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.
Opinion
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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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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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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.
