All Things Canada Eh

[macdoc]

The Fraser institute ....what a right wing crap monger.

While some hope we can spend our way out of this problem, a new report finds that Canada is already the most expensive health-care system in the world but has little to show for it.

Utter bullshit ....the most expensive healthcare system in the world is the US by far.
Spending more, with poorer outcomes.
Canada is also by far the largest nation which has widespread impact on timely delivery.

Australia does better and Canada has lessons to learn as it also has delivery issues. Employment of nurse practitioners and a mix of public and private healthcare systems that mutually support each other and make a wider range of resources available are features.

Internationally renowned Commonwealth Fund has ranked Australia’s health system as the top performing country in 2024.

Australia’s rank tops the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.

https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the ... d%20States.

[Sean Hayden]

Canada’s health care system on verge of collapse, family doctors warn

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is sounding the alarm of a health care system on the verge of collapse. Without drastic policy changes by the provincial, territorial, and federal governments now, family medicine – the foundation of our health care system – will fail.

The CFPC, the sole voice for family medicine in this country, demands governments listen to family doctors and take critical action now. Doctors, patients, health professionals, and the public are urged to join the CFPC’s fight for family doctors and the future of health care. Patients are sick of waiting for care and family doctors are sick of waiting for support.

Family medicine is the backbone of the Canadian health care system. Family doctors, who provide 70 per cent of health care services in this country, manage patient care and referrals, mitigate emergency visits, increase system capacity, and reduce costs. Yet, more than six million people in this country don’t have access to a regular family doctor. Family physicians themselves are overwhelmed, burnt out and suffocating under administrative tasks. Many are leaving the profession.

https://www.cfpc.ca/en/canada-s-health- ... ctors-warn

[Cunt]

Did King Chuck just offer Trump the Northwest Passage? Our provinces are governed by themselves, but I think the territories are still crown...it would be just like Trump to try to take the best of Canada, while leaving behind all the city folk cuddled up against the US border.

Anyway, they seem to be having some agreement, it might not at all be about Canada or its territories.

In unrelated news, do any of you smart mariners know where a deep water port could be constructed along Canada's north coast? I suppose such a fantasy build would require rail or road access too...where would speculators be showing themselves if such a thing were coming down the pipe?

Admittedly, I don't know that a deep port would be needed up there, since passing through is of enough importance to merit interest...but if saving a few hundred kilometers is worth doing on a sea route, isn't that also likely on a land route?

Winnipeg is the geographic center of North America, so that might play in to future shipping plans. Heinlein used it for a semi-ballistic air travel base.

[Brian Peacock]

Canada’s health care system on verge of collapse, family doctors warn

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is sounding the alarm of a health care system on the verge of collapse. Without drastic policy changes by the provincial, territorial, and federal governments now, family medicine – the foundation of our health care system – will fail.

The CFPC, the sole voice for family medicine in this country, demands governments listen to family doctors and take critical action now. Doctors, patients, health professionals, and the public are urged to join the CFPC’s fight for family doctors and the future of health care. Patients are sick of waiting for care and family doctors are sick of waiting for support.

Family medicine is the backbone of the Canadian health care system. Family doctors, who provide 70 per cent of health care services in this country, manage patient care and referrals, mitigate emergency visits, increase system capacity, and reduce costs. Yet, more than six million people in this country don’t have access to a regular family doctor. Family physicians themselves are overwhelmed, burnt out and suffocating under administrative tasks. Many are leaving the profession.

https://www.cfpc.ca/en/canada-s-health- ... ctors-warn

Similar picture in the UK. The problem is a sustained lack of investment since the 2007/8 crash, and over here the syphoning off the easily profitable services to the private sector - leading to a fragmented and overburdened system. Add the impact of the pandemic and the demographic changes of an ageing population into the mix and health outcomes overall have been on the backslide for quite a while.

[Tero]

Clive Thompson
@clive@saturation.social
Hey Canadians:

I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US

the border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one ...

... then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US

These folks weren't activists or anything -- the search doesn't appear to have been triggered by that

so, govern yourselves accordingly

[Woodbutcher]

Clive Thompson
@clive@saturation.social
Hey Canadians:

I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US

the border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one ...

... then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US

These folks weren't activists or anything -- the search doesn't appear to have been triggered by that

so, govern yourselves accordingly

Just like Russia used to be!

[L'Emmerdeur]

Indeed, I've come across multiple reports of phones being seized and the border goons searching browser histories. Anything deemed 'anti-Trump' will see you barred from entry. Seems likely that it's up to the individual doing the search to determine if anything found is 'anti-Trump.' Foreigners and their thought crimes, am I right?

[pErvinalia]

Free speech champions.

[macdoc]

Churchill Manitoba has a deepwater port in northern Manitoba, but it has no more than 1000 inhabitants. Hudson found the bay 1610 by ..

It also has a rail line connecting to Winnipeg.
...
Cairns is the ballistic travel choice for sub-orbital flights. It has featured in a number of sci-fi novels.
Close to the equator, and stable gov. It would actually be in Kuranda as Cairns will soon enough be underwater ....the airport already has been.

[macdoc]

Put my application in the for Mail in vote. First time.
Don’t think I can vote in the upcoming Australian Federal Election until I get my citizenship which I’m eligible for.
That means I will be required to vote right down to the local level. Best way to do it …even Australians abroad still are required to vote.

Method of voting​
Parliament of Australia
The preferential voting system used is an absolute majority system where for election a candidate must obtain more than 50 per cent of the votes in the count.

Trudeau lost a lot of favour when he backed away from putting in a similar voter reform in Canada…they did the analysis and realized they would have lost the last election without FPTP.
So much for ethics.

[Cunt]

Churchill Manitoba has a deepwater port in northern Manitoba, but it has no more than 1000 inhabitants. Hudson found the bay 1610 by ..

It also has a rail line connecting to Winnipeg.
...
Cairns is the ballistic travel choice for sub-orbital flights. It has featured in a number of sci-fi novels.
Close to the equator, and stable gov. It would actually be in Kuranda as Cairns will soon enough be underwater ....the airport already has been.

I kinda forgot about Churchill. A pal went to run a marathon there a few years ago. They forced everyone to run in pairs, and sent quads along the route watching for polar bears. Sounds fun.

It could serve, if my notion of a northwest passage is at all correct. Easier to upgrade that, than starting something in Rankin, or anywhere really.

[macdoc]

Big question is how long does it take for the Bay to open in the spring and how short a season.

[Tyrannical]

Put my application in the for Mail in vote. First time.
Don’t think I can vote in the upcoming Australian Federal Election until I get my citizenship which I’m eligible for.
That means I will be required to vote right down to the local level. Best way to do it …even Australians abroad still are required to vote.

Method of voting​
Parliament of Australia
The preferential voting system used is an absolute majority system where for election a candidate must obtain more than 50 per cent of the votes in the count.

Trudeau lost a lot of favour when he backed away from putting in a similar voter reform in Canada…they did the analysis and realized they would have lost the last election without FPTP.
So much for ethics.

Leaving the 51st for the 53rd State?

It's just silly how much sense a US-Canada-Australian joint country makes. Which I'm sure Trump will mention in a month or so

[Cunt]

Big question is how long does it take for the Bay to open in the spring and how short a season.

That's supposed to be changing. Or is changing.

If the passage becomes a reasonable trip, it cuts days off some major routes. I'm not sure what the schedule is though. If global warming is a thing, then gradually over a few decades, if the magnetic-pole-swap is a thing, it could be suddenly, sometime in the next x years

[Tyrannical]

Big question is how long does it take for the Bay to open in the spring and how short a season.

That's supposed to be changing. Or is changing.

If the passage becomes a reasonable trip, it cuts days off some major routes. I'm not sure what the schedule is though. If global warming is a thing, then gradually over a few decades, if the magnetic-pole-swap is a thing, it could be suddenly, sometime in the next x years

Did you see where Trump said he was ordering 48 icebreakers? Oh, and Canada cant use them unless they're a State. But yeah he wants to open the Northwest passage.