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...
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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...
READ MOREAstraZeneca advice is another in Canada’s long list of pandemic flip-flops
Canada’s public health officials made a shocking number of mistakes. Poor advice on the AstraZeneca vaccine is but the latest one....
READ MOREAn overstuffed agenda and a steep learning curve: Trudeau in 2016
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...
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