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The Missing Piece in Health and Education
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 1, 2023 Although recent media coverage of our healthcare and education problems here in Manitoba has been…
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What we can learn from Québec’s Health in All Policies approach
One notable element is that it requires a health impact assessment to be conducted on policies within and outside of the health sector. This is…
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Decent work: A shared vision
The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health has released a comprehensive and super useful guide to decent work from an intersectional standpoint. It provides…
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In Focus: Canada’s baby formula shortage is another blow for infant food security
Previously published in The Globe and Mail May 24, 2022 The topic of food insecurity for families with young children has made headlines in…
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What does inclusive infrastructure look like?
Yet, in the context of infrastructure planning, inclusion is often ignored or it takes a back seat to growth.
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Arrested development
There’s a quiet resignation I feel when I think about how big $92 billion is compared to how small the community I grew up in is… And instead of building up kids in [communities like mine], we pumped $92 billion into a global war on terror in the first 10 years alone.
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The post-pandemic future: More supportive housing for semi-independent seniors
As our population ages, let’s rely less on long-term care and more on supportive housing:a cost-effective way for semi-independent seniors to live with dignity and independence.
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All across Canada, children are growing up in poverty
We mapped out child poverty rates across Canada.
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Patching up Canada’s income security net: Lessons from the pandemic
The big question now for Canada is whether, by design or default, we will revert to the “same old, same old” after the crisis.
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Oppression will try to steal your ability to dream. Don’t let it.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately high impact on Black communities. It’s exceptionally difficult to produce a vision of freedom in such rough times. But we must keep freedom dreaming.
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A well-being approach to governance
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the strong connections between health and broader social, economic and political circumstances. It’s time for a well-being approach to governance that is capable of addressing these connections.
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Beyond health care
The unequal distribution of health-damaging experiences is not in any sense a ‘natural’ phenomenon but is the result of a toxic combination of poor social…
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