The national disgraces of LTC deaths and other COVID-19 inequities are rooted in the disgraces of genocide and slavery on which this nation was built, and which are perpetuated through prisons, police, borders and carceral policies
Two medical professionals who have been raising the alarm on pandemic profiteering are Amie Varley and Sarah Fung. Nurses by training, they’ve started a podcast called The Gritty Nurse, where they examine healthcare practice and policy from an inside perspective.
As we mourn the loss of frontline workers, we need to fight for all workers living through the same conditions by taking the profit out of healthcare and providing paid sick days for all.
To maximize the effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine it has to be universally accessible
Why should we have “for-profit healthcare” in the first place? Why not nationalize LTCs altogether?
Medicine has to change. Medicine right now is still a colonial, racist practice.
COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of strengthening universal healthcare to reverse the decades of cuts and to expand healthcare for all. The pandemic and economic…
“Healthcare for all would be one of the better actions the government can take towards alleviating the plight of immigrants in this country. Nobody chooses…
Spring Magazine spoke with Jillian Primiano, a registered nurse from Brooklyn, about her experience as a front-line worker during COVID-19, the link between racism and…
May 15 saw dozens of front-line health workers protest outside a hospital in Toronto, supported by a cavalcade of allies in their cars. They were…
Spring Magazine recently sat down with two support workers in Vancouver. In part 1 of this interview we discussed the inadequate degree of workplace safety….
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…
