Implementing a Disability Justice Framework: an interview with Sarah Jama
Our mission is to build a just and accessible Ontario — where people with disabilities have personal and political agency.
Decommodify Care
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Challenging the economic dogma of a “natural” unemployment rate
While most economists accept that there is some trade-off between unemployment and inflation, no one really knows how low unemployment can fall before wages begin to rise at a faster pace.
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A national child care system because “it’s 2015”
In 2015, it’s dreadfully evident that our patchwork, marketized child care situation fails just about everyone and that young Canadian families live in one of the few wealthy countries that fails to support them well.
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The TPP: a secret deal that binds the hands that heal
The growing call for universal drug coverage stems from the realization that Canadians should be able to take medications as prescribed, regardless of their financial situation.
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Canada’s childcare debate through Finnish eyes
In Finland, universal access to childcare was originally introduced to support women’s labor market participation. However, today the benefits seem to be far wider.
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The fight for universal child care
It could be national project, much like Medicare, that we can all be proud of contributing to and benefitting from. With the acknowledgement that building a program like that will take sustained dedication and time.
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Building a national child care program
Canada lags way behind most of its peer countries on child care. There is no doubt that in the absence of a modern approach to child care provisions, families across Canada experience hardship and stress.
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The economics (and ethics) of affordable child care
Policies that make good quality child care more affordable for families can increase women’s employment opportunities and change the way that the market rewards women’s work.
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This election, Canada must tackle disability rights reform
If there is to be robust and coordinated measures to substantially reduce the exclusion and poverty in which so many Canadian with disabilities live, these ideas require wide discussion, and this election campaign is a democratically appropriate and politically hopeful occasion to do so.
