Will 100 new nursing home inspectors represent a tipping point?
Well that didn’t take long. Last week Health Minister Deb Matthews said she had asked officials to come forward with options on how to improve inspections in the province’s nursing…
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WikiLeaks: Snowden to Greenwald to Guardian
The Verizon phone taps, to Yahoo, Google, Skype, and more all owned by the US Government. These were things suspected by many (thanks to WikiLeaks), and now confirmed by the…
Dark Sky Preserve at Wood Mountain
I found a new way to appreciate my home town through the eyes of astronomers this weekend. Also, I used the astronomers’ telescopes, which is a great way to look…
When Will the CPC Wake Up?
When will Conservatives wake up and get rid of their greatest liability: Stephen Harper?
Home care – it’s critical we get it right this time
Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres could have been very different had events unfolded differently in the early 1990s. At the beginning of that decade home care was considered to have…
Stephen’s even: Brent Rathgeber’s out; Peter Goldring’s back, all’s right with the world
Independent MP Brent Rathgeber takes aim at Tory opacity. Now that he’s incurred the PM’s wrath, though, it’s not so likely they’ll let him dress up as a sailor in…
Rathgerber Out of the Strong, Stable, National, Majority, Conservative Government
Who could forget Harper’s “strong, stable” majority comment during his victory speech in 2011 after his party swept to surprise power on a wave of election fraud supporting his party?…
Matthews seeks to enhance nursing home inspections – how about enough inspectors to get the job done?
For more than 30 minutes a resident of The Wexford went on a rampage, roaming the halls of the Scarborough long-term care facility, battering one woman before leaving his own…
Yes, We Have No Compensation…..
WorkSafeBC uses questionable methods to deny claim CBC News Posted: Jun 4, 2013 5:52 AM PT Last Updated: Jun 5, 2013 6:18 AM PT This gentleman is very lucky to…
“I fear we have morphed into what we once mocked”
After quitting the Tory caucus, MP Brent Rathgeber pens one of the most devastating and pointed critiques of the Harper government I have ever seen. One is left wondering how…
Front line heroes
It was a tremendously sad day last Friday when the world learned that four crew members – two pilots and two paramedics – lost their lives while en route to…
Aborted Sudbury plan expected ALC patients to pick up tab for convalescent care
The Ontario government has always maintained that getting alternative level of care patients out of hospital is so much more cost-effective than having costly beds tied up with patients who…
Credit, Where Not Due, Accomplishes More
If you don’t care who gets the credit for something, you can accomplish more. That works in both directions. You can pass an idea along without asking for anything in…
Diluted chemo drug scandal — why was this ever contracted out?
It looked for a while that Marchese Hospital Solutions’ explanation for the diluted chemotherapy drug bags may have had legs, suggesting there was miscommunication between hospital purchasing agent Medbuy and…
End Point
If we pass the point of no return, we will have runaway global warming and the end point is human extinction. I don’t think people quite get that yet. I…
ConCalls: Working Closely With Election Fraud #cdnpoli
Two more Conservative MPs need to be removed from the House for election overspending. That’s what Elections Canada has said, but the Speaker of the House disagrees. In an application…
ConCalls: Yep, Still Defrauded #RoboCon
*Canada: 0 Days Without Election Fraud* You can start at the beginning in great detail… Or you can jump to the end of the beginning. You can draw conclusions so…
Bike Derangement Syndrome at Wall Street Journal
If you’re suffering from low blood pressure, I have the treatment: WSJ hack interviews an editorial board nutcase Dorothy who says among other things: “Look, I represent the majority of…
Rethinking class: from recomposition to counterpower – Paul Bowman
http://libcom.org/library/rethinking-class-recomposition-counterpower on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/rethinking-class-from-recomposition-to-counterpower-paul-bowman/
Health care sustainability: evidence shows this debate should have been long over
Over the weekend CPAC was playing excerpts from two conferences – one on drug coverage the other on health care sustainability. The first, Rethinking Drug Coverage, was held in Ottawa…