Alix J. Jansen – The Conversation

A worker is seen cleaning surfaces inside Little Mountain Place, a not-for-profit long-term care home in Vancouver where dozens of residents have died in the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

June 8, 2021

Non‑profit long‑term care homes have lost too many residents to COVID‑19

Kristen Pue, Carleton University; Alix J. Jansen, University of Toronto, and Daniel Westlake, Queen's University, Ontario

The failure of for-profit long-term care homes to protect residents during the pandemic is well-known. But non-profits also under-performed governments in preventing COVID-19 deaths.

A photo of the last truck to be assembled on the General Motors production line, shown at a sports bar where GM workers congregated after their work work at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., on its final day of vehicle production, on Dec. 18, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim

January 20, 2020

Canada can better prepare to retrain workers displaced by disruptive technologies

Alix J. Jansen, University of Toronto; Beth Martin, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto; Linda A. White, University of Toronto, and Michal Perlman, University of Toronto

The federal government must take a stronger leadership role to ensure the many bodies that co-ordinate employment training programs are sharing information to develop best practices.

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