For health care watchers it was a roller-coaster week. On Tuesday it looked like Canada was poised to finally get a pharmacare program for prescription drugs.
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DEMOCRATS SLAM SENATE BUDGET: ‘It will go down in history as one of the worst budgets Congress has ever passed’
Alex Wong/Getty Images The Senate passed a budget with all Republican votes. The budget would help pave the way for the GOP and Trump’s tax plan. Democrats blasted the budget. Chuck Schumer called it “one of the worst budgets Congress has ever passed.” Moments after the Senate passed a massive fiscal year 2018 budget with […]
Drivers being viewed as 'wallets on wheels' as councils SLASH highways budgets
Some 62 per cent of local authorities have reduced their expenditure on services such as road maintenance, street lights and school crossing patrols since 2016/17, according to the AA. But the motoring organisation found that more than 200 councils are seeking to increase their parking income by raising fees for on and off street parking […]
Universal’s ‘Dark Universe’ Films Will Have Wildly Different Budgets; Warner Bros. Considering Legal Action Over the Name
Universal’s Dark Universe feels like gamble. What if audiences don’t embrace The Mummy? What if their burgeoning cinematic universe built around classic monsters like Frankenstein and the Invisible Man dies on the vine? We’ll see which direction the wind blows in the weeks ahead, but with a Bill Condon-directed Bride of Frankenstein waiting in the […]
Tight budgets could complicate Jeff Sessions’ vow to fight crime
Associated Press/Susan Walsh WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is promising his Justice Department will lead the charge in helping cities fight violent crime, and police chiefs are ready with their wish-lists. More technology to trace guns after shootings. More grant money. More intelligence analysts to help dismantle gangs. More protective gear and equipment. […]
Why national budgets need to take gender into account
A good investment LIKE many rich-country governments, Britain’s prides itself on pursuing policies that promote sexual equality. However, it fails to live up to its word, argues the Women’s Budget Group, a feminist think-tank that has been scrutinising Britain’s economic policy since 1989. A report in 2016 from the House of Commons Library, an impartial […]
