A COVID-19 recovery plan requires keeping people housed
Building affordable housing should be part and parcel of the core infrastructure needed to make a livable city, just like schools, transportation and hospitals.
COVID-19 Pandemic
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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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Five tests to make sure bailouts benefit people, not corporations
Canada’s corporate bailouts need to cut out tax dodgers and profiteers, and show long-term commitments are attached to the money.
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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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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.
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One lesson from the pandemic: Canada needs to rebuild manufacturing
Canadian governments will have to maximize industrial job creation here in Canada, and they will have to perhaps stand strong in the face of WTO or European protests in order to do so.
