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Taking profits out of long-term care: a conversation with Albert Banerjee
by Said Noorsumar, January 3 2020| rabble.ca
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How the hunt for profits has shaped Ontario’s home care system
by Said Noorsumar, January 17, 2020 | rabble.ca
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Power, profit and politics in Ontario’s home-care sector
by Said Noorsumar
March 6, 2020 | rabble.ca
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As COVID-19 ravages nursing homes researcher warns that home-care patients can’t be forgotten
Though home-care patients are obviously more spread out than nursing home patients, an outbreak in a community could quickly prove devastating to them
by Brian Platt, National Post, April 17, 2020
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COVID-19: Are we making decisions without reliable data?
Munk Debates Podcast, March 26, 2020, with epidemiologists John Ioannidis and Sten Vermund
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Ghana’s president has invoked a tough new law against coronavirus: why it’s disquieting
by Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, The Conversation, April 7, 2020
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There Is No Outside
Health workers can respond to this crisis by taking up working-class struggles as our own
by Karim Sariahmed, April 8, 2020 | n+1
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The Ideas That Won’t Survive the Coronavirus
Covid-19 is killing off the myth that we are the greatest country on earth.
By Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New York Times, April 10, 2020
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Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting
You are not crazy my friends
by Julio Vincent Gambit, April 10 2020
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The WHO v coronavirus: why it can’t handle the pandemic
Attacked by Trump and ignored by many of its most powerful members
the World Health Organization is facing a major crisis – just at the moment we need it most.
by Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian, April 14, 2020
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Bigger Brother
Review and discussion of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,
by Tim Wu, The New York Review of Books, Issue dated April 9, 2020
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Privacy in the balance
The pandemic is accelerating the spread of Big Data. Canadian law and regulation will have to find a way to keep up.
by Leo Singer | CBA National – Canadian Legal Affairs, 15 April 2020
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John Prine’s Perfect Songs
Amanda Petrusic, The New Yorker, April 82020
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And this announcement …
A special issue in honour of and tribute to the late Martin Khor
SUNS – South North Development Monitor, Third World Network, #9100, Wednesday, 15 April 2020
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Watch a video created by Andrew Ng Yew Han as tribute to Martin Khor here.