Excellent work by these reporters that has profoundly changed public discourse on LTC ownership but it begs the question - why did it take a pandemic to expose the horrors of privatization in LTC?
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Publications like @briarpatchmag, @socialistprojct & @rankandfileca were writing about this issue for years but the mainstream didn& #39;t care to pick it up (while generating ad revenue off Chartwells & Extendicares). Here& #39;s a Briarpatch piece from 2011: http://bit.ly/3bdf4pw ">https://bit.ly/3bdf4pw&q...

And of course, unions and groups like the @OntarioHealthC too have been reporting this for years. As Natalie from the OHC said to me, "We would say it but they just wouldn& #39;t report it"

And there& #39;s the matter of uncritically parroting industry propaganda