In the latest episode of Pullback Podcast, Kristen and Kyla are joined by Abdul Malik of the Off Court Podcast to discuss the 2022 Beijing Olympics and, more broadly, the ethics of big sport. This was the second new podcast released since Pullback joined the Harbinger Media Network, Canada’s progressive podcasting network.

Kristen’s latest article is available as an online-first version in the Journal of Social Policy. When contracting public services to nonprofits, governments can choose non-market systems that avoid incentives to decrease service expansiveness over time. The paper compares Canadian and English homelessness.

Pullback Podcast is midway through a three part series on food waste, justice, and resistance. Featuring Kristen and Kyla’s most challenging episode in a while: dumpster diving! In the first episode of the series, Kristen shares her research on the topic of food insecurity, how it's been affected by COVID-19, why food waste is such a problem, and what we can do to improve access to food for all. In the second episode, Kristen and Kyla are joined by Robert Miller to discuss the documentary “Just Eat It”, and their second attempt at dumpster diving. A third episode with the NGO Second Harvest on food rescue will be released in two weeks.

The latest episode of Pullback Podcast is a collaboration with Saliema and Biraima of the Daily Dose of Blackness Podcast and Panthea Vatandoost of the Medusa Theatre Society. We discuss cultural appropriation, including its roots and how to recognize it.

In the latest episode of Pullback Podcast, Kristen and Kyla are joined by climate activist Robert Miller to discuss The Waste-Free World by Ron Gonen, an in-depth look at innovation and the transition to a circular economy.

In the latest episode of Pullback Podcast, Kristen and Kyla are joined by climate activist Robert Miller to discuss the impacts of the AR6 Climate Change 2021 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Philanthropic Foundations Canada recently published our report on the sixth and final session of our study on the impact of COVID-19 on philanthropic foundations in Canada. The study used an iterative Delphi method to track the experience of 22 foundations from May 2020 through to May 2021. In our latest report we provide a concise, practical overview of our findings from the final session.

In the latest episode of Pullback Podcast, Kristen and Kyla dive into the ethics of eating locally. It’s more complicated than you think! Listen at pullback.org/episodes or on your podcasting platform of choice. Pullback is a podcast about the ethical issues behind everyday goods.

In the latest episode of Pullback Podcast, Kristen and Kyla wrap up their three-part series on electronics with the story of the Enough Project’s campaign against conflict minerals. Topics: what are conflict minerals; conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the role of mineral wealth in the conflict; the Enough Project’s conflict minerals campaign; what companies can do; what legislation can do; what you can do. You can listen to the episode at pullback.org or on your podcasting platform of choice.

In the lastest episode of Pullback Podcast, Kristen and her co-host Kyla talk all about ethics and pet ownership. Listen here or wherever you get podcasts.

My recently published paper with Daniel Westlake and Alix Jansen, “Does the Profit Motive Matter? COVID-19 Prevention and Management in Ontario Long-term Care”, was featured in the PANL Perspectives Newsletter of Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. Click here to read the post featuring our article!

My latest PhiLab blog post—co-authored with Dan Westlake and Alix Jansen—presents the results from our recently published study on COVID-19 in long-term care. In “Does the Profit Motive Matter? COVID-19 Prevention and Management in Ontario Long-term Care Homes”, we find that for-profit long-term care homes did the worst job of protecting life during the pandemic. But nonprofits were not much better. The data reveal that government long-term care homes were associated with the best COVID-19 management outcomes, while nonprofits were in the middle. The Philab blog post reflects on why, and where we go from here.

My new article in the Conversation—co-authored with Dan Westlake and Alix Jansen—argues that Ontario’s provincial government should consider replacing all for-profit and nonprofit long-term care with direct government provision. While many people have focused on for-profit long-term care, nonprofits also experienced problems in preventing resident deaths from COVID-19. This piece in the Conversation is based on our recently published article in Canadian Public Policy, “Does the Profit Motive Matter? COVID-19 Prevention and Management in Ontario Long-term Care”.

Today we released a special episode of Pullback Podcast in partnership with the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network (PhiLab) on COVID-19’s impacts and the prospects for a just recovery. The episode is an interview with Steven Ayer, lead author and researcher of the Toronto Fallout Report. This was also the fiftieth episode of the Pullback Podcast, which I co-host with Kyla Hewson. Pullback is a podcast about everyday ethics. Listen in for a discussion covering topics from health inequality to food insecurity, mental health, economic challenges, housing, and the future of the nonprofit sector. You can find the episode here via Pullback, here via PhiLab or on your podcasting platform of choice!

Read my new case study on the recent transformation of the Canadian Red Cross under climate change. It was published today in PhiLab’s December special edition on climate change and the environment. I show that increased natural disasters have expanded the role of the Red Cross, first through philanthropic funding and later on through government supports. Today, the Red Cross is an indispensable part of a growing area of Canadian social policy: emergency social services. This case shows an instance of welfare nonprofitization in action and points to the connections between philanthropy and welfare state expansion.