Podcast
Zoe Dodd and Keith McCrady. Image credit: used with permission
From epidemic to pandemic: rethinking health
Victoria Fenner, Resh Budhu | Episode four of the Courage My Friends podcast asks: 'What can Indigenous philosophies teach us about health and wellness?' With guests Zoë Dodd and Keith McCrady.
News
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Corporate landlords favoured by government are making housing unaffordable
Karl Nerenberg | For all its good intentions, very little this government is doing addresses the looming housing crisis for millions of poor, young and otherwise marginalized Canadians.
Blog
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Investing in a feminist economic recovery
Maya Bhullar | Feminist recovery plan author Anjum Sultana discusses what a feminist recovery must look like to help women in Canada.
Blog
A banner that says "Housing for All" is carried at the beginning of a housing rally in Toronto. Image credit: Cathy Crowe
Is public health malpractice a crime against humanity?
Cathy Crowe | The term "social murder" has been aptly used to describe what happened in long-term care in this pandemic. Today's third wave exposes public health neglect for homeless people.
Blog
Wooden tiny shelter built by Khaleel Seivwright. A sign on the house says "Someone lives here, do not remove." Image credit: Jeff Bierk
Tiny homes and tiny shelters are pop-up responses to government failures
Cathy Crowe | A skilled carpenter in Toronto has simply started building shelters for people trying to survive the housing crisis, shelter shortage and COVID-19 pandemic.
News
Vancouver renters picket a building. Image: contributed photo
A people's mandate letter to the B.C. NDP's next housing minister
Mazdak Gharibnavaz | During the last three and a half years, the B.C. NDP had the opportunity to show leadership on the bold, systemic changes that renters needed. Instead, the opposite has happened.
Columnists
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The right to know? Balancing health risks and privacy rights for landlords during COVID-19
Claudia Pedrero, Pro Bono | What is a landlord's responsibility when a tenant in a multi-residential building tests positive for COVID-19?
Columnists
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It's time to repurpose dying retail spaces for community housing
Duncan Cameron | The for-profit rental market does not work for low-income people. It is past time for the federal government to once again champion affordable housing as it did after the Second World War.
Blog
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Life as a tenant during the COVID-19 crisis
Doreen Nicoll | The Ontario government promises there will be no new evictions during the pandemic, but landlords can still make life even more uncertain and uncomfortable as tenants try to shelter in place.
Columnists
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Housing in the time of COVID-19
Safia Lakhani, Pro Bono | As we attempt to collectively navigate the "new normal," it is critical that adequate measures be taken to ensure access to adequate housing.
Columnists
Moms 4 Housing activists gather to protest real estate speculators. Image: Moms 4 Housing/Twitter
Housing activists continue Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for justice
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Moms 4 Housing, a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, are fighting against real estate speculators and profiteers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Podcast
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Where do kids who have kids live?
Victoria Fenner | Indigenous researcher Melissa Tremblay talks about her award-winning research to develop a supportive housing model for teen parents and their children.