Ontario’s “Ring of Fire” is a disputed deposit of minerals within Treaty 9 territory of Northern Ontario. Prior to the escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic, on Feb. 11, 2020,...
L’avocate d’origine syrienne Reem Al-Ksiri vit aujourd’hui à Vienne, en Autriche. Comme des millions de ses compatriotes, elle s’est vue forcée de quitter son pays en raison de la...
Long-term care is something every Canadian eventually needs to reckon with – whether it is as we put plans in place for our elder years or when we look...
The Government of Ontario is developing its next five-year Poverty Reduction Strategy. According to 2019 estimates, 1.57 million people in Ontario live in poverty, including 382,000 children. Child poverty...
There has been much speculation that we are at the “end of the office,” to quote a Financial Times article. This has been the speculation in light of the...
A common thread that connects all Canadians these days is worry. We worry about our senior relatives, children home from school struggling with online lessons, sky-rocketing unemployment, the safety...
In virtually all western countries, COVID-19 has spread rapidly in long-term care (LTC), and where it has taken hold, mortality has been approximately 25 to 30 percent of all...
(This article has been translated from French.) In Quebec, as in other parts of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the layoff of thousands of workers for...
Most Canadian taxpayers do not realize that charitable foundations have accumulated over $80 billion in assets, using taxpayers’ money via charitable tax credits. Once people are informed, they overwhelmingly...
The low-paid and precarious positions in industries that are considered essential during the COVID-19 pandemic (sanitation, health care, and those in the food supply chain) are filled with women,...
À une certaine époque, avoir un accès Internet était un luxe, un « plus », mais ce temps est révolu depuis longtemps. En ce temps de COVID‑19, l’Internet nous procure un...
