Explainer: implementing paid sick days and paid sick leave
Across Canada, paid sick days have largely been left to the responsibility of the employer and/or union collective agreements to provide.
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Steps must be taken to nationalize pharmaceutical production in Canada
It’s time we stopped being prisoners of foolish economic orthodoxies. A publicly-owned pharmaceutical company always made sense – and does so now more than ever.
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COVID-19, Canadians with disabilities and the need for major reforms
As we have learned during this pandemic with long term care facilities, there is a central role by provincial and territorial governments in ensuring the availability of affordable, quality and accessible services and supports for people with disabilities in their everyday lives.
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Policy options for defunding the police & creating alternative services of safety and support
This moment calls for us to seriously consider what sort of policy changes are necessary to accomplish our goal of divesting from this anti-Black institution, and reinvesting in crucial social services.
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A COVID-19 recovery plan requires keeping people housed
Building affordable housing should be part and parcel of the core infrastructure needed to make a livable city, just like schools, transportation and hospitals.
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Time for feds and province to step up on public transit
COVID-19 might finally provide the policy window to end decades of underfunding that have resulted in a decaying and inequitable system.
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Corporate bailouts or a long-term post-COVID strategy?
Canada needs to look beyond the immediate crisis to identify the key building blocks of a new economy on a sector by sector basis.
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BC’s swift response to long-term care crisis sets the bar for other provinces
It took a coronavirus pandemic for Canadians to see the depth of the flaws in long-term care.
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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.
