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November 2, 2020 
Long-term care in Ontario has been a free market disaster
Why should we have “for-profit healthcare” in the first place? Why not nationalize LTCs altogether?
healthcare
Interview
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September 28, 2020
Doctors orders: Defund police
Medicine has to change. Medicine right now is still a colonial, racist practice.
Interview
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July 29, 2020
Take a bite out of inequality: The case for universal dental care
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…
Analysis
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June 30, 2020
We need healthcare for all, during and after COVID-19
“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…
Interview
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June 18, 2020
‘Nurses fought COVID, now we’ll fight the police’
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…
Interview
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May 29, 2020
Excluded healthcare workers fight back: Join them!
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…
Interview
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May 11, 2020
Interview: Working in care homes
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….
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…
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 15, 2020
“We’re constantly worried about getting sick”: nurses during COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the world, frontline workers here in Canada are increasingly worried about their own safety, the health of…
Interview
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April 1, 2020
Health for all: COVID-19 and global health
Spring Magazine spoke with Iman Ahmed, a global health specialist, about COVID-19 from an international health perspective. All opinions expressed are personal and do not…