I’m Drilled On Mars
I’m excited to learn that my name is selected as a site on Mars. I am unable to easily find which John Klein it’s really named after, but I’ll take…
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What a load of crap
I know, and like, Stephen Maher. He is a solid reporter who refuses to give up when he’s found a story that needs to be told. This government – the…
Marc Garneau: “This isn’t working”
I received a message* from Marc Garneau yesterday about his proposals to reform the party and the democratic processes thereof. It was headed “This isn’t working”, which I thought was…
Frail, often elderly, and with nowhere to go
Nobody believes a hospital ward is a long-term solution for patients who have completed their acute care treatment but due to their medical frailty are unable to go home without…
Underwhelmed – First initiatives around seniors strategy more politics than transformation
Yesterday Health Minister Deb Matthews announced the first specific initiatives following the release of Dr. Samir Sinha’s summary of recommendations for Ontario’s Senior Strategy. You may have missed the headlines…
The Harper Government: Losers
As in, they lose the personal information of Canadians over and over again. As one of this country’s many student loan borrowers, now they may have lost mine. I’ll keep…
Sudbury and North Bay: Layoff a professional, hire a professional
Cuts to nursing positions in Southern Ontario do apparently have a silver lining. Sudbury’s Health Sciences North says hard times for health care workers in the south are solving some…
Is there a Doctor in the house?
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Required reading: Monbiot on the failure of NeoLiberalism
You’ve got to love George Monbiot, the UK author, journalist and activist. His engaging BLOG is high on our list of regular must-reads. This is how George describes his role:…
ConCalls: Another Poutine Style Recording in #RoboCon
Elections Canada may be allowing the Conservative Party to set the glacial pace of the criminal investigation across Canada into illegal election robocalls that misdirected and harassed electors. May be?…
Psychiatric Hospitals: The food is terrible… and such small portions
The nurse thought it was a mistake. A large patient at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences was given a plate with six pieces of ravioli on it as…
Men Aquitted For Ordering Gay Drink
Two Cameroon men who were sentenced to five years in prison for “looking gay” after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream have been acquitted of the charges by an appeals court. The…
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog…
OLPLDR
If today is LEM day, can I finally expect to not be voicedropped by six candidates a day? I mean, the movie voiceover guy is nice and everything, but I…
Federal government compromises the safety of more than a half million Canadians
I guess I’ll call and find out if I’m one of them. Stay tuned. Thanks for nothing, Harper.
Hard Drive with Student Loan borrowers Personal Info Went Missing
The federal government has called in the RCMP to investigate what could be one of the largest privacy lapses in Canadian history, after losing a non-encrypted external hard drive containing…
#IdleNoMore University of Regina Round Dance
Cadmus Delorme started off the speaking without a mic (and was audible!). Here he is with some amplification. Let’s amplify his message over the Internet, also. The noon hour finished…
Can David Bertschi Please Stay Positive?
Running for leader when you have no chance to win is one thing, but attacking Trudeau’s family is another. For a campaign “of ideas,” Bertchi certainly has a lot of…
Climate Change Explained
By Bob McDonald, Quirks & Quarks The end of the Kyoto Protocol, and our inability to do something about rising carbon emissions, is like arguing over rising water in the…
Canadians paying billions more for drugs without Pharmacare
UBC professor Steve Morgan has been writing a series of excellent BLOGs on Healthy Debate this month about the need for Pharmacare in Canada. As Morgan stated last November, our…