Canada has a health care investment problem
While Canadians are rightly proud of the principles our health care system is based on, there should be little doubt that those principles do not apply broadly enough or lack adequate resourcing.
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Reigning in drug prices, before pharmacare slips away
Canada has long suffered from a broken pricing regime for prescription drugs. Now is the time for a new regime, one that supports the scientific community, encourages economic development and job creation.
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Community land trusts: enabling Black-led housing solutions
From affordable home-ownership programs and housing for intergenerational households, to culturally informed supportive housing for Black people leaving homelessness and the gentrification antidote that community land trusts can be, People of African descent in Canada must be afforded the opportunities and resources to participate in the decisions that impact our lives and to build the…
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Solidarity after the pandemic: basic income or basic services?
Meeting universal basic needs for participation, health and independence is not a simple consumer choice. Rather, it’s a minimum condition to ensure a vibrant and thriving democratic society.
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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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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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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.
