Correcting the Record on Trans Deaths with Dylana Thompson
There is a glaring lack of systemic data collection on trans deaths in Canada. It’s time that policymakers correct the course.
Decommodify Care
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The Continuing Battle for Universal Pharmacare with Marc-André Gagnon
Bill C-64 promises to bring pharmacare to Canadians, but gaps within the legislation may prevent it from fulfilling true universal pharmacare for all.
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Pharmacare and Access to Medicines in Canada: Is Bill C-64 a Step in the Right Direction?
After years of change and advancement in healthcare for Canadian citizens, Bill C-64 still might fall short of adequately and fairly providing pharmacare in Canada.
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Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost
Private nursing agencies are but a band-aid solution to health care staffing shortages, while costs balloon for our public health care systems.
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The Alt-Right’s Co-Optation of Wellness Subculture at the Intersection of Health, Purity, and Ideology
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
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Private Equity and Health Care: Should Canadians be concerned?
An increasing number of health-care workers, observers and critics worry that the growing financialization of health care is inserting corporate values into treatment, raising questions about the corporate practice of medicine.
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Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan
‘Care Activism’ challenges the stereotype of a downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational imagined community of care workers and their families.
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Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies
NDP members voted to withdraw support for the Liberal Confidence and Supply Agreement in Parliament if Pharmacare is not implemented. After the vote, what’s next?
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Everyday Care Activism
Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists go beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures.
