Op-ed
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May 10, 2020 
Band-Aids and Kisses: A Public Health & Climate Crisis
When I was thirteen and alive, I wanted to travel the world to combat illness and disease. I wanted to make wounds better with lots…
coronavirus
Interview
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May 8, 2020
Interview: Coronavirus and care homes
The coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, and frontline workers everywhere are bearing the brunt of the risk, often with little help. Support workers in care…
Analysis
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May 7, 2020
COVID or capitalism: What’s causing the food crisis?
“The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get…
News
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May 6, 2020
Housing = Health: Car caravan says housing for all
On May 6 over 50 honking cars circled Queen’s Park and Toronto City Hall in a car caravan demanding that the city and province immediately…
Op-ed
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April 30, 2020
It’s hard to “Stay the Blazes Home” when you don’t have one
In the precarious times of COVID19 people are becoming increasingly familiar with their local politicians. Seeing Nova Scotia’s Premier, Stephen McNeil, every day has become…
Feature
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April 29, 2020
COVID-19: How should the economy be reopened?
With some indications that COVID-19 numbers are peaking across Canada, the debate is shifting from how to stop the pandemic to how to restart the…
Analysis
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April 23, 2020
COVID-19, landlord power and tenant organizing
Through self-isolation and a stunted economy, COVID-19 chaos has amplified the tension between what is considered as a nice-to-have and what is essential. Access to…
Interview
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April 21, 2020
‘Solidarity is fundamental’: Lessons in pandemic response
Spring Magazine spoke with Srinivas Murthy, a critical care and infectious disease specialist, about the social and economic factors that have fueled COVID-19, and what…
Interview
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April 20, 2020
‘A system destroyed by neoliberalism’: Italian healthcare pre-COVID
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been severe in Italy, particularly in the northern region of Lombardy. Spring Magazine spoke with Stefano Agnoletto, an…
Interview
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April 18, 2020
COVID-19 and Indigenous communities: One First Nation’s story
Spring Magazine had the honour of interviewing respected Elder and past Chief Myeengun Henry of the Deshkaan Ziibi First Nation (Chippewas of the Thames First…
Analysis
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April 17, 2020
Don’t subsidize corporations, democratize the economy
On Easter weekend Sid Hynes, the Executive Chairman of Oceanex, a Canadian shipping company, announced they would be cutting back their shipping service to Newfoundland….
Interview
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April 16, 2020
Essential work deserves essential protections
At an online press conference on April 16, frontline workers gave first-hand accounts about why precarious employment is a health hazard for workers and the…