BC’s swift response to long-term care crisis sets the bar for other provinces
Today, four out of five Canadians who have died from COVID-19 in Canada are linked to long-term care homes. The first death from COVID-19 in Canada was an elderly resident...
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.
Filipino Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 and the Importance of Race-Based Analysis
Filipino Workers on the Frontlines During COVID19 Globally and in Canada Warlito Valdez. Amor Padilla Gatinao. Daisy Dorinilla. Debbie Accad. Leilani Medel. Christine Mandegarian. These are just a few of...
Economy and climate need more than stimulus after COVID-19
Media reports say climate change mitigation will play a prominent role in the COVID-19 economic recovery, with the federal government planning to invest in the environment as part of its...
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, socioeconomic rights and the COVID-19 pandemic
This blogpost was originally written in French, and has been translated to English below. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many restrictions have been placed on fundamental rights and...
Lift the Floor: Provincial Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis
The Institute’s first convening in our new digital series explored how provinces have a critical role to play to meet the needs of people and communities during the pandemic and...
Completing the promise of Medicare
In the early 1960’s, a CCF government (the CCF was the precursor to the NDP) in Saskatchewan successfully lit the path towards what we now know nationally as Medicare, a...
One Lesson from the Pandemic: Canada Needs to Rebuild Manufacturing
One of the by-products of the global COVID 19 pandemic is that all of a sudden people are paying attention to where things are actually manufactured. On Monday morning April...
COVID-19 is not the great leveller, it’s the great revealer
In a medical sense, COVID-19, as highly contagious as it is, can be thought of as the great leveller. No one has immunity, and we face the health risk of...
Educating Ontario Students During Covid-19
EMERGENCY REMOTE LEARNING IN ONTARIO On March 31st, Phase 2 of Ontario’s “Learn at Home” program was announced in response to COVID-19 school closures. The announcement has resulted in inconsistency...
