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A prescription for progress: boosting Canada’s family doctors by 50 per cent

  • One of the key drivers of the primary care crisis is our failure to fully use the skills of internationally trained physicians already living
Opinion | BY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, INDEPENDENT SENATOR MOHAMED-IQBAL RAVALIA, INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR, KAREEM EL-ASSAL | October 14, 2024
Among the steps the federal government can take is to directly fund medical faculties to create 750 new family medicine residency positions each year, write ISG Senators Stanley Kutcher, Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, and Ratna Omidvar; and Kareem El-Assal. Unsplash photograph by National Cancer Institute

A prescription for progress: boosting Canada’s family doctors by 50 per cent

Opinion | BY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, INDEPENDENT SENATOR MOHAMED-IQBAL RAVALIA, INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR, KAREEM EL-ASSAL | October 14, 2024
  • One of the key drivers of the primary care crisis is our failure to fully use the skills of internationally trained physicians already living

A prescription for progress: boosting Canada’s family doctors by 50 per cent

Opinion | BY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, INDEPENDENT SENATOR MOHAMED-IQBAL RAVALIA, INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR, KAREEM EL-ASSAL | October 14, 2024
  • One of the key drivers of the primary care crisis is our failure to fully use the skills of internationally trained physicians already living
Among the steps the federal government can take is to directly fund medical faculties to create 750 new family medicine residency positions each year, write ISG Senators Stanley Kutcher, Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, and Ratna Omidvar; and Kareem El-Assal. Unsplash photograph by National Cancer Institute

A structured, predictable, and transparent approach to seizing Russian state assets to help Ukraine

  • Bill S-278 would enable Canada to act decisively against state assets involved in grave breaches of international peace and security.
Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | May 1, 2024
Last October, Independent Senator Ratna Omidvar tabled Bill S-278, which brings the mechanism of confiscation into accordance with international law as outlined by the World Refugee and Migration Council. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

A structured, predictable, and transparent approach to seizing Russian state assets to help Ukraine

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | May 1, 2024
  • Bill S-278 would enable Canada to act decisively against state assets involved in grave breaches of international peace and security.

A structured, predictable, and transparent approach to seizing Russian state assets to help Ukraine

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | May 1, 2024
  • Bill S-278 would enable Canada to act decisively against state assets involved in grave breaches of international peace and security.
Last October, Independent Senator Ratna Omidvar tabled Bill S-278, which brings the mechanism of confiscation into accordance with international law as outlined by the World Refugee and Migration Council. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Time to take necessary steps for a more inclusive charitable sector

  • The pandemic has proven how essential the charitable sector is to the health and well-being of all Canadians. But it is sorely in need
Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | December 8, 2021
Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier is pictured in Ottawa on Sept. 15, 2020. The Canada Revenue Agency requires charities who work with non-charities to exercise ‘direction and control’ over them, which Sen. Ratna Omidvar writes need to change. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Time to take necessary steps for a more inclusive charitable sector

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | December 8, 2021
  • The pandemic has proven how essential the charitable sector is to the health and well-being of all Canadians. But it is sorely in need

Time to take necessary steps for a more inclusive charitable sector

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | December 8, 2021
  • The pandemic has proven how essential the charitable sector is to the health and well-being of all Canadians. But it is sorely in need
Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier is pictured in Ottawa on Sept. 15, 2020. The Canada Revenue Agency requires charities who work with non-charities to exercise ‘direction and control’ over them, which Sen. Ratna Omidvar writes need to change. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Charities need money, but also more to spur post-pandemic recovery

  • Charities rarely get attention from the media and so I was gratified to read the op-ed that appeared in this paper on the urgency
Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | August 18, 2021
The pandemic has highlighted that the charitable sector forms an integral part of the social infrastructure of the country, and yet, it doesn’t have the ear of the government, past or present—at least not on an ongoing permanent basis, writes Sen. Ratna Omidvar. Unsplash photograph by Joel Muniz

Charities need money, but also more to spur post-pandemic recovery

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | August 18, 2021
  • Charities rarely get attention from the media and so I was gratified to read the op-ed that appeared in this paper on the urgency

Charities need money, but also more to spur post-pandemic recovery

Opinion | BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR | August 18, 2021
  • Charities rarely get attention from the media and so I was gratified to read the op-ed that appeared in this paper on the urgency
The pandemic has highlighted that the charitable sector forms an integral part of the social infrastructure of the country, and yet, it doesn’t have the ear of the government, past or present—at least not on an ongoing permanent basis, writes Sen. Ratna Omidvar. Unsplash photograph by Joel Muniz
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