Opinion
Cam ‘N’ Eggs: Today, why not start YOUR impossible?
How can you start your own “impossible”?
https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/cam-n-eggs-remembering-the-inspirational-terry-fox
“Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot… Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all the critics… this dude is a phenomenal—he is the most powerful human on earth.”— Van Jones, CNN liberal/ Trump hater
While hockey is nominally the national sport of Canada, a good case can be made that sneering at America is a close second. Mocking the foibles of the neighbours to the South as a means of propping up the junior partner’s self esteem has long been a feature of Canadian life. The Excited States etc.
Donald Trump took the condescension to stratospheric levels. So strong is the mockery of modern-day Laurentian popinjays that a 51st state jibe from Trump spun an entire election on its head. How bad were Liberal fortunes? Many of Trudeau’s allies and groomsmen announced they were not pursuing re-election. Depending on who’s counting votes now, fussy banker Mark Carney could have a voting majority in Parliament after the Trudeau Liberals trailed by as many as 20 points in the 2024 polls.
The manipulated Carney hustle advertising Change! was a carbon copy of the backroom Democrats attempts to nurse a mentally incapacitated Joe Biden through the 2024 elections then spring VP Kamala Harris as the first female president. When Biden imploded while debating Trump the shadowy DEMs behind Biden accelerated the Kamala script. Despite the frantic efforts of their media/ pollsters Harris flopped and Trump resumed the presidency in a lopsided win. Average Americans were not fooled.
By now the questionable sequence of events in Canada that brought Carney in from the bullpen to clean up for Trudeau is well known— and highly mockable in its own right. The proroguing of Parliament, the rigging of the Liberal leadership race by DQ-ing candidates, the hermetically sealed Carney resume, a very short campaign, the Elbows Up Mike Myers TV spots, the vow to match tariffs and so on. It was a cavalcade of corruption.
All of this Canada First! was accepted by gullible Boomers and smothered by the purchased media. Advertisers jumped in with patriotic beer ads. Trudeau’s postmodern state was more like Laurier’s Canada rallying to fight the Bosch in 1915. The extent of this deception can now be seen with the benefit of time. Carney’s accession was a carefully controlled script in which Carney rescinded tariffs during the campaign without telling voters. He declared that America was no longer Canada’s No. 1 partner then begged to be let in on the proposed Golden Dome defence shield. He revived the most controversial Trudeau era cabinet members. He joined GB and France in demanding Israel go easy on Hamas.
And when the economy started tanking he blamed Pierre Poilievre for failing the nation. What voters now can see is that the last election was about Boomers, the Liberals last line of acquiescence. Myers’ nostalgia was about saving the equity in Boomers’ cash-box homes so that the government could then tell those using their homes as equity that as a trade off, they will now tax the equity in their primary residence.
The great thing about being a Canadian Liberal is you can make every mistake in the book– and a few not in the book– and CDN. voters will still forgive it all if you show them a movie star. For all the mocking they receive from Canada, American voters saw through the Biden farce and said “Enough”. Canadian voters saw the same grift and said “More Please”. How do you take a nation like that seriously?
For those Canadians in media who regularly make fun of the Americans’ bravado and noise there has been no awareness of how Canadians had been played like a cheap violin. Okay, Andrew Coyne finally admitted voters were conned. But most settled back into a deep sleep, free from Chinese fentanyl, money laundering by the big banks and the plight of their kids and grandkids.
Nice work if you can get it. Mark Carney got it, and his Boomers ca now swallow deep.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, Bruce is regular media contributor. The new book from the team of Evan & Bruce Dowbiggin is Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL & Changed Hockey. From Espo to Boston in 1967 to Gretz in L.A. in 1988 to Patrick Roy leaving Montreal in 1995, the stories behind the story. In paperback and Kindle on #Amazon. Destined to be a hockey best seller. https://www.amazon.ca/Deal-Trades-Stunned-Changed-Hockey-ebook/dp/B0D236NB35/
From the Fraser Institute
It’s unusual to see a provincial government take on health-care reform. But not so in Alberta, where major reforms have been underway for almost a year. The province has long struggled with lengthy waits for non-emergency care and a majority (58 per cent) of Albertans last year were unsatisfied with the government’s handling of health care.
And who could blame them?
The median wait last year in Alberta was 19.2 weeks to see a specialist (after getting a referral from a family doctor) followed by the same amount of time to receive treatment. This combined 38.4-week wait marked the longest delay for non-emergency care in Alberta since data were first published more than 30 years ago. Also last year, an estimated 208,000 patients waited for care in Alberta. These waits are not benign and can result in prolonged pain and discomfort, psychological distress, and can impact our ability to work and earn money.
In fact, according to our new study, last year health-care wait times in Alberta cost patients $778 million—or more than $3,700 per-patient waiting. This estimate, however, doesn’t include leisure time after work or on weekends. When this time was included in the calculation, the total cost of these waits balloons to more than $2.3 billion or around $11,000 per patient.
Again, to its credit, the Smith government has not shied away from reform. It’s reorganized one of province’s largest employers (Alberta Health Services) with the goal of improving health-care delivery, it plans to change how hospitals are funded to deliver more care, and it continues to contract out publicly funded surgeries to private clinics. Here, the government should look at expanding, based on the success the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative (SSI), which helped increase that province’s surgical capacity by delivering publicly funded surgeries through private clinics and shortened the median health-care wait from 26.5 weeks in 2010 to 14.2 weeks by 2014.
The SSI also “pooled” referrals in Saskatchewan together and allowed patients to choose which specialist they wanted to see for treatment, and patients received estimates of how long they would wait before choosing.
In Alberta, however, family doctors still refer patients to one specific specialist at a time yet remain potentially unaware of other appropriate doctors with shorter waits. But if Alberta also put specialist wait lists and referrals into one list, and provided updated wait times information, a family doctor could help patients choose a specialist with a shorter wait time. Or better yet, if Albertans could access that information online with an Alberta health card, they could make that decision on their own while working with their family doctor.
Make no mistake, change is in the air for health care in Alberta. And while key policy changes are now underway, the Smith government should consider more options while this window for reform remains open.
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