Columnists
Lois Ross
| What do for-profit long-term care homes such as Revera and land concentration have in common? Both are linked to Canadian pension fund investments, and you and I, albeit unwittingly, are part of it. |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Alberta has tried to spin its modest spending on COVID-19 as being for the good of all. That can be disputed. Anyway, most pandemic funding in Alberta comes from Ottawa. |
Podcast
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour
| The Ontario Health Coalition organized an online rally to protest 3,638 deaths -- and counting -- in long-term care homes. Labour organizations are demanding action. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the federal government to take steps to eventually abolish for-profit long-term care -- and while they're at it, rebuild domestic vaccine production capacity. |
Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| The greatest danger in long-term care may be posed by the emergence of "financialized" enterprises that focus relentlessly on cost-cutting to drive ever-higher profit margins. |
News
Chelsea Nash
| If health-care workers had whistleblower protections, we may have known more about dangerous COVID-19 conditions sooner. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| The COVID-19 crisis has exposed catastrophic weaknesses in Canada's patchwork system for housing and caring for the elderly and disabled. The government needs to act. |
Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| Contrary to business mythology, the private sector doesn't always do things better. Rather, it always does things to make a profit. |
News
Chelsea Nash
| The provincial government is recruiting unemployed workers from retail and other sectors to fill staffing gaps in long-term care. |
News
Chelsea Nash
| Sixty union jobs have been lost in Bowmanville, Ontario, amid a pandemic crisis in long-term care homes. |
Blog
Ed Finn
| "Canada's children are worlds apart from the happiest, healthiest children in rich countries and worlds apart from each other due to wide inequalities," said David Morley, president of UNICEF Canada. |
Blog
Dennis Gruending
| The elderly, long-term care workers, grocery store clerks and migrant farm workers in Canada are among those who have experienced the harshest injustices during the pandemic. |