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Online-onlyThe residents of the Happiness Inn
In Niagara Falls, Ontario, low-income seniors are left with no choice but to move into an uninhabitable motel: the Happiness Inn.
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Online-onlyAbolish long-term care
We don’t need to confine elderly and disabled people to deadly and dehumanizing institutions. What if they lived in the community and received at-home care from a support worker?
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MagazineDeath by a thousand cuts: Aging in Canadian prisons
Elderly prisoners need health care, not incarceration.
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MagazineThe slow crisis in Saskatchewan’s long-term care
Though 80 per cent of Canada’s COVID deaths have happened in long-term care homes, Saskatchewan has fared better than the Canadian average. It was thanks, in part, to its relatively robust system of publicly owned homes. But in recent decades, cracks have begun showing in that system.
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A community response to COVID-19
As lockdown eases, a group providing assistance to Elders and seniors during COVID-19 is rethinking what community support looks like during the long arc of the pandemic.
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Magazine“I have the inalienable right to protect this land”
An interview with Elder Jo-Ann Saddleback about Land Back, matriarchy, democracy, and decolonization.
