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Time to end profit-making in seniors’ care
The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on serious problems in Canada’s seniors’ care system, as nursing homes quickly became the epicenters of the outbreak.…
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Extend tax filing deadline to ensure low income households receive benefits
With the ongoing COVID-19 state of emergency, the federal government should waive the requirement that low-income individuals complete their 2019 tax forms by June 1st to…
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BC should transition to 100% non-profit and public delivery of seniors care post-crisis: researchers
READ THE REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER — The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on serious problems in Canada’s seniors care system and after the crisis…
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Who’s left out? COVID-19 & psychiatric detainees
For weeks, we’ve all been doing our best to follow guidelines about staying home and physical distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But who…
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Can you get reinfected from COVID-19?
I recently heard someone exclaim over a Zoom hang with friends: “People are getting reinfected in South Korea!!!”
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Digital equity and community solidarity during and after COVID-19
As many have noted, COVID-19 is an efficient illuminator of our society’s strengths and weaknesses; its progress accelerates in spaces of inequality and injustice. There…
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Work Life: Austerity, the economy and COVID-19…Manitoba Government creating, not solving problems
First published CBC online April 21, 2020 COVID-19 has upended communities and economies across the globe. Canadian political leaders have taken unprecedented steps to slow…
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How do we eat the COVID-19 mental health elephant? One bite at a time.
COVID-19 is a traumatic event. Make no mistake, we have not been here before.
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Ontario renters can’t wait: the province must step up
The federal government has announced $27 billion in measures intended to mitigate the economic hardship brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Another blog examines them in detail. Overall, the…
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COVID-19 myths topping the charts this week
Rather than being transmitted from aerosol droplets, misinformation travels quickly from social media, to group chats, to Zoom meetings, right to the pulpit from which…
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The coronavirus crisis: Wake-up call for an economic paradigm shift¹
This article was originally posted on National Newswatch
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The hidden and not-so-hidden casualty of COVID-19
Since the province has sensibly decided that “professional and social services that support the legal and justice system” are part of the essential services during…
