership are causing this country\u2019s once-cherished public health-care system increasingly to buckle. This week, U.S. dark money-funded think tanks are holding a conference on how to break it permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Jointly organized by SecondStreet.org, the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Montreal Economic Institute, the two-day event set to begin today at the exclusive Albany Club in Toronto is rather innocuously titled \u201cThe Future of Health-Care Reform.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In reality, the event is both a showcase for privatization and a strategy discussion for importing U.S.-style, two-tier health care into Canada. For these special interests the intent is clear: \u201creform\u201d means ruin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/enemies-of-public-health-care-roost-in-toronto\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enemies of Public Health Care Roost in Toronto<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,1053,51],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-healthcare","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10584,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions\/10584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}