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Emma Arkell

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As seen in: PressProgress, Chatelaine, Corporate Social Responsibility News Today, Jacobin, The Tyee, In These Times, Xtra Magazine, Portside, Briarpatch Magazine, Healthy Debate, ZNetwork and
freelance labour journalist / words and 📸 in @Chatelaine @Jacobin @TheTyee @TheBreachMedia @readthemaple @XtraMagazine / formerly @GlobalRepCentre
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Connecting the dots: Standardizing EMR data essential to improving care, easing burnout - Healthy...

Connecting the dots: Standardizing EMR data essential to improving care, easing burnout - Healthy...

Healthy Debate — As a registered nurse, an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan and a researcher focused on patient-oriented health informatics, Tracie Risling was excited to move to Alberta in 2021 for a position at the University of Calgary. Two years earlier, the province had launched Connect Care, an Alberta-wide electronic medical records (EMR) system.
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Beam me up, doc: Adding touch and feel to virtual reality - Healthy Debate

Beam me up, doc: Adding touch and feel to virtual reality - Healthy Debate

Healthy Debate — Imagine sitting down in your doctor's office, putting on a headset and being transported to an examination room. A specialist sits in front of you and, after a short conversation, touches your stomach to locate the source of persistent pain. You feel like you're in the same room, but in reality, you're hundreds of kilometers from each other.
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'A new way to move people': Fewer back injuries for health-care workers, more comfort for patient...

'A new way to move people': Fewer back injuries for health-care workers, more comfort for patient...

Healthy Debate — More than 60,000 health-care workers miss time from work annually due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) resulting from routine tasks such as lifting and transferring patients.
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How For-Profit Corporations Expanded In B.C.'s Long-Term Care Sector

How For-Profit Corporations Expanded In B.C.'s Long-Term Care Sector

The Maple — Recent conversations around health care privatization in Canada have focused on corporate creep into aspects of health care that are typically covered under the Canada Health Act (CHA), like primary care clinics. But private interests have spent decades moving into areas of health care that fall outside the CHA, such as long-term care.
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Could A Staffing Crisis Jeopardize $10-A-Day Child Care?

Could A Staffing Crisis Jeopardize $10-A-Day Child Care?

Chatelaine — Just as federal and provincial governments are making historic investments to build a universal child care system, child care centres are struggling to find staff. Without major improvements to wages and working conditions, there simply won’t be enough employees to provide consistent, quality child care.
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A number of drag shows in Ontario have become targets of hate

A number of drag shows in Ontario have become targets of hate

Xtra Magazine — Crystal Quartz made a tearful plea for action after repeated calls for her—and other—drag events to be disrupted
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Student-worker organizing is surging on campuses across Canada

Student-worker organizing is surging on campuses across Canada

The Breach — Have you been concerned about running out of money to buy food? This question is put to University of British Columbia (UBC) students every year as part of an academic experience and affordability survey. Since COVID-19 hit, a growing number of people have answered "yes."
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Experts Hope Incoming B.C. Premier Eby Will Heed Disqualified Appadurai's Bold Healthcare Proposa...

Experts Hope Incoming B.C. Premier Eby Will Heed Disqualified Appadurai's Bold Healthcare Proposa...

The Maple — Disqualified B.C. NDP leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai released a health care policy platform earlier this month that pledged to address privatization in the province's health care system by strengthening the public sector.
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LGBTQ+ Afghan refugees are starting new lives in Canada—but hundreds are still stuck in limbo

LGBTQ+ Afghan refugees are starting new lives in Canada—but hundreds are still stuck in limbo

Xtra Magazine — A year after the Taliban takeover, advocates are urging the government to welcome more queer refugees and make arriving in Canada easier
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Child Care Workers Have Been Left Behind During The Pandemic. Will This Fall Be Different?

Child Care Workers Have Been Left Behind During The Pandemic. Will This Fall Be Different?

The Maple — This month, teachers and students return to classrooms with fewer COVID protections than at any time during the pandemic. Debates have raged about the best way to prevent the spread of COVID in schools, but a key part of the education system is often left out of these discussions: Child care.
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The right to return to work

The right to return to work

Briarpatch Magazine — At the beginning of the pandemic, the Pacific Gateway and Hilton Metrotown hotels laid off their workers - then refused to hire them back. Hotel workers are fighting for their jobs, and for the future of the hotel industry after the pandemic.
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Why Is The Pandemic's Economic Harm Disproportionately Impacting Young Women?

Why Is The Pandemic's Economic Harm Disproportionately Impacting Young Women?

PressProgress — There's no doubt the pandemic has caused global economic harm - from record high unemployment, to waves of restrictions causing businesses to temporarily shut down, to a massive decrease in tourism, we're living through an economic crisis comparable to the great depression.
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BC's Investments in For-Profit Child Care Could Undercut Promises of Higher Wages and Lower Fees,...

BC's Investments in For-Profit Child Care Could Undercut Promises of Higher Wages and Lower Fees,...

PressProgress — 90% of facilities opened over the last year are for-profit Despite pledging to invest heavily in not-for-profit child care facilities, British Columbia's Minister of State for Child Care Katrina Chen recently admitted that 90% of the child care facilities opened over the past year have been for-profit.
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Hotel Workers Are Fighting For Their Right to Be Recalled to Work After The Pandemic Ends. They C...

Hotel Workers Are Fighting For Their Right to Be Recalled to Work After The Pandemic Ends. They C...

PressProgress — Thousands of hospitality workers across British Columbia are currently on strike or under threat of lockout in response to strained negotiations with employers who refuse to bring their employees back when business returns.
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