News January 3
Image: Albert Banerjee
Taking profits out of long-term care: a conversation with Albert Banerjee
Zaid Noorsumar | The neoliberalization of Ontario's long-term care system has resulted in all the contradictions and inefficiencies associated with for-profit health care delivery.
Blog January 3
Linda Silas. Image: David Climenhaga
Linda Silas announces bid to lead Canadian Labour Congress
David J. Climenhaga | The New Brunswick nurse and president of Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions is best known outside labour as a high-profile supporter for a national pharmacare program.
Columnists January 2
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The year ahead for digital rights in Canada
Rodrigo Samayoa, Digital Freedom Update | As we start a new year, let's look back at some of the highlights from 2019 and what is ahead for our digital rights.
Columnists January 2
Stacey Abrams speaks at TEDWomen 2018. Image: Marla Aufmuth/TED/Flickr
The struggle to vote in the U.S.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Democracy is a constant struggle. From the suffragettes to today's voting rights advocates, securing the right to vote should be a common pursuit of us all.
Blog December 31
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Political predictions for Alberta in 2020
David J. Climenhaga | The United Conservative Party's austerity program will push Alberta into recession. The UCP, naturally, will blame the NDP and Justin Trudeau.
Blog December 31
Make a resolution to strengthen Canadian independent media in 2020
Kim Elliott | Independent media is not inevitable. It takes your help. It takes you making a new year's resolution to support media democracy.
Blog December 28
A homeless person sleeps next to Santa's sleigh on a main street in Toronto. Image: Cathy Crowe
Canada's brutal decade of homelessness
Cathy Crowe | Cities across the country are evicting people from outdoor tent encampments. Without a national housing program or municipal support for shelters, the homelessness crisis has become an emergency.
Blog December 27
Oil pump jacks in Alberta. Image: Jeff Wallace/Flickr
Alberta's energy 'war room' is spreading disinformation
David J. Climenhaga | The Canadian Energy Centre is churning out thinly veiled propaganda while staffers masquerade as reporters, endangering the integrity of an already struggling media ecosystem.
News December 24
The Ontario Health Coalition released the report "Caring in Crisis: Ontario's Long-Term Care PSW Shortage,", developed in partnership with UNIFOR in a press conference at the Ontario legislature. Image: Ontario Health Coalition/Facebook
Personal support worker shortage plaguing Ontario nursing homes
Zaid Noorsumar | Workers are leaving the industry due to demanding working conditions, poor compensation, high rates of injury and abuse, and lack of full-time work.
Blog December 21
Left image: Progress Software Corp. logo. Right image: The CEC's first logo.
Annals of the energy war room: Square-pipeline logo to be dumped like a bad first date
David J. Climenhaga | It turns out the square-pipeline symbol that was supposedly rustled up just for the Canadian Energy Centre was already in use as the corporate logo of a software developer based in Massachusetts.
Blog December 21
The bad faith 'debate' about trans human rights
Mercedes Allen | The "gender critical debate" is designed to disallow any conclusion that trans people exist, let alone that they should have rights or be accommodated in society in any way.
Blog December 21
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Rebranded 'war room' aims for 'measured tone,' doesn't quite succeed
David J. Climenhaga | What the "war room" came up with in response to a tart column in the Medicine Hat News was more akin to a boring press release, as staffers of the newspaper were soon gleefully tweeting.