Advocacy Group Opinion News

VANCOUVER, British Columbia & TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (the “Company” or “WELL”), a digital healthcare company focused on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, today expressed its strong support for the Ontario government’s announcement of a new provincewide Primary Care Medical Record system, and confirmed its intent to actively participate in the forthcoming pro...

LAVAL, Quebec--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIOQuébec, the association representing the life sciences and health technologies (LSHT) industry, notes that the government is exercising caution by maintaining its direction for these strategic sectors. The 2026–2027 budget is in line with the priorities established by the Quebec Life Sciences Strategy as well as the Quebec Research and Innovation Investment Strategy, thereby confirming the central role of these sectors in Quebec’s economic development. The gov...

EDMONTON, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The annual convention of the Alberta Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Alberta) will take place this Wednesday to Friday in Edmonton at the Westin Hotel. CUPE Alberta represents 44,000 Albertans working for municipalities, school districts, health care agencies, as well as workers in the post-secondary, social services, museums and library sectors. CUPE Alberta President Raj Uppal expects discussion to revolve around multiple issues fac...

BRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Europe will hold an advocacy action in Brussels on March 18 at 11:00 a.m. CET on Archimedes Street, followed by an in-person and virtual press conference at Press Club Brussels Europe titled “EU: Stop Blocking Health Equity,” urging European Commission (EC) decision-makers to support a legally binding Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) Annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement. Click here to access the Press conference Zoom link, and...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ford Conservatives’ plan to privatize Ontario’s water was conclusively exposed today as leaders from CUPE Ontario and the Ontario NDP were joined by a lawyer from Goldblatt Partners LLP to release a legal opinion that reveals the true intent of Bill 60, the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025. CUPE Ontario commissioned a legal review of Schedule 16 of Bill 60 as part of the union’s fight against the Ford government’s plans to privatize publicly owned regiona...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and its Chicago area affiliate organizations the South Side Help Center (SSHC) and CALOR will team to host a street protest and give testimony before the Chicago Department of Health’s HIV Planning Committee at an emergency public meeting on Friday, March 13, to oppose and halt planned grant funding cuts. The organizations’ actions are part of an effort to restore funding of AHF's HIV Primary Care Services and SSHC's Early Intervention...

HAVANA & MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In spite of record electricity outages and its worst fuel shortage in years, the Cuban people are speaking out with the boldest protests seen on the island since the historic events of July 11, 2021. Despite limited internet access and the authoritarian Cuban regime’s speech restrictions, the Cuban people are sharing their increasingly defiant and unequivocal calls for freedom by sending video messages to allies on and off the island. The Assembly of the Cuban R...

HALIFAX, NS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is calling on the Nova Scotia Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD) to take urgent action to ensure Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) receive the back pay they have been owed for months. Despite having earned these wages, ECEs across the province are still waiting because the Department has not authorized the funding to flow to child care centres. Without this authorization, centres cannot issue th...

YARMOUTH PORT, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As debates continue over elephant numbers, specifically whether Africa’s elephants are overpopulated in some regions or nearing collapse in others, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) is reinforcing a science-based approach and calling for calm, urging those immersed in the debate to ‘cut through the clutter’ by looking beyond headline numbers, and focusing on how elephant populations change over time, their movement across landscapes, and their r...

FRUITVALE, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CUPE 2087 members have voted 100 percent in favour of strike action, in a vote held last Wednesday (March 4). “Our members are proud to provide public services in this community, and taking a strike vote is not a step we take lightly,” said CUPE 2087 Vice President Kevin Pii. “But like everyone else, our members are facing rising costs for everyday necessities like food, housing, and gas. Strike action is always a last resort, and our goal remains r...