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DIY-HP-LED
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DIY-HP-LED
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OldMedUser
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We have our new unelected premier here trying to switch the province over to US style medical care and toss out the RCMP in favour of her own. Just continuing what her predecessor started but more aggressively by firing the Alberta Health board and replacing it with one hand-picked ass kisser.
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… with all the abundant evidence of how bad the system is in US, if you are not monied?We have our new unelected premier here trying to switch the province over to US style medical care and toss out the RCMP in favour of her own. Just continuing what her predecessor started but more aggressively by firing the Alberta Health board and replacing it with one hand-picked ass kisser.
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Damned insurers.
OldMedUser
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If it is the insurers it's in cahoots with the conservative gov't here. Jason Kenney, the one who resigned after a vote of confidence from his own party members only got him 51.5%, started trashing our medical system by first tearing up the previous contract with doctors which had a lot like the two I'd been seeing for a few years pick up and move to greener pastures. Then he attacked nurses by limiting raises and even trying to claw some back but that didn't fly. Still with the Covid burnout and super low moral many left as well.
Kenney even closed the new superlab that was millions into completion and farmed out hospital tests to private labs and also cleaning contracts for the hospitals. Relatives of his got some of those contracts so that's being looked into.
He conned his way to winning in the first place so the RCMP started an investigation that almost 4 years later has not got anywhere but like tRump he's started so many other fires elsewhere that he's hoping everybody has forgotten about that. I sure haven't.
Election next May so with any luck we'll get the NDP back for a couple of terms to try to fix this but this is Texas north so not holding my breath.
VOTE THEM OUT!
DIY-HP-LED
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Healthcare is a third rail in Canadian politics, touching it usually means being fried at the polls. Looks like it might be back to Albertastan and SOCIALISM!If it is the insurers it's in cahoots with the conservative gov't here. Jason Kenney, the one who resigned after a vote of confidence from his own party members only got him 51.5%, started trashing our medical system by first tearing up the previous contract with doctors which had a lot like the two I'd been seeing for a few years pick up and move to greener pastures. Then he attacked nurses by limiting raises and even trying to claw some back but that didn't fly. Still with the Covid burnout and super low moral many left as well.
Kenney even closed the new superlab that was millions into completion and farmed out hospital tests to private labs and also cleaning contracts for the hospitals. Relatives of his got some of those contracts so that's being looked into.
He conned his way to winning in the first place so the RCMP started an investigation that almost 4 years later has not got anywhere but like tRump he's started so many other fires elsewhere that he's hoping everybody has forgotten about that. I sure haven't.
Election next May so with any luck we'll get the NDP back for a couple of terms to try to fix this but this is Texas north so not holding my breath.
VOTE THEM OUT!
Even though the price of gas and diesel is high, the price of oil is not that high per barrel. With the opening of new sources of supply and the introduction of EVs over the next couple of decades Alberta better get used to the smell of cow shit. Climate change might also push desert conditions north, so maybe no cows either. The tar sands are the next coal and will end up left in the ground, there won't be much new investment if there is a move green. If deep geothermal is found successful over the next half a dozen years, it will finish natural gas and most oil production, oil companies will shift focus and leverage their knowledge and expertise to get in on the new energy business. Alberta depends on oil and that makes it vulnerable to global, political, environmental and technological forces.
HGCC
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It's poutine and Tim's dammit! All the time.
Doug ford's a crappy dude, but reminds me so much of Chris Farley I can't be mad. I have heard of the hijinx forever (am probably lumping both brothers together) but he seems to keep getting elected. Is he just riding on his crackhead brothers coattails?
Good lord...so people want our stupid bullshit healthcare system? The fucks wrong with them. I know yall got diabetes. That should make him lose just right off the bat.
CunningCanuk
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I think we had something like 35% of eligible voters actually vote in the last provincial election. A friend of ours recently ran for city council and we were quite active in helping her with canvassing. An uncomfortably large amount of people I spoke to said they weren’t going to bother voting. I told them you can vote right now, on your phone, it only takes a few minutes and you can vote on your couch! Some did but many still didn’t.
The people of Ontario get everything they deserve if they are too lazy to vote.
DIY-HP-LED
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When they whine about DoFo the first question should be, did you vote? If not, then STFU and go carry a sign in the street like a loser, because you aren't sitting at the table of power, lobbyist and rich friends have taken your chair.
CunningCanuk
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It has an impact on all of us, even those who take our civic duty seriously. I think Australia has the right idea.
If we had mandatory voting here, Doug Ford would be assistant manager of a bowling alley in Scarborough.
You just burst my Canadian bubble.
That was my question..Canadians don't get to vote..?
CunningCanuk
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The easily duped also vote. Remember? trump?
Also you incorrectly assume the educated and informed always vote.
Ozumoz66
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DIY-HP-LED
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I like the idea as of part of your tax refund, if you vote, you pick up a check for $200 right at the poll or if ya phone it in, they credit your bank account or send a check in the mail. It would encourage the poor and youth to vote, as well as the poor elderly. If you are well off enough not to worry about the money, then don't bother to vote. That would be the most dangerous voting system of all to them.
CunningCanuk
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I think voting should be easy and mandatory. It’s not an unreasonable expectation for citizens living in a democratic society.
Dang do I miss Chris Farley.