Stephen Harper’s Sinister Plan to Kill Our Medicare System
Over the years I have written dozens and dozens of posts about the way Stephen Harper is planning to slowly strangle our precious medicare system.This one being the latest.And the…
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Stephen Harper and the Shabby Treatment of Our Seniors
It was just a small story but it really bothered me. And it made me fear for this country's future.For just like I can't stand the way the brutish Harperite…
What keeps Canada together?
The above is the title of a survey commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies and carried out by Leger Marketing earlier this year. The answer to what unites the…
Are the Hudak Cons Trying to Steal the Ontario Election?
I guess it makes sense. Tim Hudak is incapable of coming up with an original idea, for obvious reasons.So he is always borrowing them from others.He borrowed his economic platform…
Stephen Harper and the Stealthy War on Medicare
On Monday the Health Accord between the provinces and the federal government will expire.There will be no longer be a signed agreement to enforce the five principles of the Canada…
Stephen Harper and the War on Medicare Continued
As you probably know, there is nothing I fear more than what Stephen Harper is planning to do to our precious medicare system.Because he has always hated it, it represents…
Stephen Harper and the Con War on Medicare
He has waited a long time to make his move. From the day he was first elected with the support of a group that was founded to kill medicare.He had…
Obamacare, the Koch Brothers, and the Harper Cons
It's a frightening and truly disturbing sight. The Republicans in the House of Representatives threatening to shut down the American government. Again. With one vote on Friday, the Republican-led House…
The covert, corporate attacks against Canada’s healthcare system
Opponents of equitable, universal healthcare are using a corporate “communications” strategy known as Fear Uncertainty Doubt (FUD) to smear Canada’s “signature” social program, Medicare. The post The covert, corporate attacks…
A Timely Message Important To Everyone
The video that follows was made by Canadian Doctors For Medicare, who are advocating for a national pharmacare program, something that a country as rich as ours could well-afford. It…
Stephen Harper’s Sneaky Assault on Medicare
It may seem like just another federal-provincial disagreement, another argument in a fractious country.But there are very good reasons the premiers are united in opposing Stephen Harper's job training plan.…
Immigrants heavily subsidize Medicare’s Trust Fund: says study
Harvard Medical School and Hunter College School of Public Health researchers find immigrants generated surplus contributions of $115.2 billion in 2002-2009, $13.8 billion in 2009, and actually subsidize the health…
Stephen Harper Begins his Assault on Medicare
He has always wanted to strangle it. He has had to restrain himself for so long. From the moment he entered politics, with the support of an organization that was…
The Great Con War on Crime and Medicare
Oh no. Remember how I said the other night that Jimbo Flaherty probably hated having to call his new budget Porky Action Plan 2013?Because there couldn't be a worse way…
The Cons and the Day of Infamy
It seemed like just another day in the Great Frozen North.A day when Canada looked liked it always does at this time of the year. But then I remembered it…
Douglas, Deng and Diocletian
(originally written May 21, 2012. Part of Great Upload of 2013.) Tommy Douglas I read a bio of Tommy Douglas recently, figuring as a guy with sinister leanings (sinister in…