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Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Deane Report: Which came first, the underfunding or the internal conflict?
How much of a factor is underfunding to the working relationships within a public hospital? What is the impact of resulting cuts on the public’s perception and trust? In July Ken Deane’s final report was submitted to Health Minister Deb … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: How we die in Canada
Statistics Canada maintains a snapshot of how Canadians die. The chart not only gives an indication of how nearly a quarter million of us cast off this mortal coil each year, but suggests where we are making progress and where … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Looking upstream: Law Commission report a step in the right direction
If Ontario really wants to look at upstream investments to improve population health, it may want to pay attention to an unlikely source – the Law Commission of Ontario. In August the LCO issued an interim report on vulnerable workers … Continue reading →
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72, game 2: Redemption, for a while, in Toronto.
Game 2: Toronto, Sept. 4, 1972 In the two days after the Mauling in Montreal, Canada was in a deep, dark, depressed funk. The loss to the Soviets was so surprising, so shocking, and so complete, that the entire country had a black cloud hovering over it from coast-to-coast. The
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: Is WiFi harmful? More junk science
I just had to purchase a new WiFi router for home, so the safety of wireless signals was in the back of my mind recently again. Not in that I am terribly concerned, but since there’s no “conclusive” answer yet I do tend to use wired Ethernet when possible/convenient, just
Continue readingLeft Over: The Real Cost of Education
B.C. students warned to stick to budgets Today in the CBC media, there’s an article admonishing students to stick to their tight budgets…this of course presupposes that students even have a clue what a “budget” is, never mind how to stick to one… The author cites the cost of an
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Open Possibilities
Fourteen years ago last night I was laying in a new bed, on my own as an adult in the wider world for the first time. Besides my worry and wonder about the coming school year was my nostalgia and longing for the previous Summer months when my Grandpa was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #ConAir: RCMP Grounds Plane Critical of Harper
WARNING: Strong language and feelings ahead. Canadian democracy is at risk, so you’re damned right I’m worked up: Okay, our country has taken a new turn for the worse this morning, after our national police force has apparently violated our constitution to ground a banner-carrying plane circling Ottawa, only 1.5
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Anti-Gay Group Says Equal Marriage Leads To Abortion
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), an anti-choice and anti-gay lobby group based in the UK, has distributed fliers suggesting that legal same-sex marriage will lead to an increased number of abortions. “Legalised same-sex marriage will increase confusion about what it means to be a man or
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Run from Hit & Run
If you have an option to not see “Hit & Run” [4/10], take it. If I’d written this review last night, I might have given it a 5 and said it could be worth rewatching, but thinking about it a bit more it’s not really worth the time. There are
Continue readingIn This Corner: Canada-Russia ’72. Why it mattered.
It’s 40 years ago today that Canada and Russia faced off in Montreal to start the most gut wrenching, confidence shattering, depressing and joyous sporting even in Canadian history, and one of the most epic in the history of sports anywhere (you heard me, Super Bowls and World Series’). It
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: It May Not Be Over, But It’s Forked #RoboCon
Stick a fork in it, Elections Canada is done like dinner. They’ve been sitting on evidence that ties Prescott to Poutine, and have known since at least May, 2012. Why they are not aggressively pursuing this investigation, when it’s at the heart of a national democratic crisis, is anyone’s guess.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Hayek and Contemporary Neo Liberalism
In the spirit of “know thy enemy”, I recently read Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. (Note to the anxious – I survived the experience, and remain a convinced left Keynesian democratic socialist.) Hayek is, of course, the totemic figure of neo liberalism who fought Keynes and Keynesian economics in the
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: What does Dalton McGuinty have against physiotherapists?
In 2005 the Ontario government partially delisted physiotherapy, limiting public coverage to Ontarians who are age 19 and younger or 65 and older, to those receiving Ontario Disability Support or Family works, or to anyone who has spent at least a … Continue reading →
Continue readingLeft Over: Substance or Celeb?
In HuffPost Canada today, a discussion of JT possibly running (yet another one) complete with treacly compliments from our Libera and Con controlled Press… that makes Justin Trudeau sound more celeb than wise politico…which makes lots of sense… Justin Trudeau Leadership Bid: Warren Kinsella Says He’s Running Ah, the Press,
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Picket outside Oshawa Health Centre clinic brings partial answers
Picketing OPSEU members got a partial result for their efforts outside the Oshawa Health Centre on August 27. Medical office assistants at the Oshawa Health Centre were calling for the medical clinic’s owner to reveal his plans for the future … Continue reading →
Continue readinggritchik: Vaughan candidate selling advertising space on campaign lit
I have never seen anything like this. Vaughan candidate, Tony Genco, is handing out campaign literature hawking advertising opportunities. It raises many questions, not the least of which being whether this is even allowed under elections law. But it does appear that the Genco campaign may be hard up for
Continue readinggritchik: Vaughan candidate selling advertising space on campaign lit
I have never seen anything like this. Vaughan candidate, Tony Genco, is handing out campaign literature hawking advertising opportunities. It raises many questions, not the least of which being whether this is even allowed under elections law. But it does appear that the Genco campaign may be hard up for
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