Join us for a 4-part webinar series that explores the increasing commercialization and privatization of the long-term care industry in North America and Europe.
Category: Canada
Building Campaigns Against Privatization of Health Services – A virtual learning series
Join PHM-North America for a virtual course to share and strategize with health activists from across the globe and build your campaign to resist privatization of health services! Building community & campaigns From examples around the world, PHM-North America has been learning how to build successful…
Reimagining safety in a pandemic: The imperative to dismantle structural oppression in Canada
An analysis of the discourse on safety during the COVID19 pandemic for the Canadian Medical Association Journal by a few members of PHM Canada. Read the full article here. Reimagining safety in a pandemic: the imperative to dismantle structural oppression in Canada Nikisha Khare, Farah Shroff, Blessing Nkennor and Baijayanta…
APHA 2020 Annual Meeting: PHM-NA Recommended Sessions & Activities
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s APHA Annual Meeting & Expo is going virtual! But many PHM-NA activists and affiliated organizations will again be at this year’s Meeting to discuss the pressing challenges we face across the globe that threaten the right to health. Below, you can find a list of…
PHM Canada 2020 National Meeting
Members of PHM Canada met on 29 June to plan for the year ahead. The pandemic reinforced the need for us to reorganise our structures to be able to respond better to the workload, and we spent some time rethinking ways to move ahead. This conversation about our internal organisation…
A struggle more necessary than ever – PHM 2019 Annual Report
PHM’s 2019 Annual Report highlights campaigns, movement building, capacity building and continued advocacy around a robust political economy-based critical analysis of health across all regions. Download the report here. PHM’s struggle for health is both more necessary than ever but also more of an uphill battle than ever.
Ontario: Immediately halt COVID-19 health data sharing with police!
PHM-Canada has joined a coalition healthcare providers, community members, healthcare researchers, community organizations, communities excessively targeted for criminalization, and healthcare organizations across Ontario who oppose to inappropriate use of police power and privacy violations by law enforcement. The coalition issued a an open letter to government officials to demand an…
Transformation Needed: The Global Distribution of PPE Must Change
Many systems have failed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, putting people’s health at serious risk. The increased demand from PPE from workers and the public made clear the inadequacy of the global distribution system of PPE. The fallout has lead to shortages of PPE that heighten health risks…
PHM-Canada Declaration on COVID-19 Pandemic
In these unprecedented times, members of People’s Health Movement Canada from across Turtle Island came together to reflect on what health justice looks like during the COVID-19 pandemic. We mourn the suffering and immense loss caused by the outbreak, and we hold in honour our allies and colleagues, in China,…
April 7: International Day of Action for #Health4All
In 1950, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared April 7 World Health Day to raise awareness about important health issues such as mental health, maternal and child care, and climate change. For the past five years, however, the European Network Against the Commercialisation and Privatisation of Health and Social Protection…