health care – Tasha Kheiriddin

Canadians shouldn’t be dying because of health-care ideology

January 18, 2023January 17, 2023Tasha KheiriddinLeave a comment

Canadian health care is in crisis. The patient isn’t just sick; she is on life support, barely hanging on. Staffing shortages and treatment delays produced by the pandemic have proved the final straw, overwhelming a system in decline for decades. Starved of money, innovation and competition, it has effectively collapsed, and the results are...

Danielle Smith gets in the way of health reform

November 23, 2022November 22, 2022Tasha KheiriddinLeave a comment

For political commentators, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is the gift that keeps on giving. Whether it’s the war in Ukraine, the oppression of the unvaccinated, or the sacking of Alberta’s entire health services board, every time Smith takes the podium, she says or does something that prompts a slew of outrage — and makes...

AstraZeneca advice is another in Canada’s long list of pandemic flip-flops

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021Tasha KheiriddinLeave a comment

Canada’s public health officials made a shocking number of mistakes. Poor advice on the AstraZeneca vaccine is but the latest one....

An overstuffed agenda and a steep learning curve: Trudeau in 2016

December 13, 2016December 13, 2016Tasha KheiriddinLeave a comment

He’ll spend much of 2017 just catching up with the previous year’s promises In a year-end press conference Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reflected on the highs and lows of governing the nation in 2016. For Trudeau, the lowest point was the killings of Canadian hostages John Ridsdel and Robert Hall, two businessmen who...