Show us the financial case for this Douggie!!

Ontario will fund hip and knee replacements at 4 private clinics, health minister says | CBC News The next step in Ontario's plan to expand the number of private clinics offering publicly funded health care will roll out early next year, with four centres offering hip and knee replacements.

Two tier healthcare.
A bloody waste of our tax dollars
to make a few people richer.

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Surprise. Surprise. What a creep.

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner part of hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery | CBC News Jared Kushner's financing role in Paramount's $108 billion US bid for Warner Bros. Discovery injects Trump-family interests into one of the biggest media battles in years, raising concerns over whethe...

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Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender | Tzeporah Berman At a time when the UK and other countries are finally taking bold steps for climate, Canada is preparing a new oil pipeline

Mark Carney built a reputation on linking economic instability with climate inaction. Now he’s made a deal with the very industries driving the crisis.

This isn't Canadian leadership, it’s cowardice disguised as pragmatism.

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Exclusive: Fossil fuel workers won’t be saved by Carney’s oil and gas boosterism A new pipeline won’t lead to new jobs in the oil and gas sector, and the only question for government officials is whether or not to plan for the inevitable energy transition, according to new…

Canada’s oil sector is producing more with fewer workers – 35,000 jobs cut in a decade.

The long-term trend of aggressive cost- and job-cutting in the sector is pause for thought for those considering the economic benefits of new pipelines.

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Yeah I have NO poker face

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 8, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to portray the Russian economy as able to support a protracted war in Ukraine.

"The Kremlin’s recent economic policies indicate that the Russian economy is doing markedly worse than Putin’s statements seek to suggest"
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Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.

Not only are we not appropriately regulating new digital technologies in Canada, the Budget Implementation Bill proposes to allow Ministers to exempt anyone from current laws (except the criminal code) if they think it's in the public interest. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Globe editorial: The questions unanswered in Alberta’s health care procurement controversy The province has called off negotiations for two private surgical facilities, but the mystery surrounding the government’s actions remains

“An RCMP probe is continuing. Mr. Wylie is still labouring to finish his report before next April, when his term expires, since the government has rebuffed his request for an extension.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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More Canadians have a regular family doctor than in 2022, survey suggests | CBC News More Canadians have a family doctor or nurse practitioner compared with three years ago, though satisfaction remains low, a comprehensive new survey suggests.

In Quebec people are on waiting lists 4+ years and are being told they need to wait perhaps years longer

And Legault is driving doctors away!

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American F-35s could be serviced in Quebec starting in 2028-29, says L3Harris | CBC News Companies involved in the F-35 program are actively lobbying the governments of Canada and Quebec to promote potential economic benefits for the country, including a maintenance facility in Mirabel, Q...

How about, NO

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PM2.5=0

CO2 ppm is 780

If my classroom (with PM2.5=0 all day and desktop #CRboxes spread throughout) has 10 students sick, then imagine how bad things are in all other classrooms/schools throughout Ontario.
Our children DO NOT need to get sick to get stronger.
PREVENTING illness with N95s maintains a healthy immune system

Ottawa announces new immigration measures for foreign-trained doctors Ottawa is introducing a new Express Entry category for foreign-trained physicians in an effort to address health workforce challenges in Canada, the federal government announced Monday.

Breaking News:

Ottawa - Federal Government is introducing a new Express Entry category for foreign-trained physicians in an effort to address health workforce challenges in Canada, the federal government announced Monday. #Canada #Healthcare #ForeignTrainedPhysicians

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Thank you, @leahgazan.bsky.social! We need a public option for food and groceries to take on the big chains that are gouging us at the till.

We can never catch up to the fire power of the US

Updated rules for public servants' return to office to come into 'sharper view' in coming weeks Carney says | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will be speaking with public sector unions in the coming weeks to hash out the details of the updated return-to-office rules for federal public servants.

Carney doesn’t seem to understand that many are more productive at home. Also it can improve quality of life if you don’t have to commmute.

It’s clear whose side he is on.
#DisappointedAgain

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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis

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Who is minding the water data centres will use? Around the world, scientists and environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the data centre industry.

Consider:
1) 85% of Canada is considered abnormally dry or in drought conditions
2) Pr Ford‘s recent bills open the door for privatizing water.

PM Carney & Conservative premiers egregious abuse of the resources we need to survive, sets us up for extreme

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Net-zero advisory body members say Ottawa risks more resignations OTTAWA — The four remaining members of Canada's independent net-zero advisory body are calling on Ottawa to change how the group functions, and two of them say it risks more resignations if things don...

Carney's pro-climate 4D chess is so good that it's even fooling his own climate advisors enough for them to resign. Genius!

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Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender | Tzeporah Berman At a time when the UK and other countries are finally taking bold steps for climate, Canada is preparing a new oil pipeline

Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender | Tzeporah Berman #Climate

The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions | CNN Fossil fuel production is still increasing and the United States is in climate denial mode. But, globally, the use of renewable energy is on the rise — and several countries are shifting to solar fast...

Spoiler Alert: Canada is not one of them. At all. Quite the contrary #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.

Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta And trying to break the very idea of Canada

As Donald Trump is doing down south, Markham Hislop explains how Danielle Smith and the UCP are hell-bent on "ungoverning" Alberta.

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Did the climate world misread Carney? Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?

I’m loathe to admit, that I, too, came to the conclusion that we misunderstood PM Carney - his climate change pitches were always about derisking private sector investments.
Until Trump, circa 2025, he wanted to use public $s to derisk the private entities’
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Since his election, “he has capitulated on pretty much every front,” and is now “completely trashing Canada’s climate commitments, and ramming through extractive projects that make a mockery of the commitments to [the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples].”

Something hinkey this way comes The recall campaign against Nathan Neudorf (MLA Lethbridge-East) is off to a strange start. With even stranger rumours and alleged relations.

Shenanigans in Lethbridge East’s recall campaign for Nathan Neudorf

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I don't trust the poll.

Also, experts should be determining whether this is environmentally sound, not a public poll.

We need to go green. This is taking us backwards and risks the BC coast

Mining CEO speaking in Lethbridge Monday about Crowsnest Pass project Residents of southern Alberta will have the chance to speak directly with the proponent of a proposed steelmak...

Hey people who care about Alberta!
If you're in Lethbridge tomorrow, you can give the Northback CEO a piece of your mind.
in person.
11:30
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How The Koch Network Hijacked The War On Covid - EXPOSEDbyCMD As Omicron surges, a shadowy institute filled with fringe doctors appears to be part of big business’ two-year strategy to legitimize attacks on pandemic interventions.

An excellent early article by independent US journalists on the Koch network. Climate change/COVID two sides of the same coin. www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/h...