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Opinion
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Better data will mean better COVID-19 employment recovery
Canada’s workforce needs more insightful data to navigate the transition to the post COVID-19 job market.
Post-pandemic, we need to look at energy efficiency
Investing in energy efficiency post pandemic will deliver robust environmental and economic returns and stimulate job creation in the trades and manufacturing sector while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The new world order is disorder
Canadians are more likely to say the country is heading in the right direction than they were only a few months ago. But asked about the rest of the world, they see more going wrong than going right.
Loved ones in long-term care adrift in jurisdictional limboland
A nationwide, citizen-led petition proposing to protect people in in long-term care homes has now garnered 57,000-plus signatures.
Will we embrace the silver lining of COVID-19?
COVID-19 offers humanity a golden opportunity to restructure our relationship with our planet.
Canada needs to step up for women foreign activists at risk during COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is being used as a cover for the increased persecution of women human-rights defenders and adding to their already-heavy burden.
Provinces and municipalities are failing LGBTQ2+ communities
If we want real change for LGBTQ2+ communities, we need real action from our provincial and municipal governments.
The global pandemic can, and should, transform everything.
The coronavirus crisis boils down to a crisis of inequality and it has exposed the chronic underfunding of public health.
Post-pandemic, it is less about stimulus and more about a strategic sustainable recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic gives us an unprecedented opportunity for a sustainable economic recovery based on smart investments that fully leverage the value of our natural resources.
COVID-19: Chronology of the Long-Term Care Tragedy
There is no excuse for the deaths at long-term care and hospital facilities. It was a preventable tragedy. Even a cursory look online illustrates that we could have minimized the deaths in the two most at-risk segments of our population: seniors with serious illnesses, and the courageous front-line health workers who care for them.
High social value workers must never become invisible again
We have seen the importance of grocery store workers, truck drivers, warehouse workers and personal support workers during the pandemic. Let's not forget them after.
Northwood, a blueprint for how COVID-19 raged through long-term care homes
Government cuts to long-term care and outdated architectural design carry much of the blame for high infection rates at Nova Scotia long-term care home
Post-pandemic the arts will need our support
Arts and cultural industries are Canada’s third-largest employer, but artists are the largest proportion of Canada’s working poor living below the poverty line.
Yes, oil is dead. Just read the writing on the wall.
Economists fear that bailing out Big Oil will worsen our chances of economic recovery post-COVID-19. And no one wants to point out that it will worsen our chances for the survival of human civilization.
