Thread by @NutellaFanatik, Excellent work by these reporters that has profoundly changed public discourse on [...]

Zaid Noorsumar

NutellaFanatik

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?
https://bit.ly/3oaW3cJ https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1390815115369398273

Publications like @briarpatchmag, @socialistprojct & @rankandfileca were writing about this issue for years but the mainstream didn't care to pick it up (while generating ad revenue off Chartwells & Extendicares). Here's a Briarpatch piece from 2011: http://bit.ly/3bdf4pw

Crisis in care

Ontario pioneers the privatization of long-term care – As the pioneer of privatized care in Canada, Ontario has opened the doors for a corporate takeover of long-term care homes, resulting in chronic...

http://bit.ly/3bdf4pw

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't report it"

And there's the matter of uncritically parroting industry propaganda

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