This Is the Test Case That Will Change Canada From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure Every table needs a chair. A place where a grandparent sits. Where a child returns. Where the story begins again. Subscribe This is that chair. This is the first Table-format site
Funding the Table Without Selling the Soul From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure Not every cheque is clean. Not every dollar deserves a seat. If you’ve built anything real, you’ve felt this. The pressure to take the money. To “secure runway.” To compromise, quietly,
The Infrastructure Nobody Is Talking About From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure When the power goes out, what happens to your mother’s oxygen line? That’s not a rhetorical question. It’s the question thousands of families faced during the 2021 BC heat dome. And
Is What We Become From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure If all you measure is decline, then decline is all you’ll see. This is the brutal truth behind most of Canadian long-term care: We track suffering better than we enable thriving. Subscribe Vitals, falls, medications,
Architecture as a Weapon Against Loneliness From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure The first thing they do is strip the room. A single bed. A plastic chair. A bathroom buzzer cord dangling like a noose from the ceiling. You think: “This can’t be it.” Subscribe
And Why It’s Not Going To Care From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure We keep hearing the lie: “There’s no money for this.” But long-term care isn’t broke. It’s bleeding money into the wrong hands. Subscribe 1. Follow the Flow If you
Let's Redefine What Home Is From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure They don’t die of old age. They die of separation. First from their homes. Then their communities. Then their names. Subscribe Long-term care calls it transition. But what it really is — Is
We Need Replacement Systems From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure We Know What’s Wrong. We’ve Known for Years. And Nothing Changed. Thousands of studies. Dozens of commissions. Endless panels, position papers, and pilot programs. Still — elders suffer. Still — PSWs leave. Still — towns collapse. This
Is About to Collapse From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure In the hierarchy of healthcare, Personal Support Workers (PSWs), care aides, and front-line long-term care staff are the ones closest to the body — and farthest from the budget. They bathe, feed, turn, soothe, medicate, clean, and
C‑2 & C‑5 Signal a Democratic Emergency, Not a Policy Debate This is not legislation. This is architecture. Bills C‑2 and C‑5, tabled by Canada’s Liberal government, represent a quiet coup against democratic norms. Under the guise of economic urgency and border security, these bills
What Do They Need, To Stay? It’s Not Just the Old Who Are Disappearing — It’s the Town Itself. From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure In rural Canada, death doesn’t always come with sirens. Sometimes, it comes quietly: * A nurse takes a job in
What We Got Was Containment The Lie of Long-Term Care From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure It began with the best of intentions. Secure buildings. Trained staff. Shared resources. But the institutions we built to protect elders became the very reason they disappeared. Subscribe This is