Daniel Westlake

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh meets with transit union members at an event in Toronto during the federal election campaign on March 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

April 2, 2025

Do union endorsements make a difference in election campaigns?

Larry Savage, Brock University and Daniel Westlake, University of Saskatchewan

Not all union endorsements carry the same weight, but they can play a strategically critical role in election campaigns.

A worker is seen cleaning surfaces inside Little Mountain Place, a not-for-profit long-term care home in Vancouver where dozens of residents have died in the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

June 8, 2021

Non‑profit long‑term care homes have lost too many residents to COVID‑19

Kristen Pue, Carleton University; Alix J. Jansen, University of Toronto, and Daniel Westlake, Queen's University, Ontario

The failure of for-profit long-term care homes to protect residents during the pandemic is well-known. But non-profits also under-performed governments in preventing COVID-19 deaths.

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