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A protest demanding justice for Joyce Echaquan in Montréal in October 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Québec’s cultural awareness training makes flawed assumptions that do not prioritize the safety of Indigenous people

Marie-Claude Tremblay, Université Laval; Alex M. McComber, McGill University, and Georgia Limniatis, McGill University

Cultural awareness training for health-care workers places focus on individual biases rather than tackling the systemic problems that negatively impact Indigenous patients.
Women wait in line to fill buckets from a communal clean tap in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa. The country has extremely high levels of inequality. Nic Bothma/Reuters

Why inequality will not be fixed with Pikettian posturing and distorted data

Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand

Thomas Piketty’s visit reminds us of the need to reconsider South African inequality-fibbery. His inequality critique is vital, but only if it can withstand the neoliberal embrace.
Student doctor Livhuwani Mashanzhe (R) from the University of Johannesburg takes a blood test from a patient at Kimberley train station in South Africa in this file picture. Juda Ngwenya/Reuters

A human step to equal health care in South Africa’s rural hospitals

Daphney Nozizwe Conco, University of the Witwatersrand

Skilled mid level health care workers can relieve the workload of other health care workers and can help make universal health care a reality for South Africans.

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  5. Inequality
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  7. Keynesianism
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  9. Quebec

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