James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?
Joined Nov 2022
Step 1: Give tax money to companies owned by Ford’s buddies.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Shorter wait times.
https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-releases-3-step-plan-to-invest-in-for-profit-care-to-reduce-surgical-backlog-1.6232044
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It's not whether it's possible to save our future. It is. The question is do we want to. That's what remains to be seen. Less about climate science or technology & more about sociology & unfortunately politics, with an economic system that rewards apathy & making things worse.
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#JustTransition #abpoli #ableg #yyc #cdnpoli #Climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCorps #ClimateCorpsAB #JustTransitionAB #EnergyTransition
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A reminder that former Ontario #Conservative Premier Mike Harris is raking in profits off both Seniors Long Term Care residences and from his wife’s company 'Nurse Next Door', an agency supplying temporary, low paid, no benefit nursing and PSW support workers to LTC and hospitals.
The for-profit nursing agency charges the govt a higher fee to provide healthcare workers than the govt would pay out in wages for hospital-employed staff.
#onpoli #Ontario #healthcare #privatization
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If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but
The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders
The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders
The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders
The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders
Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services
Capitalism is a disease
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The fact that the Ontario government watched our public healthcare system collapse due to underfunding...but set aside public funding just so they could invest in private for-profit healthcare…tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
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They say of carbon capture and storage "The technology exists", but it doesn't, and won't, exist at anything remotely approaching the scale of the task to be done. The pretence and wishful thinking involved in CCS promotion will be our undoing. We really do have to stop burning carbon and go #FlameFree to mitigate the #ClimateCrisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/12/fossil-fuel-producers-must-be-forced-to-take-back-carbon-say-scientists
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Crazy!
A 150 ft. Iceberg passing through Iceberg Alley near Twillingate, #Newfoundland, #Canada. A great view for your morning coffee.
More images/info on Iceberg Alley: https://bit.ly/3HhjdcX
Saw a sign out of the corner of my eye and thought it said “Crispy’s Grill and Pet Shop”. It wasn’t that, but there would be a certain amount of synergy in that operation.
The fare card reader in the bus was broken again. Boy, if I had three dollars and seventy cents for every time that happened…
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Imagine going to work as a nurse in Ontario, knowing fully well that Doug Ford is fighting nurses in court! Please take a minute to reflect on this. You'll understand why nurses are just done.
Doug Ford will never do this to police officers or other male-dominated professions.
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Support For Expanding (X) Energy Source:
Solar: 81% (-3)
Wind: 74% (-3)
Nuclear: 57% (+6)
Oil/Gas: 50% (+1)
Fracking: 31% (+3)
Coal: 19% (-)
Angus Reid / December 3, 2022 / n=5030 / Online
(% Change With June 2021)
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Official Ford government spokesperson when asked about the report:
RT @isaaccallan@twitter.com
NEW: The province is refusing to release the number of health-care workers it needs, saying that releasing the information could damage Ontario's economy.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9385691/numbers-health-workers-ontario-withheld/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/isaaccallan/status/1613141223770042371
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"The province is refusing to release the number of health-care workers it needs, saying that releasing the information could damage Ontario's economy."
We can't handle the truth because the truth is too damaging.
Well. That says a lot right there don't it?
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?
Joined Nov 2022
