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Is the Ontario 2023 Budget really 'working for you'? We bring you seven key takeaways you won't hear in the talking points.

British Columbia Premier Eby’s government faces an uphill climb to improve the NDP’s track record on making BC work for all generations. The 2023 Budget has taken some first steps up this mountain, but there’s more distance to close. We've just released our BC budget breakdown.

The new health money is a win for the personal finances of retirees. But it’s a different story for younger residents, who must pay an ever-growing amount in taxes for the medical needs of our aging population by comparison with what baby boomers paid for retirees when they were younger.

Post Media columnist Daphne Bramham featured Get Well Canada in a recent op-ed, highlighting Dr. Paul Kershaw's analysis of provincial medical and social spending. In the 1970s, provincial governments consistently spent more on social services and education than they did on medical care. Now the opposite is true.

The Hill Times featured the launch of Get Well Canada. Gen Squeeze founder Dr. Paul Kershaw: “By resisting provincial calls for even more medical spending, the Government of Canada has retained fiscal room to slow the flow of sickness into our clinics and hospitals because they are allowing room to invest where health begins,” in areas such as daycare, housing, and child care.

En collaboration avec Think Upstream, le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives, le Centre de collaboration nationale des déterminants de la santé et d'éminents chercheurs en santé de l'Université de Calgary et de l'Université Dalhousie, Generation Squeeze lance Get Well Canada, une alliance visant à investir là où la santé commence.

A new alliance of research and community leaders argues that Canada can’t achieve our health transformation and innovation goals so long as Premiers focus primarily on more money for medical care.

To fix our health care system, we need to focus more on the investments that will prevent illness and keep people well. And that’s more on the social side, that's child care, poverty reduction, housing investments, and so on.

We must focus more on the investments needed to prevent illness. Hospitals and clinics should be the last stops for health, not the first.