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Do we want the best or not?
Year after year, poll after poll we see that health care is considered far and away to be the most important issue to Albertans whether left, right or center. We also see constant stories of...
View ArticleA cousin with a cause.
In many ways 2011 was simply not a good year in my family particularly when it came to cancer. Jane and I lost a sister-in-law to lung cancer (she never smoked a day in her life), a niece lost an eye...
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Outcome or ideology? Which is more important to you?
There are few sacred-cows that have been more carefully crafted and fiercely protected than that of Canada’s health care system. Tommy Douglas has been essentially canonized as a founder of our...
View ArticleOK now folks, raise your hand if you thought that smoking wasn’t bad for you.
The Redford government has launched a $10 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies for what appears to be two reasons: 1. To desperately try and find the funds required to pay for the massive spending...
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Walla walla bing bang.
Yes folks our Alberta’s provincial government has moved beyond being simply inept and arrogant into the world of the bizzare. Heathcare consistently ranks as a prime issue with Albertans. With waiting...
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Socialized medicine is rationed medicine.
With health care consistently polling as the top concern for Canadians it is sad yet unsurprising that so many people see queue jumping by people with connections as being one of the prime problems of...
View ArticleHealth care “premiums” are a tax. Say it like it is.
To say that the Redford government is up the fiscal creek is an incredible understatement. The Redford led Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta won the 2012 election on a platform of false revenue...
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Want to conserve a resource? Make it a commodity!
An unfortunate reality is that the more critical a resource is to the population at large is, the more likely and effective efforts will be to put the management of the resource fully and directly into...
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Alberta tragedy; Redford’s Michener Centre closure.
If I am to be measured on the political scale, I land pretty strongly on the libertarian side of things. I want to see a minimal amount of government in our lives along with a maximum amount of...
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Anti-vaccination nuts picking up where the religious ones left off.
With most conspiracy driven crackpots I generally roll my eyes and let them go on with their imagined world ills. Reasoning with the conspiracy-inclined is an exercise in futility and only invites a...
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