Five tests to make sure bailouts benefit people, not corporations
Canada’s corporate bailouts need to cut out tax dodgers and profiteers, and show long-term commitments are attached to the money.
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Filipino health care workers during COVID-19 and the importance of race-based analysis
Without the care work provided by Filipino migrant care workers, many countries would have a difficult time coping with high health care demands, particularly during a pandemic.
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La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés, les droits socio-économiques et la pandémie de la COVID-19
La pandémie a fait ressortir comment les décisions économiques des différents paliers de gouvernement peuvent se répercuter sur la vie et la sécurité des Canadiens.
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, socioeconomic rights and the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic has underscored the extent to which economic decisions made by the various levels of government have an impact on the lives and safety of Canadians.
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Completing the promise of Medicare
As the federal government thinks about how to fill the holes in our social safety net that the pandemic has revealed, the creation of universal Pharmacare should be top of the priority list.
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One lesson from the pandemic: Canada needs to rebuild manufacturing
Canadian governments will have to maximize industrial job creation here in Canada, and they will have to perhaps stand strong in the face of WTO or European protests in order to do so.
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COVID-19 is not the great leveller, it’s the great revealer
Now that we are collectively facing a health risk that is spreading across space, we’ve been given the opportunity for empathy with many people who individually confront risks that repeat over and over again during the course of their lives.
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COVID-19 Emergency Benefits: Who’s included, who’s left out and the role of provinces
Policy makers accustomed to making sure the design of a program only reaches their intended group need to adjust their thinking caps and cast a broader net.
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Financing the war against COVID-19
There should be no fiscal restraints on the needed response to the pandemic crisis, and we need to also ensure that we avoid another round of austerity when the economy recovers.
