Bursa – and not the city in Turkey!
The ever-increasing pain I have experienced recently now has a name – bursitis. It follows the hip-femur repairs in 2003 and from years of strain on my minimal maximus –…
Health Care
"The best choice for Ontario’s challenges"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/dalton-mcguintys-liberals-the-best-choice-for-ontarios-challenges/article2188213/That's what The Globe & Mail says Dalton McGuinty's Ontario Liberal team is in this election. With the global e...
Student Debt Rising Amongst New Physicians
Newly-released data indicate that student debt is rising amongst new physicians in Canada. In 2010, 23 percent of medical residents surveyed estimated having more than $120,000 in education-related debt upon…
Outasite! Supreme Court bludgeons Con ideology with reality.
One of the few benefits of not having any political power is that you get to sit back and watch the majority power fall all over its own ideology and…
Can we focus on saving lives now?
InSite works. Despite Conservative tough dumb-on-crime rhetoric, allowing people a clean and safe place to use the drugs they would anyway grants them respect, dignity, and a way out of…
Surprised Stevie Hasn’t Scolded Bratty Brad For His Tantrum? I’m Not
Harpercon MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt and Fetus Fetishist extraordinaire, Brad Trost is having a temper tantrum as of late: Late in the afternoon of Thursday, September 22nd, I received a phone…
Christine Elliott shy on issue of Health Care Accessibility
From The Elizabeth Roy Chronicle WHITBY – OSHAWA – In reaction to the case of Whitby paediatrician Dr. Karen Dockrill, Christine Elliott has left Whitby-Oshawa constituents confused about her stance…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon consumption.- John Cole points to a study comparing economic choices between psychopaths and stock traders - with even more disturbing results than one might expect:According…
Leadership on Healthcare
From a PC government that closed dozens of hospitals (with Tim Hudak personally playing a role as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health) and didn't even bother tracking wait…
On Allegations of Patient Abuse at St. Joseph’s
This story concerning alleged abuse of a senior at St. Joseph’s Health Care Centre (and yes, I know “alleged” is a weasel word) has been making the rounds in the…
The Ontario NDP Platform
Pollsters tell us that Ontario’s New Democrats may double their seat total in next month’s provincial election. It’s also entirely conceivable that they could be part of a coalition government…
McGuinty Proposes Undergraduate Tuition Grant
An Ontario election is slated for October 6, and the reigning Liberal Party will attempt to pull off a third consecutive majority government. In that vein, the Liberals have recently…
My journey with AIDS…and more! 2011-09-08 20:29:15
This post serves as a reminder of what has ailed me in recent days. On the day of Jack Layton’s funeral I spent an inordinate amount of time on my…
Editors of Sun Media Would Like To Rename Labour Day–After a Union Buster–Quelle Surprise!
Well, Boys ‘n’ girls, you had to know that was coming. The editors don’t like unions or the working class for that matter. In fact, they sooo despise them, that…
kenney’s canada: paralyzed woman to lose independence if caregivers are deported
Just another story of more undeserving immigrants trying to sneak into the promised land. This one is a particularly sneaky ploy. Here's how you do it.First, emigrate to Canada, a…
Sad Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Who in the world could possibly be craven enough to fight for the tobacco lobby and against healthier food when public health is at stake? Stephen Harper's Conservative government, that's…
Is Curing Cancer Bad For Business?
Ten years ago when the first full human genome was sequenced after a mammoth 14-year effort and a $3 billion effort, we were promised a bounty of cures for the…
On uniformity
While there's ample reason to be skeptical about how the Cons plan to handle health care over the next few years, let's note at least one indication that things could…
Liberals built this!
www.liberalsbuiltthis.ca Had a great time this weekend taking part in the province wide Ontario Young Liberal blitz showing the great investments that the Ontario Liberal Party has made in families…
Deep thought
The Conservatives might stand a better chance being taken seriously in talking about health-care accountability if they hadn't been the ones to end it.