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Jul 27, 2024 | 
brandonsun.com | Brandon Doucet
As a dentist and advocate for public dental care, I often speak to other dentists about the issue. Recently, I’ve started hearing a new type of story — dentists receiving threatening phone calls from colleagues, intimidating them with threats to stop sending them referrals if they participate in the federal government’s public dental insurance program.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Randy Robinson |David Moscrop |Brandon Doucet
Queen’s Park is planning big changes to the way Ontarians buy alcohol. How will this affect provincial finances? Seven weeks after the government announced the changes, that question remains unanswered. My estimate, discussed here, is that at current consumption levels, the new retail regime means provincial coffers are set to lose $510 million a year. For his part, Premier Doug Ford insists his plan will rake in a lot of money for the province.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | David Moscrop |Randy Robinson |Brandon Doucet |Trish Hennessy
The following text was originally published on David Moscrop's Substack. It is republished here with permission. I remember where I was on September 11th, 2001. I was in high school, in English class, when someone came in to tell our teacher the news. Later, in the halls, students were sharing updates and theories, and someone said the National Mall was on fire and I wondered why a shopping centre would be a target. I don’t remember when I learned what the National Mall is, but I know now.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Randy Robinson |Brandon Doucet |Trish Hennessy
By now, most Ontarians know that frontline workers at the LCBO are on strike, but not everyone knows why. So here’s an explanation. This is not just another strike about wages and working conditions. It’s about stopping the destruction of actual jobs held by actual people. It’s about protecting a public asset that belongs not to the government but to the people of Ontario. And it’s about protecting billions of dollars in revenues that fund provincial public services. All of those things are connected.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Brandon Doucet |Trish Hennessy |Katherine Scott
Organized dentists’ associations are working hard to undermine the public insurance plan—it’s time the federal government tackle it head on As a dentist, and an open advocate for public dental care, I often speak to other dentists about the issue.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Catherine Bryan |María José Yax-Fraser |Randy Robinson |Brandon Doucet
In the lexicon of immigrant settlement services, the term "survival jobs" is used to signal temporary employment intended to ensure survival in the short term, and increasingly framed as an advantage to earn Canadian experience, practice and improve English language skill, and build local networks. Reflective of labour market stratification and exclusions, “survival jobs” are most easily accessed in sectors where the pay is low, hours are part time, and formal protections are limited.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Katherine Scott |Randy Robinson |Brandon Doucet |Trish Hennessy
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible. Make a donation of $35 or more and receive The Monitor magazine for one full year and a donation receipt for the full amount of your gift. The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the globe in 2020 not only threatened people’s health but exposed and exacerbated entrenched inequalities. Women bore the brunt.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Simon Enoch |Charles Smith |Judy Rebick |Brandon Doucet
The Saskatchewan government’s election year budget does what you would expect an election year budget to do.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Judy Rebick |Brandon Doucet |Randy Robinson |Stuart Trew
About two years ago I agreed to work on building a broad coalition for the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce (CanWCC). It is the only chamber of commerce in Canada that focuses on women and it is feminist, intersectional and social justice oriented, much to my surprise. Nancy Wilson, their CEO, explained that in attending Covid consultations with other chambers of commerce, she realized that the major chambers were not representing her members, most of whom are solo and small entrepreneurs.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Brandon Doucet |Randy Robinson |Stuart Trew |David Macdonald
Compromises with for-profit dentistry leave the plan open to future attacks Canada is long overdue for an expansion of public dental care, but it seems that the federal government is weakening the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) before it gets off the ground. Canada’s public dental spending is a paltry six per cent of total dental spending, ranking second last amongst countries that are members of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
