Ontario’s hidden institutions
Domiciliary hostels, which are less strictly regulated than long-term care facilities, are privately run and operate for profit—and they have been decimated by the pandemic. Photo courtesy the Vitanova Foundation.…
Megan Linton
‘Warehouses like this are not the answer’: Exposing the crisis of long-term care in Manitoba
Staff stand in a dormitory at the Manitoba Developmental Centre. Image courtesy of the Archives of Manitoba. Vietnam, New Zealand, China and Canada’s Atlantic provinces have demonstrated that once a…
Mental health under neoliberalism: From self-help to CBT
Screen capture taken from an animated short video on the website of the Government of Alberta, entitled Stop Negative Thoughts: Choosing a Healthier Way of Thinking. The provincial government’s health…
Institutional Legacies of Violence: Neoliberalism and Custodial Care in Ontario
Many residents at the Huronia Regional Centre, an institution for developmentally disabled children operated by the government of Ontario between 1876 and 2009, suffered long-term neglect as well as physical…
‘We Have Always Been Disposable’: the Structural Violence of Neoliberal Healthcare
COVID-19 is particularly dangerous for elders, particularly those with chronic illnesses. Photo from Flickr. The marriage of neoliberalism and the medical industrial complex has had disastrous results in Canada, even…