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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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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.

  • Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites

    For years, Manitoba’s network of community organizations and public health and harm reduction experts have made the case for the introduction of supervised consumption sites in Manitoba. There are evidence-based models of care that will work for Manitoba. In February of 2022, the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network issued a comprehensive…

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    Elbows Up Economic Summit

    Building a sovereign, sustainable, value-added economy

    Donald Trump’s trade war and other attacks on Canadian sovereignty have exposed the vulnerabilities of Canada’s economy, 35 years after our first free trade deal with the U.S. The Elbows Up Economic Summit in Ottawa on September 2025 convened a discussion with 40 progressive economists and policy experts on how…

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    Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away?

    BC Hydro knew 30 years before it started building the Site C dam that its chosen location for the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history had big problems.  In fact, by the 1980s, BC Hydro had done tests showing that the ground at Site C had…

  • Federal refugee healthcare cuts are going to be costly

    Cutting healthcare for vulnerable asylum seekers signals a dangerous shift towards anti-migrant policy—and will lower the standard of healthcare for all

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    A Big Fracking Mess: As Site C dam construction bogs down in geotechnical problems, thousands of earthquakes triggered by fracking operations occur nearby

    Earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations near BC Hydro’s troubled Site C dam construction project are far greater in number than previously thought, raising troubling questions about whether they are adding to the already formidable geotechnical challenges at the site. Not only are more earthquakes occurring in proximity…