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  • Beyond Recovery

    Pat Armstrong can teach us about the road ahead

    Looking at the career of one of Canada’s leading feminist political economists

    Looking at the career of one of Canada’s leading feminist political economists

  • Black and white canadian money as background. Cut out of Saskatchewan map with a stethoscope on top of map.

    Patients or profits first?

    Saskatchewan’s Patient First health plan still leaves the door open to for-profit services

  • Interview: Ann Collins on the challenges and opportunities for uniting Indigenous and settler struggles

    From August 21 to 24, thousands of participants from social movements across the country converged in Ottawa for the Peoples’ Social Forum. Among its many goals, the forum aimed to bridge Canadian, Quebec and Indigenous struggles, conversations and ideas for how to transform Canada. The CCPA took part in three…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Private Long Term Care & Home Care Zombies

    UBC economist Robert Evans calls user fees in health care zombies, a policy option that keeps surfacing despite being killed over and over again by the evidence.   During Manitoba’s recent provincial election Brian Pallister invoked zombies anew by saying that he would not rule out the introduction of private sector…

  • Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care

    Download 851.23 KB 128 pages “Our research indicates that strategies intended to support choices for long-term care residents must be based on the understanding that care is a relationship involving residents, their families and workers. It also means understanding that appropriate conditions of work are central to care as a relationship that allows residents…

  • Long-term Care Problems

    Both residents and care providers denied fair treatment More, better-paid staff key to improved long-term care Long-term care in Canada fails to treat either residents or care providers with dignity and respect. The single most important factor in this failure is the inadequate staffing levels. There are simply not enough…

  • Soft rock and a soft touch

    Trove of FOI documents sheds new light on lax regulation of troubled Site C dam It was the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting for a box of Timbits and a Double-Double at the Tim Hortons’ drive thru.  In the space of just hours on a single day in June 2020, the…

  • Physical Environments for Long-term Care

    Ideas Worth Sharing Download 2.02 MB 114 pages This book provides concrete examples of promising practices for physical environments in long-term residential care: everything from the location of a nursing home and the structure of gardens to the floor coverings, chair arms, and spaces for memorials. Physical environments are about…

  • Promising Practices in Long Term Care

    Ideas Worth Sharing Download 2.02 MB 86 pages This book reports on the findings of an international team of 26 researchers and more than 50 graduate students who went to six countries in a search for promising practices in long term residential care for the elderly. It presents concrete examples…

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    The path to prosperity set out in budget 2025 leaves millions behind

    The millions struggling to pay their rent and put food on the table were looking for relief in budget 2025—and they were disappointed.

  • They Deserve Better

    The long-term care experience in Canada and Scandanavia “They Deserve Better.” These words of one worker capture the essential message we heard in researching this book, words that can apply equally to residents and to those who are employed in long-term residential care. Long-term residential care has long been a…

  • February 2006: Comparing Public and Private Health Care

    Canada’s public health care system has 10 clear advantages Proponents of turning more of Canada’s public Medicare system over to private care providers could only justify such privatization if they could convince Canadians that doing so would improve the quality, accessibility, and affordability of health care in Canada. The onus…