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COVID-19 and flooding: How Kashechewan is prepping for two natural disasters
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
For 15 years, governments have promised to move Kashechewan. The now-yearly evacuations, which have gone on for the better part of 17 years, have taken a toll on the people who live there… The agreement they had made with the federal government in 2005 was scrapped after the Harper government came into power. “They shelved the old agreement and didn’t get it going,” says Friday. In 2019, Friday signed a new agreement with Ottawa.
Tags: budget, Health, housing, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Close your eyes and imagine what a best-in-class LTC system looks like… then build it
Saturday, April 25th, 2020
It has fewer and larger LTC facilities. We have too many now… a proper ratio of personal support workers (PSWs) to residents, as with regulated daycare centres… Each resident of the new LTC system has his or her own room, with a personal washroom… PSWs are prohibited from working in multiple locations. That widespread practice, rooted in PSWs’ low pay, is believed to have caused much of the COVID-19 spread.
Tags: Health, housing, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Pandemic has exposed the rifts in our social fabric
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
The pandemic will end, but structural inequities – ones that ensure that those who are most well off are the best protected – will not, unless we insist on correcting a long-standing pattern of social wrongs. If anything good is to come out of a pandemic that shook the world, surely it must be our collective will to seize this opportunity and take stock so that we can move towards a more just society.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s senior-care crisis has been long in the works
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
As a country, we need to rethink how we approach long-term care from top to bottom. And we don’t have a lot of time to do it. A 2017 Conference Board study estimated that, to meet demand, Canada needs to nearly double the number of long-term care beds available to about 450,000 by 2035. We can’t afford to do it on the cheap.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, Health, housing, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Open Letter urges Ontario to boost support for people on social assistance
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
A coalition of more than 130 health care workers, community agencies and Ontarians living in poverty is urging Queen’s Park to increase benefits immediately to almost one million residents on social assistance struggling to survive during the COVID-19 crisis… the coalition says in an open letter to Children, Community and Social Services Minister Todd Smith… “If we are to weather this storm together, we must ensure that nobody in Ontario is left behind”
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, participation, poverty
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For the homeless, the coronavirus crisis is untenable – but so is the social-distancing response
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
With the overcrowding of shelters and closings of many important services during this time, it is obvious that many of the public-health measures made to protect people during the pandemic have neglected the needs of the homeless… We need a moratorium on evictions… more outreach support… to rapidly house people – or maintain their housing… Addiction medicines must be made available to people for the full length of their quarantine…
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Adopting a U.S. plan for easing hallway medicine
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
There is no hallway medicine in America in part because of skilled nursing facilities (SNF’s), which are designed to rehabilitate frail seniors after an acute hospital stay and reduce the need for ALC designation. SNF’s employ nurses, support workers, physios and physio assistants to provide care that emphasizes reconditioning weakened seniors after their acute hospital stays… This solution would be more cost effective than maintaining deconditioned patients in acute hospitals or waiting to build long-term care beds.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing
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Canada’s poverty rate declines, but strides less apparent for single people
Monday, February 24th, 2020
Canada’s poverty rate declined to a new low in 2018 as the number of low-income people has fallen by more than one million over a three-year period… The percentage of Canadians in poverty was 8.7 per cent, down from 9.5 per cent in 2017 and the lowest under the current formula, which is soon to be replaced… Statscan pointed to gains in market income – that is, income from employment, private pensions and investments – with making an impact… a government focus on child benefits – both at the federal and provincial levels – has also helped
Tags: budget, economy, housing, ideology, participation, poverty
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Ontarians need a bolder new approach to home care
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
… here are four simple yet transformative ways to make it work better for patients, families, and those providing care: Return nurses to home care… Allow direct referrals… Focus on patient needs, not patient time… Create a “long-term care at home” option… It means changing the way our organizations are paid… and holding providers accountable for costs as well as results for those receiving care.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, mental Health, standard of living
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Assessing Ottawa’s New Health Mandate
Friday, January 10th, 2020
… why not identify and put your emphasis on issues squarely in the federal jurisdiction, such as the socio-economic determinants of health? Addressing poverty and other deleterious conditions in certain populations would be the greatest contribution your government could make to better health of Canadians.
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