Reposted by Dennis RaphaelDennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 8hAnd I always thought … Brecht’s Poems and the Achievement of Health Equity e-cibs.org/2026/07/14/a...e-cibs.orgAnd I always thought … Brecht’s Poems and the Achievement of Health EquityWilliam MacGregor and Dennis Raphael, School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Canada AbstractAchieving health equity – reducing health inequalities between population grou… 012
Reposted by Dennis Raphaeltobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 8hwww.thestar.com/opinion/cont...thestar.comLinda McQuaig: Mark Carney’s massive hidden fossil-fuel subsidy shows us where the prime minister standsAs the country recovers from scorching wildfires, our prime minister has introduced a massive new subsidy for the fossil fuel industry. And its middle class Canadians who will end up 001
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 8hAnd I always thought … Brecht’s Poems and the Achievement of Health Equity e-cibs.org/2026/07/14/a...e-cibs.orgAnd I always thought … Brecht’s Poems and the Achievement of Health EquityWilliam MacGregor and Dennis Raphael, School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Canada AbstractAchieving health equity – reducing health inequalities between population grou… 012
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 14hThere are many ways of killing. You could stick a knife into someone’s stomach, take someone’s bread away, not cure someone’s illness, put someone in poor accommodation, work someone to death, drive someone to suicide, take someone to war and so on. In our country, some of this is forbidden. Brecht 001
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelDennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are many ways of killing. You could stick a knife into someone’s stomach, take someone’s bread away, not cure someone’s illness, put someone in poor accommodation, work someone to death, drive someone to suicide, take someone to war and so on. In our country, some of this is forbidden. Brecht 001
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are many ways of killing. You could stick a knife into someone’s stomach, take someone’s bread away, not cure someone’s illness, put someone in poor accommodation, work someone to death, drive someone to suicide, take someone to war and so on. In our country, some of this is forbidden. Brecht 001
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Going to places that can‘t be reached that way is a habit you must give up. Talking about matters that can’t be decided by talking is a habit you must give up. Thinking about problems that can’t be solved by thinking is a habit you must give up. Bertolt Brecht, Me-Ti: Book of Interventionsbloomsbury.comBertolt Brecht's Me-tiBertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too co… 000
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelDennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Going to places that can‘t be reached that way is a habit you must give up. Talking about matters that can’t be decided by talking is a habit you must give up. Thinking about problems that can’t be solved by thinking is a habit you must give up.” Bertolt Brecht, Me-Ti: Book of Interventions 012
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026classicalfm.ca/ludwig-van/t...classicalfm.caSCRUTINY | Diapente Renaissance Vocal Quintet & Comtessa Make Early Music Come Alive - Classical FMThe faraway world of Early Music was close and intimate with Comtessa and the Diapente Renaissance Vocal Quintet this afternoon. 000
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelDennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 022
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.bloomsbury.com/ca/bertolt-b...bloomsbury.comBertolt Brecht's Me-tiBertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too co… 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Going to places that can‘t be reached that way is a habit you must give up. Talking about matters that can’t be decided by talking is a habit you must give up. Thinking about problems that can’t be solved by thinking is a habit you must give up.” Bertolt Brecht, Me-Ti: Book of Interventions 012
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Pensions, policy drift and old-age poverty in Western Europe and North America journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 011
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." - Tommy Douglas 001
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@rbreich.bsky.social "Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." - Tommy Douglasthecanadianencyclopedia.caTommy DouglasThomas "Tommy" Clement Douglas, CC, premier of Saskatchewan, first leader of the New Democratic Party, Baptist minister and politician (born 20 October 1904 in ... 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The United States maintains an estimated 750 to 900 military installations abroad spread across roughly 80 countries and territories. 101
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 022
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Opinion | Mark Carney said Canada isn’t for sale. Is that still true? www.thespec.com/gift-redeem?...thespec.comGift-redeem 011
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelCanadian Association for Work & Labour Studies (CAWLS) @cawls-acets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Liberal labour reforms may be presented as a way to manage difficult disputes. But if Ottawa intervenes whenever a strike has major economic consequences, workers’ bargaining power will be weakened precisely when it matters most. theconversation.com/canadas-prop... #canlab #cdnpolitheconversation.comCanada’s proposed labour reforms could shift power away from workers in major disputesBill C-39 makes it easier for Ottawa to intervene when collective bargaining produces the very conflict that it is designed to manage. 045
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What Is Behind the Fluctuations in Seniors’ Poverty Rates in Canada from 1976-2019? crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cr... 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Escaping the Canadian polycrisis. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 100
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelSeth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Carney returns to Parliament with a massive bill blunting the right to strike and ‘bulldozing nature’ rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/carney-ret...rachelgilmore.substack.comCarney returns to Parliament with a massive bill blunting the right to strike and ‘bulldozing nature’Listen now | The first order of business? An omnibus bill that labour leaders warn will weaken Canadian workers’ right to strike, and that environmental groups warn will bulldoze nature. 0106
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelDon Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Liberals’ new bill allows the Minister to violate workers’ right to strike based solely on her opinion after taking into account any consideration she wants. That’s not guardrails at all - it’s pure discretion. 1417299
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@truthout.org canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 000
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelDennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 20/09/2026calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...calgaryherald.comOpinion: Is a nation falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong?Growing income and wealth inequality, housing and food insecurity, lack of unionized jobs, and a health-care system in crisis contribute. 003
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@atrupar.com Worse in the USA. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 011
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@solidarityrpm.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@unison.org.uk @unifor.org @canadianlabour.bsky.social @broadbent.bsky.social @canadianlabour.bsky.social @opseusefpo.bsky.social @sbworkersunited.org @oflabour.bsky.social @endpoverty.bsky.social @breachmedia.ca canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@seiu.org @unifor.org @unitenow.bsky.social 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... @naomiaklein.bsky.social @avilewis.ca @aoc.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.socialcanadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 000
Reposted by Dennis RaphaelDennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@canadiandimension.bsky.social 001
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 20/09/2026calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...calgaryherald.comOpinion: Is a nation falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong?Growing income and wealth inequality, housing and food insecurity, lack of unionized jobs, and a health-care system in crisis contribute. 003
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 19/09/2026truthout.org/articles/chi...truthout.orgChina Miéville: Marx’s Communist Manifesto Has Much to Teach Us in 2023“Every day, capitalism proves that it is absolutely indifferent to human flourishing,” says author China Miéville. 010
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@rabble.ca canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@drjackbrown.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 000
Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@rachelgilmore.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comEscaping the Canadian polycrisisThe polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r... 000