Category: Public Goods
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Healthcare Reform in a Post-Pandemic World
The industrialized world’s most unequal and inefficient healthcare system underwent a stress test this past pandemic year and failed miserably. Here are just a few of the indicators: the world’s … Keep reading »
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The Other Pandemic: Violence Against Healthcare Workers
I am old. I’ll be 72 this year. Will I live to 95? If so, what will I be like then? Will I be frail but mentally sound? Or will … Keep reading »
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A Workers’ Plan: A Sustainable and Socially Just Local Public Transport
The commitment of public funds and the development of new funding models for local public transport (LPT) operations, maintenance and infrastructure can play an important part in overcoming the COVID-19 … Keep reading »
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Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights
The multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is not confined to cross-border trade in physical goods. It was also designed to protect corporate knowledge monopolies. Developing countries were told … Keep reading »
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The Federal Election and Improving Accessible Transit
The lack of accessible transit throughout our country creates barriers for people with disabilities and limited mobility who rely on transit to get where they need to go, especially as … Keep reading »
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Living with the Virus? Personal Responsibility Is Not Enough.
In a much discussed editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Kamran Abbasi focused on the need to make governments accountable for failing to protect citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic, … Keep reading »
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Fare-Free is Transformational
This report briefly describes different areas where gains would be made by adopting a fare-free transit model. The real benefit would be that fare-free transit captures the imagination. Moving toward … Keep reading »
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Healthcare, Technology, and Socialized Medicine /w Pratyush Chandra
Unlike earlier experiences, with Covid-19 we see an emergence of the whole world as a stage where the drama unfolds. This is, of course, due to the technological shrinkage of … Watch video »
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Start Early, Stay Late: Planning for Care /w Pat and Hugh Armstrong
The lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – … Watch video »
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Laurentian University Insolvency Reflects a Structural Crisis in Ontario’s Neoliberal University System
Ontario governments have reduced their public grants for university operating revenues from a level at about 80% in 1980 to around 50% in 2004, and to only 38% in 2017. Keep reading »
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Anti-Privatization Movements in the Global South: P3s and Women's Human Rights
On March 29, 2021, we caught up with Corina Rodriguez Enriquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, researchers with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) “a network of feminist … Keep reading »
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Doug Ford and the PCs Plan Another Decade of Austerity
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal healthcare funding increases planned by the Doug Ford PC government between 2019-20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases … Keep reading »