A new species, Begonia rheophytica (§ Platycentrum), is described from northern Myanmar; it was initially confused with B. rhoephila, which is confined to Peninsular Malaysia. Comparison with other species with a rheophytic leaf shape is made. This new addition brings the number of currently recognised Begonia species in Myanmar to 73. An updated checklist of Myanmar Begonia species is also included.

This paper addresses some of the tensions for social cohesion presented by Canada's medicare system. This system, which constitutes the country's best-loved social program, is broadly governed by the five principles of the Canada Health Act. Independently and together, these principles promote social cohesion. Medicare is however also under threat from various elites, who favour elements of its privatization, and whose principal strategy is here termed privatization by stealth. The argument that privatization is disruptive of social cohesion is advanced in general terms and with specific reference to the case of Ontario's Community Care Access Centres, which broker public funds to non-profit and for-profit home care agencies across the province.

We conducted a mixed-methods study – the focus of this article – to understand how workers in long-term care facilities experienced working conditions. We surveyed unionized care workers in Ontario (n = 917); we also surveyed workers in three Canadian provinces (n = 948) and four Scandinavian countries (n = 1,625). In post-survey focus groups, we presented respondents with survey questions and descriptive statistical findings, and asked them: “Does this reflect your experience?” Workers reported time pressures and the frequency of experiences of physical violence and unwanted sexual attention, as we explain. We discuss how iteratively mixing qualitative and quantitative methods to triangulate survey and focus group results led to expected data convergence and to unexpected data divergence that revealed a normalized culture of structural violence in long-term care facilities. We discuss how the finding of structural violence emerged and also the deeper meaning, context, and insights resulting from our combined methods.