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.
Decommodify Care
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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.
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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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Building health: Canada’s opportunity to improve housing affordability
Housing stability, quality, safety, and affordability all affect health outcomes. Adequate financial investments and ambition are required to achieve this.
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Poverty strategy requires more resources and more ambitious goals
We should be very careful to recognize that poverty has many dimensions that can only be understood through multiple indicators, and that political commitments must extend to resources and not just targets.
