The Growing ‘Loopholes’ Allowing Private Care in Canada’s Staunchly Universal System
It is true. Wait a year for an MRI in the public system or you have at least two local choices for one within a week or so in Calgary, but the costs I am told can be from $300 to 730.
How can this be a bad thing? Unions, plus bureaucratic empire building and featherbedding , and incursions by Big Pharma, have immobilzed and de-incentivized the public sytem to where it is likely killing as many as it saves, and making life miserable for people on waiting lists. .
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/analysis-the-loopholes-that-allow-private-health-care-in-canada-5682783?utm_source=left-sharing-widget-v1&utm_medium=copyLink
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
