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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.
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.
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.
Government cuts to long-term care and outdated architectural design carry much of the blame for high infection rates at Nova Scotia long-term care home
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.
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.
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.
