Tessie Sanci
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Journalist
@hilltimes.com
, health policy nerd and bookworm.
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Coming to you from a new role: I'm now covering health at
@hilltimes.com
. This is one of my first stories. Nunavut and Northwest Territories have been without an agreement for Non-Insured Health Benefits (which helps fund health services for First Nations and Inuit Peoples) since March.
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7 months ago
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13 days ago
High-speed internet "is a centrepiece of what is necessary in rural Canada,â says Buckley Belanger, secretary of state for rural development. âThereâs been a heavy commitment afforded to that connective piece for all of Canada ⌠and weâre making great progress.â
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Feds âon trackâ to connect every household to high-speed internet by 2030, as critics point to gaps in rural and Northern Canada
In 2026, 98.8 per cent of Canadian homes are expected to have access to high-speed broadband, surpassing the Liberal governmentâs goal of 95 per cent set in 2019. But only 16.7 per cent of NunavutâŚ
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/01/05/feds-on-track-to-connect-every-household-to-high-speed-internet-by-2030-as-critics-point-to-gaps-in-rural-and-northern-canada/486851/
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Why was Tory MP Todd Doherty calling for fast-tracking? Because a previous identical bill had made its way through both parliamentary chambers in 2024. It only needed a third reading vote in the Senate before becoming law.
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âWe want to know whatâs on our plate, we want to know what weâre buying, we want to be able to choose our food according to our values ââand concerns,â said agriculture critic Yves Perron during a recent press conference about his support for a petition calling for labels.
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âI think there are reasons for optimism even though, right now, there is no clear plan for implementing pharmacare ... Prior to the next election, this gov't will have to explain what progress has been made toward pharmacare,â said Dr. Nav Persaud.
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Search for alcohol guidelines through Health Canada and you'll find a 2011 webpage advising no more than 2 standard drinks per day for women and no more than 3 daily for men. Updated guidanceâfunded by the deptâstates that up to 2 drinks per week is considered safer.
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There's no new funding for mental health or substance use programs in Budget 2025. Current funds are thanks to two sets of bilateral agreements negotiated by Justin Trudeau's govt. How would Mark Carney's govt move forward on these issues? It's a mystery to those who work in these areas.
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If you're not budgeted out, check out this post-budget webinar featuring former Conservative MP Ed Fast, former BC premier Christy Clark, and former PBO Yves Giroux. Kudos to everyone at
@hilltimes.com
âincluding Peter Mazereeuw and Riddhi Kachhelaâwho worked on this.
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The Hill Times: Navigating Ottawa After the Budget 2025
YouTube video by The Hill Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui7iItYAMzc
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If you were looking for
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funding in this budget, you would have had to literally review the entire document (no health section) and even then you wouldn't have found much.
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This article was inspired by a recent Research Canada conference. A panellist said that health procurement for a Canadian company is "difficult." The audience laughed as if it was an understatement. So, why is it hard and how could the Elbows Up mentality help?
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This story explores national licensing for physicians, which is still in the process phase years after the COVID-19 pandemic. I asked the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada what they're doing about this, and they answered my questions.
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3 months ago
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Your one-stop-shop look at what the
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affairs committeeâand some of their membersâare focusing on this fall.
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3 months ago
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This
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article is a few days old but it's a great read. Check out Marlo Glassâ most recent work as she highlights how the newly-announced budget format impacts northern territories.
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Fall budget cycle 'great news' for 'more timely' northern project planning, says N.W.T. finance minister
'By the time we're actually seeing money coming through, our own estimates of our projects are sometimes six months to a year old,' says Northwest Territories Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek.
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/10/13/fall-budget-cycle-great-news-for-more-timely-northern-project-planning-says-n-w-t-finance-minister/476847/
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âWhen youâre seeing announcements in research and innovation, or digital health, or health equity, or health prevention, or mental health and substance use, itâs very indicative of ⌠essentially [Health Minister Marjorie Michel's] interests,â says Eshan Naik of EnterpriseHealth.
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3 months ago
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The Carney govt hasn't been the most vocal on its health/social policy so the move to focus a pre-budget press conference on actions for low-income Canadians is notable. The Liberals to go ahead with permanent automatic tax-filing, national school food program.
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Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school food program permanent, in advan...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-school-food-automatic-tax-canada-strong-pass-9.6934474
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Trend data going up over 10 years as well as the mental health concerns amongst those who misuse substances, said Patricia Conrod, Canada Research Chair in Preventive Mental Health and Addiction. "That, to me, is a perfect storm and that needs to be addressed immediately."
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4 months ago
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New from me. This Liberal govt may not be interested in discussing pharmacare with provinces/territories that hadn't yet signed agreements, but jurisdictions including Sask. and NL are ready to talk...which is what happens when some provinces get money for something and others don't.
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Want to read the interview? An edited version appears online:
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The Hill Times
6 months ago
Unlocked | House Finance Committee faces pre-budget time crunch ahead of fall tabling
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House Finance Committee faces pre-budget time crunch ahead of fall tabling
The amount of influence the House Finance Committee can have on a government budget is debatable, say observers, who note the fall schedule could provide an opportunity to adjust the process.
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/08/05/house-finance-committee-faces-pre-budget-time-crunch-ahead-of-fall-tabling/469256/
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Missing from the plan are any references to regulating vaping flavours and producing a safe long-term care law, which were both Trudeau promises from 2021. For more info, click on the link.
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CARP's Anthony Quinn told me that before COVID-19, the fight to improve long-term care was typically a private one pursued by residents and their families. Once that resident died, the fight died with them. It was COVID-19 that turned that fight into a public one. It's something to remember.
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This bill to criminalize forced sterilizationsânow re-introducedâhas been before Parliament in some form since 2022. "The survivors are waiting for it...Itâs very important to them, and...itâs very important to me, too,â said Senator Yvonne Boyer.
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7 months ago
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Pandemic Center at Brown Universityâs School of Public Health
7 months ago
Join us this Friday @ 12PM ET for our next webinar: What's at Stake? The impact of US cuts to CDCâs global health programs Moderated by
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Both
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and Northwest Territories have been without NIHB funding agreements since March. The federal program funds health services for Inuit and First Nations Peoples. Although it's Ottawa's program, the ministers say they use territorial dollars to cover what Ottawa won't pay
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The Hill Times
7 months ago
Front | Electoral success a temporary substitute for Israel-Gaza consensus; 'I'm a tariff person' Trump doubles down on levies; Potential Canada-EU defence deal short on details; BOIE pushed discussion of NDP resources to future meetings; and more.
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Coming to you from a new role: I'm now covering health at
@hilltimes.com
. This is one of my first stories. Nunavut and Northwest Territories have been without an agreement for Non-Insured Health Benefits (which helps fund health services for First Nations and Inuit Peoples) since March.
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UHN's Dr.
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gets 2-3 emails per week from U.S. researchers looking for jobs in Canada. He said, "...existing scientists in the United States are rethinking that their future looks like. Thatâs primarily based on the fact that science is under threat" in the U.S.
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A rare non-health post from me but did anyone have "Canadian election makes the
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homepage" on their
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bingo card? Article:
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One of the things that has struck me about this campaign is: where is health? The two most popular party leaders aren't focusing on the subject and the chosen debate themes are a continuation of this. 1/2
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âI really think that [in] this election, weâve sort of pivoted from talking about domestic issues to continental issues or international issues, and health care is a domestic issue ... health care is just a lot harder to keep on the agenda, âsaid Abacus Data's OksanaKishchuk.
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10 months ago
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Thanks to
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for sharing my story. Also, if you'd like some background on why I say the Conservative plan is unclear after its leader, Pierre Poilievre, said he would keep the program, here's my little explainer on LinkedIn âŹď¸
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BREAKING: Kamal Khera is Canada's new minister of health. The position of mental health and addictions minister has been eliminated in what is considered to be a "caretaker" cabinet led by new prime minister, Mark Carney.
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How easy is it to order U.S. goods & not realize it? An example from Cameron Groome, CEO of life sciences company Microbix: âWe may order from a lab products supplier, who is a Canadian affiliate of the U.S. company, and find out later that all that product [is] actually coming in from the States."
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11 months ago
My latest story: Two hundred union members and health care advocates recently met in downtown Ottawa to learn how to communicate a key message: the next federal government must strengthen publicly funded medicare, and that should include dental care and pharmacare.
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After receiving questions for weeks about when a pharmacare deal was coming, Health Minister
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announced the first one today with Manitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara.
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âWhatâs our superpower here in Canada? Well, [it] turns out itâs collaboration, or at least it can be,â said Dr. Paul HĂŠbert. âWe have to find mechanisms to essentially deliver on collaborative strategies, and that involves a lot of you guys because I canât do that alone.â
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Hiya Bluesky, let me introduce myself. I'm a proud Italian-Canadian, a journalist, a bookworm and a policy nerd. I'm in charge of
@hilltimeshealth.bsky.social
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