Defending Public Healthcare: P3 hospital debts threaten quality of health care
Patients in Britain could see their health care services cut as a result of botched public private partnership (P3) hospitals. The Public Accounts Committee of the British House of Commons has...
View ArticleDefending Public Healthcare: P3 costs rise as scandal sours investors
MUHC The Washington Post reports that the sales "of Canadian project-finance bonds are lower this year as an ongoing investigation of alleged corruption in the Quebec construction industry makes the...
View ArticleDefending Public Healthcare: P3 corporations give award for crap financing deal
Nouveau CHUM The Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships has honoured the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), the Collectif Santé Montréal (CSM) and Infrastructure Québec...
View ArticleDefending Public Healthcare: P3 transparency? Hardly: private profit prefers...
The corruption scandal rocking a public private partnership (P3) hospital project in Quebec has raised some significant doubts about P3s in Canada. Over the weekend even the normally pro-privatization...
View ArticleDefending Public Healthcare: Ontario P3 fiasco: $90 million cost to finance...
The majority of the costs reported by the Auditor General for the cancellation of the Mississauga gas plant were payments to the U.S. based investment firm that provided financing for the project —...
View ArticleDefending Public Healthcare: Are Ontario P3 projects plagued by corruption?
A commission of inquiry has heard that SNC-Lavalin deliberately went around Quebec’s political party financing rules, leading to a flurry of donations to the governing Quebec Liberal Party in 2009....
View ArticleDefending Public Healthcare: Are hospitals primarily providers of acute care?
Hospitals are often stereotyped as providers of acute care services. In fact, acute care accounts for a relatively small portion of total hospital services. As noted a few days ago, costs per acute...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: No Guarantee P3 Financing For Community Centre Will...
Rob DouglasBuilt almost 40 years ago, the Cowichan Community Centre (now known as the Island Savings Centre) provides Cowichan residents with a swimming pool, hockey arena, gymnasium, library, art...
View ArticleDefending Public Healthcare: Hospital P3 scandal gets worse, but Ontario...
The public private partnership (“P3″) hospital scandal in Montreal is getting even worse, if that is possible. As reported earlier, a police corruption investigation showed how SNC-Lavalin officials...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: At least Liberal inconsistency is consistent
BC’s recent Budget and Fiscal Plan states total provincial debt is $63 billion. This amount, 62% higher than in 2009, is 27.3% of gross domestic product. Five years ago, the ratio was 18.7%.By any...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: Sea to Sky Highway subsidy $12-$15 each vehicle
News item, June 10, 2005: “VANCOUVER (CP) – The British Columbia government has signed a deal with a transportation consortium to design, build and manage improvement to the Sea-to-Sky Highway north of...
View ArticleNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: All the spin that’s fit to print
This week, British Columbia saw evidence that corporate media does not report adverse details about public finance unless the material is dropped on desks in digested form, complete with defensive spin...
View ArticleNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: You can’t handle the truth: BC Liberals
Site C not necessarily a slam dunk: Bennett, Business in Vancouver, October 15, 2014 “Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett says he is still torn on whether his government should give the green light...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: Wynne and Clark cling to discredited P3s despite damning report
Infrastructure Ontario CEO Bert Clark says the $8 billion premium the government spent to build public infrastructure under the public-private partnership model doesn’t tell the whole story. He’s...
View ArticleNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Laila rules
Almost a year ago, blogger Laila Yuile reported on retaining wall defects along the Sea to Sky Highway. Pictures were included: Troubling photos spark Ministry of Transportation inspections of Sea to...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: Thomas Mulcair in Contempt of Greenpeace,...
On March 24, 2005, the following items were tabled in the Quebec National Assembly. Copy of a letter, dated 24 March 2005, he sent to Mr. Jacques Saint-Laurent,Chairman of the Commission d’accès à...
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Thomas Mulcair in Contempt of Greenpeace,...
On March 24, 2005, the following items were tabled in the Quebec National Assembly. Copy of a letter, dated 24 March 2005, he sent to Mr. Jacques Saint-Laurent,Chairman of the Commission d’accès à...
View ArticlePushed to the Left and Loving It: Thomas Mulcair in Contempt of Greenpeace,...
On March 24, 2005, the following items were tabled in the Quebec National Assembly. Copy of a letter, dated 24 March 2005, he sent to Mr. Jacques Saint-Laurent,Chairman of the Commission d’accès à...
View ArticleMichal Rozworski: Ours to own, not theirs to profit
It seems the public sector is under attack from all directions these days. Despite historically low public financing costs, despite proven efficiency and innovation, the public sector gets a bad rap in...
View ArticleDefend Public Healthcare: Six more problems with Public Private Partnerships...
The Auditor General (AG) has again identified issues in her annual report which reflect problems with Ontario health care capacity and privatization. First, here are six key
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