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Simon Lewsen

Simon Lewsen writes for The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Azure, Precedent, and enRoute. He teaches writing at the University of Toronto.

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Feature by Simon Lewsen

The Long History (and Scary Future) of Our Broken Health Care System

Hospitals were overwhelmed and overcrowded well before the pandemic. What happens after COVID?

Feature by Simon Lewsen

A Long-Term Tragedy

The devastation in seniors homes during COVID-19 was the predictable result of decades of indifference and neglect. From Victorian poorhouses to sites of mass death—the shameful history of our long-term care system.

Feature by Simon Lewsen

Thursday in Virtual Bail Court

Overnight, almost every aspect of the justice system has transformed in the name of public health. So why are we still sending people to crowded jails?

Feature by Simon Lewsen

Not Criminally Responsible

Were last summer’s high-profile disappearances from CAMH signs of a broken program—or a complex system working as it should?

Feature by Simon Lewsen with photography by Chloë Ellingson

Battle at Rowntree Mills

When the parking lot gates were shut ten years ago, Rowntree Mills Park became an urban wilderness. The fight to reopen it has divided a community and raises the question: how public is a public park?

Feature by Simon Lewsen

Hunger in a City of Plenty

In virtually every culture, people connect over food. To be deprived of food is to be alienated from social life.

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The Kids of Condoland

A baby boom’s coming to Toronto’s high-rise communities, but are they built for healthy family life?

Feature by Simon Lewsen

A Mental Health Crisis in Little Bangladesh

As a counsellor, Ahmed Haider saw the way lack of meaningful work affected his clients. Then he lost his job.

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