“Check your privilege” meme and why it is ineffective
Okay, this has been bothering me ENORMOUSLY. I talk about racism a LOT. I also blog a lot. For the entire duration of my social justice life I have never
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Peaceful Revolution by Dyer – Deadblog
The world was about 20% democratic and 80% Dictatorship, and if China becomes a democracy that will have flipped in only 50 years. Arab world is becoming democratic too. In…
CSEC Letter from Wayne Easter Liberal MP
Last week I sent a letter to Justin Trudeau and Liberal MP Wayne Easter expressing support the Liberal bill that would impose parliamentary oversight over CSEC. Here is Mr Easter’s…
Bob Rae asks why Health Canada is taking so long to say no to paid plasma donations
In 2013 Health Canada held a by-invitation-only roundtable on the issue of paid plasma donations following our efforts to raise concerns over the application by the private Canadian Plasma Resources…
CCACs not entirely to blame for high home care administrative costs
What to do with the Community Care Access Centres? Yesterday’s Toronto Star column by Bob Hepburn suggests we should roll them into the Local Health Integration Networks and send the…
CCAC CEOs may not have enjoyed their cornflakes this morning
You would think the Community Care Access Centres would tread a little carefully these days. The Tories want to get rid of them. The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario would…
Trucks Suck
We need new rules for commercial truck traffic on 400-series highways. Too many accidents, too many deaths and too much cost are passed to the public as a result of…
ConCalls: Fair Election Fraud Act #elxnfraud #cdnpoli
Conservative media pundits are happy to be able to say “fair” and “election” in the same sentence as “Conservative”, because saying “fraud” was getting old even 2 years ago. @kateheartfield…
Picard blames health professionals for slow pace of “reform”
How can we improve Canada’s health system? Blaming the professionals who deliver care defies logic. You may be very surprised to learn that one prominent journalist says the biggest obstacles…
NHH certified diabetes educators really do exist despite hospital denials
It’s one thing not to be acknowledged for the work you do. It’s quite another when your hospital says you don’t do that work at all. Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH)…
The real deficit and the phoney one
Economist Hugh Mackenzie has written two recent BLOG posts on the phoney deficit and the real one — the deficit in public services Ontarians rely upon. The Behind The Numbers…
That Old Joke
How can you tell a spy is lying to Parliament? Their lips are moving. Or at least I’d assume they were moving while he was telling us that they didn’t…
John Tory thinks this is the reason women get paid less than men
PressProgress refers to John Tory as an electoral “serial loser.” Sounds about right. Today, Tory opined as to why women earn less than men. I, for one, was surprised to…
OANHSS calls for $135.4 million to cope with aggressive behaviours in Ontario’s nursing homes
Watching a sampling of presentations to the province’s all-party standing committee looking at the upcoming spring budget, many organizations are couching their language in the context of ongoing fiscal restraint.…
Tarnishing the OC
“Lord” Black is a criminal. "Honours do not make a man" ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html… insists the man who renounced Canadian citizenship to become a "Lord." OK, then.— CC (@canadiancynic) February 03, 2014…
Are we just self-appointed hall monitors?
It takes years of writing a blog to realize what you are really doing. You do not want to be a nag, but you are. You are not just a…
Laptop Repair Time
I spent Saturday opening up an Acer Travelmate 7730 and got the logicboard out to confirm the power jack is pushed in. The pin at the back is clearly curved…
Harper Government Is a “Porn Spy”
The last Parl. Sec. for Stephen Harper is being charged with election fraud. The present one isn’t a bright bulb either. Harper govt's response to our new CBC story RT…
Social Determinants: $11 an hour simply not enough
As health care providers news of the increase in minimum wage is important – as we stated in 2013, poverty is the second leading cause of death in this country.…