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…
Fruits Of Labour
Ontario NDP’s proposal to increase minimum wage to $20/Hour reignites the perennially unsettled debate about the impact of such increases on employment. Unfortunately, we don’t have the required data to…
Boosting Danger
In the backdrop of periodic booster shots, making everyone’s employment conditional to proof of their vaccination status creates a grave danger to national security. Our authorities & commentariat are blissfully…
Word Games
It is normally a clear indication that a problem has grown beyond anyone’s ability to resolve it when those in authority start making statements that amount to hair-splitting at best,…
Dying Fish
In many people’s perception, voicing opposition to a proposed solution to a problem amounts to denying the existence of the problem. This opens up room for scheming individuals to enrich…
Two Steps Back
(Image Credit: ‘Man On Ladder’ from Wikimedia Commons; the image is at this link. Used without modification under Creative Commons Licence) Canada’s history with Indigenous people is starkly at odds…