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Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Uh Oh Canada's Health Care Monopoly

Canadian gub'mint healthcare: precarious...

The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.

Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country - who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting - recognize that changes must be made.

"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize," Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Now, the Canadian doctors aren't calling for an end to their "universal" - but not readily available and crumbling - health care system, but the changes proposed bring them closer to our way. We should take note of that. One other thing, BigDog (blogging at RightWingSparkle) warns us not to get complacent just because it seems we've won a couple of victories in this fight against statism.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Ne pas être malade le dimanche...


My favorite quote: "You're young, you have time..." Sorta gives a clear picture of where things would end up, doesn't it?

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

D-Day: 65 Years Later

We live free because of these men. Because of their sacrifice we've never known a day, a minute, a second of true oppression or tyranny. They knew they were going to die and deemed the price worthwhile. It's a debt that cannot be repaid.


President Salutes Veterans Of D-Day
One of the president's honored guests – Jim Norene, a member of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne – didn't make it.

"Last night, after visiting this cemetery for one last time, he passed away in his sleep," Obama told a solemn crowd of vets stretching farther than most eyes can see. "Jim was gravely ill when he left his home, and he knew that he might not return. But just as he did sixty-five years ago, he came anyway. May he now rest in peace with the boys he once bled with, and may his family always find solace in the heroism he showed here." [...]

"In the face of a merciless assault from these cliffs, you could have idled the boats offshore," Obama said. "Amid a barrage of tracer bullets that lit the night sky, you could have stayed in those planes. You could have hid in the hedgerows or waited behind the sea wall.

"At an hour of maximum danger, amid the bleakest of circumstances, men who thought themselves ordinary found it within themselves to do the extraordinary. They fought for their moms and sweethearts back home, for the fellow warriors they came to know as brothers. And they fought out of a simple sense of duty – a duty sustained by the same ideals for which their countrymen had fought and bled for over two centuries."

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

It's Not Just Canada

Do you think crap like this only happens in Canada? Well think again:
A Christian law firm will appeal a ruling by the New Mexico Human Rights Commission fining a photographer who refused to take photos of a homosexual commitment ceremony.

Elaine Huguenin and her husband Jon, who co-own Elane Photography in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are both Christians. So when a lesbian couple asked them to photograph their "commitment ceremony" in Taos, the Huguenins politely refused. In response, Vanessa Willock filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission claiming the Huguenins discriminated against her because of her "sexual orientation." On Wednesday, the Commission found the Christian couple guilty of discrimination under state anti-discrimination laws and ordered them to pay more than $6,000 in costs.
The disease of government sanctioned political correctness and multicultural claptrap is spreading and it's a danger to us all.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Canadian Election Results

Our friends to the north are voting today... Follow the results here.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Meanwhile, In Canada... Speaking Of The Reach Of The Courts...

In Canada they're subjecting your parental decisions to judicial review. Justice Kenburgstevouter must be salivating at the very thought...
A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl's grounding, overturning her father's punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on websites he tried to block, and then posting "inappropriate" pictures of herself online using a friend's computer. [...]

According to court documents, the girl's Internet transgression was just the latest in a string of broken house rules. Even so, Justice Suzanne Tessier found her punishment too severe.
This just makes you want to scream huh? The dad is appealing the ruling.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

I'm Warning You, Don't Get Complacent About Liberty

I wrote here about the travesty being committed against Maclean's magazine and Mark Steyn (as well as others, including blogger friend of QC, Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury) in Canada, and I warned you that complacency is dangerous even in our great nation. Here's more proof: Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S.
Some prominent legal scholars say the United States should reconsider its position on hate speech.

"It is not clear to me that the Europeans are mistaken," Jeremy Waldron, a legal philosopher, wrote in The New York Review of Books last month, "when they say that a liberal democracy must take affirmative responsibility for protecting the atmosphere of mutual respect against certain forms of vicious attack."

Waldron was reviewing "Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment" by Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times columnist. Lewis has been critical of attempts to use the law to limit hate speech.

But even Lewis, a liberal, wrote in his book that he was inclined to relax some of the most stringent First Amendment protections "in an age when words have inspired acts of mass murder and terrorism." In particular, he called for a re-examination of the Supreme Court's insistence that there is only one justification for making incitement a criminal offense: the likelihood of imminent violence.

Make no mistake, the powers of political correctness have our first amendment in their sights.

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Canadian Concepts Of Freedom

Canada: The True North Strong and Free, right? Maybe not, if John Miller has anything to say about it.

They're having a debate on how best to implement censorship. Wow... Just wow... Enjoy the debate while you can Mr. Miller. The Muslims will settle the argument by just lopping off heads.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Guv'mint Medicine

Canada is one of the biggest spenders on "socialized" health care and also one of the worst providers:

Even more alarming is that Canada -- one of the biggest spenders among the 30 ranked countries -- provides the worst value for money in health care. This means that Health Canada every year costs Canadian taxpayers billions of dollars without delivering value.

So, what do Canadians say about these assessments?

To start with, the public response to the concept of comparing the publicly funded and governed Canadian system to similar systems around Europe was positive.

The old health policy quarrel between U.S. and Canada is a dead-end; few can deny that comparing Canada to Germany, France or Sweden is more relevant, since these countries share the same values of accessible and efficient health care.

This is where our index begins a new and necessary discussion.

Would it be unreasonable to expect Canada to offer better health care to its citizens than Hungary, Latvia or Greece? And what would such improvements take?

At the same time, this perspective received a defensive but typically Canadian objection at media conferences and lectures: "It is true our waiting is long for treatments and new medicines but the outcomes are anyhow quite good - and that is the most essential thing!"

From a European perspective, such an attitude of low expectations or resigned humility is almost extreme.

It reflects the opinion that you cannot ask for public health care to deliver consistent quality: access might be good, but then outcomes are lousy or the other way around. Few Western Europeans would accept that.

Why do some Americans think government run health care is a good idea? I'll take a market driven health care system any day; and I say that as someone who has recently needed major medical care.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Free Speech Brouhaha In Canada

From Alice the Camel comes word of an attack on freedom of speech in Canada. A complaint has been filed against one Bill Whatcott and the website Free Dominion, because of comments he made there, by a non-muslim woman who claims she was offended by his criticism of Islam and Muslims. Yeah, I don't get it either.

Now, don't go thinking I'm a fan of Mr. Whatcott because I'm not. He seems to be very anti-everything including homosexuals. But he has the right to be "anti" anything he wants to be; no skin off my teeth. He did however ask one question that I would really love to hear the lefty gays answer:
"I can't figure out why the homosexuals I ran into are on the side of the Muslims. After all, Muslims who practice Sharia law tend to advocate beheading homosexuals."
Kathy at Relapsed Catholic has some thoughts on this as well.

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