Arthritis Society Canada
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Adopt recommendations to implement electronic arthritis triage tool and care pathway focused on population-based approaches to improving appropriate and early diagnosis and treatment for people living with arthritis that can improve wait for joint replacement surgeries.
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly
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Health, Hospitals
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Advocacy to treat medical cannabis as medicine: remove the tax and enable its distribution through pharmacy with guidance from a health professional.
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Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
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Cannabis, Health, Taxation and Finance
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Policy recommendations related to access to arthritis treatments - medications and devices.
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Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly, Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Health
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Seeking amendments to the Lobbyist Transparency Act to: change requirement for monthly reported financials to every six months, report of funding received in BC only, adjust amount of detail required in funding reports, remove requirement to report on social media posts as they are already public. The BC Lobbyist Registry as it is requires more resources and capacity than a non-profit/charitable organization can maintain compared to other reporting registries.
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Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly
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Non-Profit Organization
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