Canadian Healthcare is NOT Underfunded
Many Canadians are convinced that the shortcomings of our healthcare system are primarily – if not solely - due to insufficient funding. But official data shows that this is not…
Canada’s Healthcare Spending Drives Poverty
In 46 years, our healthcare spending went up from $1 out of every $14.29 of GDP to $ 1 out of every $7.87 of GDP. This means we have 45%…
Pushing Ahead On Grassy Narrows
In 6 months+ of my pushing on the issue, Ford gov’t & opposition MPP’s have evinced no interest in implementing the mercury remediation plan at Grassy Narrows. Here’s my proposal…
The Covid Carousel
Today’s announcement of re-imposition of various restrictions by the Ontario government feels like a carousel ride – no matter how much you ‘move forward’, you end up in the same…
Transition Troubles
If past is any guide, humans will transition from fossil fuels as the main source of energy at some point. But the current push for transition suffers from 4 crucial…
Delayed Delivery
The foundational defect in Canada’s universal healthcare system is that its delivery is determined by an administrative process that is singularly focused on bureaucratic procedure, at the expense of actual…
Bitter Pills
In 2019, some 14.5% of Canadians did not have a family doctor. The widely held belief that Canada has ‘the best healthcare in the world’ is divorced from reality. Quality…
Should Politicians Block Canadians on Social Media?
Well over a decade after its birth, social media remains a digital Wild West. The modern stage of democracy demands that there should be rules around elected representatives blocking citizens…
Shrinking Violets
Our media regales in projecting POC as hopelessly vulnerable to aggression by white people. This erodes qualities like self-confidence, resilience and amicability, which, in turn, threaten to make Canada a…
Canada’s Healthcare Crisis
Between 1970 & 2019, the number of hospital beds per 1,000 people in Canada went down from 7.0 to 2.5. Between 1993 and 2019, the wait time for treatment by…