Resources
COVID-19 Preparedness and Management Special Report
The tragic impact of COVID-19 on the residents and staff of long-term-care homes in 2020 is unprecedented. The pandemic starkly highlighted the underlying long-standing problems of the long-term-care sector, which has typically operated separately from other sectors.
Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission
The Commissioners of Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission has a mandate to investigate how and why COVID-19 spread in long-term care homes, what was done to prevent the spread, and the impact of key elements of the existing system on the spread.
Care,
Not Profits
The failed experiment of for-profit long-term care must come to an end. Better long-term care means providing caregivers a full-time job with benefits like paid sick leave, mandating high staff-to-resident ratios for quality elder care, and standardizing living-wages.
Decent Work and Health Network
Guided by the principles of the social determinants of health (SDOH), Decent Work and Health Network addresses issues such as working conditions and income inequality at the individual, community and policy levels.
Fight for $15 and Fairness
For too many years, Ontario workers have been struggling to get by on low wages and precarious jobs. While the cost of living increased and corporate profits continued to break records, workers saw their wages stagnate.
FordTracker.ca
Big changes have come to Ontario with Doug Ford’s PC majority government. The goal and approach of this site is simple: to track the Ford government’s policy and actions so we have an easy-to-access chronological reference of what is going on.
Environmental Defence
Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization working to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities.
Labour Council Policy Statements
The Toronto & York Region Labour Council develops policies that provide analysis of current events or political challenges facing working people in greater Toronto and beyond. The shaping of these policies is informed by the lived experience of our front-line members in every sector of the economy, and every community in the region. Since 1871, Labour Council has been working for social, economic, racial and climate justice in our society.