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Universities shouldn’t abandon online learning after the pandemic
Monday, December 28th, 2020
The immediate value in terms of containing disease spread is obvious, but in normal times, the potential benefits can be immense also. Students can have more flexibility over how and where they learn. Online learning can reduce or eliminate the need to travel or live close to campus, saving students time and money. For universities, it offers the prospects of lower operational and maintenance costs, allowing them to invest more in high-value interactions that tend to occur in more intimate groups.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, participation
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NDP and Greens Push Trudeau to Answer Vancouver’s Call to Decriminalize Drugs
Monday, December 28th, 2020
The MPs want Hajdu to use her authority under Section 56 of the act, which grants the health minister the power to issue an exemption from any part of the legislation “for a medical or scientific purpose or is otherwise in the public interest.” … to take the supply “out of the hands of criminals and remove the stigmatization, and ensure that people get access to safe, regulated, properly packaged products. And we need to substantially beef up our prevention, education and, most importantly, treatment options for substance users.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical
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Our priorities must be with our most vulnerable
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
A “colour-blind approach” to the pandemic will not suffice, especially when reports show racialized minorities suffered from higher poverty rates prior to 2020, and now experience even stronger challenges to making ends meet… [Yet] the Ontario COVID-specific contingency funds have increased to $12 billion… [and] “the Province may end the fiscal year with outstanding balances… [using remaining funds to] “reduce both the budget deficit and Ontario’s net debt.”
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Want to tackle COVID-19 in low-income neighbourhoods? Let’s start with paid sick leave
Saturday, December 12th, 2020
… taking a day here to get tested or a couple days there to self-isolate eats up half the two-week entitlement… Plus, the benefit does not always offer enough money to make up for lost wages… But tweaks won’t do much about the power relationship between boss and employee. That fix can only come through provincial governments enshrining stronger worker protections and employer-paid sick leave into law…
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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With a little help for his friends, Ford steals Christmas
Saturday, December 12th, 2020
The owners and directors of long-term-care (LTC) home corporations (including Mike Harris) are off the hook for liability for their well-documented shoddy operations during COVID-19. Ford’s friend and funder Charles McVety will, somewhat magically, likely get his Christian College turned into a university. His developer buddies will like Ford’s new rules for Conservation Authorities whose authority is now much diminished… Every one of these treats was snuck into omnibus bills designed to deal with the pandemic.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Premiers call dibs on federal money before it’s all spent
Friday, December 11th, 2020
Health care is provincial jurisdiction. They can levy taxes like Ottawa. If they need more money, they could raise taxes… A lot of what Ottawa does is sending money to people or provinces. But health care? … Mr. Trudeau doesn’t want to just send cheques. He wants to say he paid for something new and specific that Canadians want. He told the premiers that Ottawa might fund better long-term care, or pharmacare.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, tax
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Basic income hailed as key in kickstarting the economy in a post-pandemic Canada
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
A universal basic income would not only lift more than 3.2 million Canadians out of poverty, it would also create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, grow the economy by tens of billions of dollars and eventually pay for itself with increased tax revenues… the biggest message coming out of this (report) is that a basic income program can be designed in a sustainable way,” said Paul Smetanin, CANCEA president and one of the report’s authors. “It can be thought of as an investment as opposed to a cost.”
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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What if we were as serious about ending violence as ending the pandemic?
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
At the beginning of the lockdowns, women found it difficult to flee their abusers; as lockdowns eased and they returned to shelters, workers noticed an escalation in the severity of violence they were reporting – more broken bones, more strangulation, more sexual violence… If this year has taught us anything, it’s our ability to work collectively to end a public health crisis. But we have to open our eyes first.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, women
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Virtual Healthcare Revolution Here To Stay
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
… virtual care… has been critical throughout the pandemic. During June 2020 virtual care represented over 70 percent of ambulatory care across the country. That is a massive increase from just five months before”… For patients, face-to-face appointments with healthcare providers have traditionally come with certain costs, such as lost income from time off work, childcare and transportation costs… The authors propose that care redesign starts with asking three simple questions…
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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We need a homegrown solution for making enough vaccines for every Canadian
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
… pandemic preparedness… includes, at its core, an arms-length national vaccine manufacturing facility that, first and foremost, has the capacity to produce enough vaccines for every Canadian… The facility could be made available to the private sector to make large batches at cost during normal times and commandeered by the federal government for large-scale vaccine deployment during a pandemic… It would be a partnership between biopharmaceutical companies, academia and the federal government.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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