Tag: Healthcare
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Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil
As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate healthcare system that has failed them at every step, for a majority … Keep reading »
The West Is Practicing Vaccine Apartheid at a Global Level
More than an eighth of the world’s population living in rich countries – the United States, Canada, the UK, and the EU – have access to more than 50 per … Keep reading »
Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada
Independent Jewish Voice Canada (IJV) has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for declaring Israel an apartheid state in its treatment of Palestinians. However, neither organization included medical apartheid in … Keep reading »
The Geopolitics of Vaccine Apartheid
On 22 April, Earth Day, US President Joe Biden convened a summit on the climate crisis with the heads of several important countries. While this was an attempt to bring … Keep reading »
TRIPS Waiver & Libertarian Brain Rot
TSS digs through a libertarian Financial Post article opposing a TRIPS waiver for COVID vaccines, discuss the public research origin of COVID vaccines, and dissect Biden’s puzzling tentative support for a patent waiver. Listen to audio »
India’s Pandemic Disaster: The Responsibility of Modi and the BJP
As infections and deaths mount at a terrifying pace in India, the prime minister’s culpability for the crisis has become startlingly clear. Keep reading »
The Care Economy Statement
If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country. And there is no better time to … Keep reading »
COVID-19 and Public Sector Workers: Tax Justice, the Just Transition and the Care Economy
An Interview with Daniel Bertossa – Public Services International On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 we caught up with Daniel Bertossa, Assistant General Secretary at Public Services International (PSI), a global union … Keep reading »
Reform of Quebec’s Workplace Health-and-Safety Regime: “Social Partnership” or Class Struggle?
Last January, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ – National Institute of Public Health) published a report on non-traumatic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). These are pains and other … Keep reading »
Closing the Enforcement Gap: The Pandemic and Precarious Employment
As of March 15th, Ontario will have spent a full year in some form of lockdown. More than 22,000 Ontarians have died from COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of jobs have … Keep reading »
Pharma Failure
We discuss the failure of Bill C-213 to pass its Second Reading in the House of Commons. It would have started the process of creating a national pharmacare program in Canada. Listen to audio »
Fighting the Medical Monopoly: Mobilizing for ZERO-COVID and Decommodified Healthcare
With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, ‘vaccine nationalism’ is only slightly more rife than the calls against it. The focus on ‘vaccine nationalism’ by critical thinkers and activists misses some … Keep reading »