Category: Canadian Dimension

Changing the narrative around drug use is the first step in affecting real policy change

That it took more than a year into a once-in-a-generation public health crisis for an NDP government to introduce such a basic provision as provincial sick pay is beyond disappointing. … Read More

Why should we make our peace with the neoliberal reordering of the workforce in the form of an employers’ subsidy?

Two China observers express concerns about the criticism heaped on former judge and Vancouver city councillor Bill Yee

Police must be held accountable for misconduct captured on body cameras—but the public can’t be expected to subsidize it

The question of who pays for the crisis will not be settled by enlightened policies from on high but through the class struggle

Health advocates blast Microsoft billionaire for saying patent protections on life-saving vaccines must remain

The PM must do what is best for the country and save lives, even if it comes at the expense of maintaining power

The Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia from 1613 until 1917, managed a pandemic in the late-18th century more effectively than the Doug Ford government in Ontario. Image from Wikimedia Commons. … Read More

Canada’s decision to block the waiving of vaccine patents is not only immoral and unjust—it is also completely illogical

The only fix for ensuring quality and accountable care is the political will to deprive profiteers of public funding