This and that for your Tuesday reading.- With health care once again receiving plenty of attention on the U.S. political scene thanks to the Republicans’ plan to dismantle publicly-funded Medicare, the differences between Canada and the U.S. are once a…
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The Progressive Economics Forum: The Town Without Poverty
A guest post from Richard Pereira, a recent winner of the PEF Essay Contest… – Canadian Economics Association – The Town Without Poverty There were hundreds of speakers at this year’s CEA conference in Ottawa. About a dozen of these were designated “Special Lectures/Conférences spéciales” and among them were Jack Mintz on “The GST After […]
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. health care
Tim Hudak on health care, yesterday:”I know how important our health services truly are…healthcare will be our top funding priority”That’s interesting, but let’s take a look at what Mike Harris had to say about health care spending in 1995 before he …
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Saving the World from Terrorist Breastfeeding Toddlers [UPDATED]
An Atlanta, Georgia suburb is fighting one of the most pressing causes of our era — children who breastfeed past twenty-four months. Because breastfeeding after the age of two will damage human society beyond repair: On Monday night, Forest Park passed a public indecency ordinance to prevent public nudity. Previously, the city only had a […]
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: How to Eat in the Most Obese County in the United States
Let’s start with an appetizer: One thing you need to know before going to the Mississippi Delta is what a Kool-Aid pickle is — and how to make it. 1. Pour pickle juice from a jar of pickles into a bowl. 2. Add Kool-Aid to pickle juice. 3. Pour pickle juice back over pickles. 4. […]
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Updated, newer ad on Harper’s comments on healthcare
I think they may have preferred sticking with the original.{Video by LiberalVideo}Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Updated, newer ad on Harper’s comments on healthcare
I think they may have preferred sticking with the original. {Video by LiberalVideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Updated, newer ad on Harper’s comments on healthcare
I think they may have preferred sticking with the original. {Video by LiberalVideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: What’s at stake – The Hard Hitting Liberal Ad
The ad that has the Conservatives freaking out, whining all over the place, showing they can dish it but can’t take it.{Video by liberalvideo}Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: What’s at stake – The Hard Hitting Liberal Ad
The ad that has the Conservatives freaking out, whining all over the place, showing they can dish it but can’t take it. {Video by liberalvideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: What’s at stake – The Hard Hitting Liberal Ad
The ad that has the Conservatives freaking out, whining all over the place, showing they can dish it but can’t take it. {Video by liberalvideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingCons wait six days to respond to LPC health care ad
Either their quick response machine is broken, and the CPC war room is a myth, or they really, really don’t want to talk about health care during this election. Why not? Perhaps it’s because of Stephen Harper’s record on health care:
In the Eng…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Rant For Canada
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Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Debate: Canadian Values Win
The most interesting thing I noticed about the debate was where all the leaders, or at least all of the federalist leaders, agreed. These were on what I would consider to be the most basic of Canadian values, but values that many of us suspect are not …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: PC positions on health care are cartoonish
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11214013/Little cartoon I made showing Tim Hudak’s misadventures and flip-flops on public health care. Remember, “everything is on the table”!
Continue readingFive of Five: Holy Biased Poll
I realize website polls are primarily for entertainment and shouldn’t be taken seriously, especially not on a hyper-conservative radio site.But this poll really stuck out as having a totally meaningless, poorly worded and biased set of choices.There is…
Continue readingFive of Five: Canadian Veterans National Day of Protest – Calgary Alberta
(a lot of links below, hope they all work …)I attended the Canadian Veterans National Day of Protest this morning in Calgary. It was a good event on an unusually warm November day. I was disappointed that more Calgarians did not come out for this. Af…
Continue readingFive of Five: Health Care WAP Style.
Here’s a podcast of CBC Calgary’s noon hour show today, featuring Danielle Smith talking about the Alberta Health Care system. It starts at around 25:40. Her critiques of the existing system are mostly right on. Everyone knows that the Stelmach gover…
Continue readingYour Alberta Health Act: Opening Doors for Private Healthcare.
“We’d be a lot better off if we had funding follow the patient”
The comment hung in the air, a pinata, colorful, attention seeking, begging for a reaction.
I figured I would have to swing at it, or at least give it a poke.
I tapped the edge, “Hmmm, …
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Further to my post on private health care…
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