
Canadian Media Is Erasing Essential Workers
Hospitalizations have skyrocketed, but the media’s use of the phrase “essential workers” or “frontline workers” has plummeted.
Hospitalizations have skyrocketed, but the media’s use of the phrase “essential workers” or “frontline workers” has plummeted.
“They’re short-staffed in dispatch. That’s putting incredible psychological and occupational injuries on our paramedics.”
Landlords in B.C. can hike rents by three per cent to cover repair costs, in addition to a 1.5 per cent annual increase.
The current overload of hospitals has more to do with neoliberal public policies than selfish anti-vaxxers.
“This is really a continuation of the outcome of a long-term process of ever-lower corporate tax rates."
Every year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCP) releases a report tracking CEO compensation in Canada.
“The healthcare system was already full of way too many disability barriers impeding access to service before COVID started, and the government's response to COVID is making it worse in several ways.”
"Where I think it sets a precedent is you're now putting an annual tax or annual levy on people based on their on their health status, or on their risk of developing disease."
They’re the only way the North’s immiseration can be ended, alternatives to extractive industry developed and climate change prepared for.