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  • Long-term care reform: No time to waste

    No more delays, not more excuses. It’s time to act.

    No more delays, not more excuses. It’s time to act.

  • What federal leadership on long-term care standards should look like

    As the COVID-19 pandemic second wave once again ravages long-term care homes in Canada, we must reckon with the obvious: it is time to set a higher standard for this care. The federal government promised as much in its throne speech, and we have taken this as an invitation to…

  • If not now, when? The throne speech and long term care

      Wednesday’s throne speech offered hints of promising changes to long term care policies—something COVID-19 has exposed as urgently needed. Specifically, the federal government promises “to work with provinces and territories to set new, national standards for long term care.”  There has been growing public pressure for federal leadership to…

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  • Negotiating Tensions in Long-Term Residential Care

    Ideas Worth Sharing Download 1.54 MB 136 pages This book is about the tensions in long-term residential care. By tensions, we mean ideas, approaches, practices, programs, interests and communities that have conflicting demands and/or consequences. There is often, for example, a tension between the need to give priority to the increasingly complex medical needs…

  • A Higher Standard

    Setting federal standards in long-term care and continuing care Download 147.73 KB 10 pages The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of federal government leadership in health care. The pandemic’s impact has been particularly dramatic in long-term care homes, exposing a fragmented and under-resourced system that is heavily reliant on for-profit delivery.…

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    Division des places à 10 $ par jour : les frais de garde d’enfants au Canada en 2026

    Après cinq ans d’existence du programme fédéral, les parents paient moins. Cependant, la plupart des familles déboursent encore plus de 10 $ par jour

  • 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

  • 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…

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    Patients or profits first?

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