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  Profit is Not The Cure - Join thousands of Canadians who are standing up for public health care and telling politicians that "PROFIT IS NOT THE CURE!"
Canadian Federation of  Nurses Unions   Protecting the health of patients and our national health system, and promoting nurses and the nursing profession at the national level - and doing it effectively - is the job of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.

Your Medicare Rights is a campaign to pressure governments to enforce the rules that we, as a society, have agreed define what is fair and equitable about our health care system.

The Tommy Douglas Research Institute is an independent, non-profit Canadian economic and social research and educational organization. Named after T.C. Douglas, the former Premier of Saskatchewan and acknowledged father of Medicare in Canada, the Institute's main goal is to raise public awareness of the respective role of both the large business sector and governments in providing for the well-being of Canadians.

The Medical Reform Group is a democratic organization of physicians, medical students and others committed to ensuring access to high quality health care for all Canadians.

Canadian Doctors for Medicare believe a responsive, sustainable publicly funded healthcare system exists as the highest expression of Canadians caring for one another.

Canadian Health Coalition is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting and expanding Canada's public health system for the benefit of all Canadians.

B.C. Health Coalition champions the protection and expansion of a universal public health care system.

Alberta Friends of Medicare is a coalition of individuals, service organizations, social justice groups, unions, associations, churches and organizations representing various sectors of our communities.

Ontario Health Coalition is a network of over 400 grassroots community organizations representing virtually all areas of Ontario. Our primary goal is to empower the members of our constituent organizations to become actively engaged in the making of public policy on matters related to health care and healthy communities

Coalition Solidarité Santé - Treize organisations syndicales et communautaires créent, en mai 1991 la Coalition pour le maintien de la gratuité dans la santé afin de contrer des éléments majeurs de la réforme de la santé proposés par le gouvernement.

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Tommy Douglas Research Institute

As reported in the Chronicle-Herald, “A group of protesters gathered in Dartmouth on Saturday to praise public health care and denounce a stopgap arrangement between the provincial government and a private medical clinic on Acadia Street

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