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.
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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Government cuts to long-term care and outdated architectural design carry much of the blame for high infection rates at Nova Scotia long-term care home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.
Physician mothers on the front lines of a crisis
Doctor and mom: this potent combination makes these women some of the most effective leaders in our fight against both the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
Pipeline projects, the pandemic and the question journalists fail to ask
Are pipeline megaprojects worth adding public-health risks to their indisputable environmental costs?
Shock-and-awe pandemics
The pandemic climate is prime for the implementation of disaster-capitalism policies.
Like health care, housing is a right
The United States’ uniquely bad private health-insurance system will ensure the COVID-19 crisis will ravage American society.
Alberta insults taxpayers, shreds polluter pays and shorts workers
Rural municipalities have been suffering crisis-level budget shortfalls for years already, as zombie companies wage an escalating property tax strike forcing counties to cut hundreds of millions in services or raise taxes on everyone else.
