pharmacare
(Canada, medicine) Public insurance covering all or some of the cost of pharmaceuticals.
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Carney hit NATO’s 2% target 6 years early. It cost something. He protected transfers, pensions, OAS, then showed up to Europe’s table armed. (A requirement) A country that can’t defend itself can’t protect childca…
Except Carney doesn't like European ideas like child care, and pharmacare. Our values based foreign policy is replaced by simple dollar calculations. He's moving Canada farther away from fitting into the EU.
The federal government is planning to axe pharmacare. This Friday, join @canadiansorg.bsky.social for an info session and 📞phone zap: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Carney’s Clanada wants to scrap pharmacare lol
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(Canada, medicine) Public insurance covering all or some of the cost of pharmaceuticals.
As well, the pharmacare and general practitioner studies showed fairly similar distributions by age.
“Carney hit NATO’s 2% target 6 years early. It cost something. He protected transfers, pensions, OAS, then showed up to Europe’s table armed. (A requirement) A country that can’t defend itself can’t protect childcare or pharmacare. Brutal math. Not abandonment. #cdnpoli”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Except Carney doesn't like European ideas like child care, and pharmacare. Our values based foreign policy is replaced by simple dollar calculations. He's moving Canada farther away from fitting into the EU.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The federal government is planning to axe pharmacare. This Friday, join @canadiansorg.bsky.social for an info session and 📞phone zap: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Carney’s Clanada wants to scrap pharmacare lol”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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