Jan 17, 2020
How the hunt for profits has shaped Ontario's home care system
Zaid Noorsumar
Privatization has negatively affected both workers and patients. The work is demanding, unstable and low-paying, and staff turnover is high.
Food & Health
Jan 3, 2020
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.
Dec 24, 2019
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.
Dec 20, 2019
Legal cannabis enters into debate about where Canadians can smoke
For the past 60 years, Canada has progressively shrunk the spaces where people can smoke -- including private spaces. The legalization of cannabis is unlikely to reverse that trend.
Dec 17, 2019
Defending public health care in Alberta
Talking Radical Radio
Public health care is threatened in all provinces, and especially in Alberta. Sandra Azocar talks about the work of Friends of Medicare to defend public health care in Alberta.
Dec 11, 2019
Reflections on the year in agriculture -- and forecasts for 2020
As we come to the close of 2019, it's important to reflect on some of the major issues affecting agriculture and food production. There have been promising stories and some that are worrisome.
Dec 3, 2019
What's behind the United Conservative Party's emerging fury at nurses?
David J. Climenhaga
The UCP's public disparagement of nurses is a troubling development, which shows just how cocksure the party is right now as it sets about dismantling public health care.
Dec 3, 2019
Nurses and the push for harm reduction
Talking Radical Radio
Using drugs safely -- Bryce Koch is a registered nurse in Winnipeg and he talks about the work of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association and Project Safe Audience.
Dec 2, 2019
The collapse of social welfarism is lethal
Raluca Bejan
The social determinants of health are the strongest predictors of individual health and mortality. With the collapse of social welfarism, matters of life and death have been left to the market.
Dec 1, 2019
With 5,000 job cuts planned, perpetual chaos returns to Alberta's health system
David Climenhaga
Widespread privatization, shuttered health care facilities, and service cuts are all in Kenney's cards as Alberta's government breaks earlier promises on health care.
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