As private equity expands into long-term care, the focus is increasingly on growing profits through buying, selling and leasing back real estate, not through providing care, Armine Yalnizyan writes.

Provinces want $28 billion more from the feds for health care. Before they get a penny, they should detail how they’ll use the infusion to buy change.

The Liberals estimate such a measure would give roughly 400,000 children access to healthier meals.

We are told to welcome, not fear, more for-profit care; that more care is the cure for what ails us. This claim is neither new nor true.

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We haven’t seen this kind of bargaining power among workers in half a century, Armine Yalnizyan writes. And the federal government is Canada’s single largest employer.

There is plenty a more activist PM could do to fight inflation. But those measures would only make things worse, David Olive writes.

The report published by the Centre for Future Work finds that the combination of jobs created by an expanded child-care system and increased participation in the labour force by women could add more...

The pandemic poured accelerant on what was the underlying trend: more exits from than entries to the labour market, writes economist Armine Yalnizyan and it means workers will have more inherent...

The federal government says it will spend $1 billion over five years to implement a national school food program.

The Conservative approach to recovery includes lots of physical infrastructure, yet our biggest deficits are in social infrastructure, Armine Yalnizyan writes.

Five fiscal approaches, writes Armine Yalnizyan, could lower costs, tackle long-term affordability and create more economic resilience

Public support for a national child care program is high, with more than 70% of Canadians in favour, as the Liberals face a neck-and-neck race with the Conservatives

The wonky metric is key to your quality of life, Armine Yalnizyan writes.

We need to prevent the further erosion of access to care while public funds enrich — and embolden — private investors, Armine Yalnizyan writes.

For businesses, and for individuals beyond a certain threshold, 67 per cent of capital gains would be subject to taxes, up from 50 per cent

To better address inequality, we might first consider the comparatively unsexy, un-new idea of pursuing public housing and housing decommodification on a massive scale—call it a public housing...

“If we get more child care only to enable women to go back to jobs where they earn considerably less than men, then that’s inadequate.”

Economist Armine Yalnizyan said we need an economic “she-covery” — one that focuses on getting women back to work and increasing child-care support for working parents.

Burned-out nurses are quitting and turning to temp agencies — setting their hours, choosing assignments, earning far more — and sounding the alarm, Armine Yalnizyan writes.