Murray Dobbin

Murray Dobbin, who is Vancouver-based, has been a journalist, broadcaster, author and social activist for over thirty five years. A board member and researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, he has written five studies for the centre including an expose of charter schools and ten myths about the Canadian tax system. He has been a columnist for The Financial Post and Winnipeg Free Press, contributes to The Globe and Mail and other Canadian dailies and now writes a column for the Vancouver on-line paper The Tyee, which is reprinted in rabble.ca. Framing the Medicare issue: Fighting to Win The vast majority of Canadians support the idea of public healthcare. Is this an example of our success in framing the issue? Or is it just that Medicare carries itself because it is so obviously important. The record is mixed. We have succeeded in defending publicly funded health care but have allowed the privateers to gain ground on two-tier health care. One problem: not all Medicare activists use the same frames or use them systematically- something the right does well. To win the framing war, we need to be much more strategic and much more thorough.

Appearing at these conference event(s):

• Nov. 16, 2008 - Framing the Medicare issue: Fighting to Win
• Nov. 21, 2010 - What Real Democracy Look Like

Parkland Conferences participated in:

Parkland Fall Conference 2010

Multimedia:

Framing the Medicare issue: Fighting to Win