Category: Great Moments In Socialism

Best Healthcare System In The World

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 23 Comments

Calgary Herald- Policymakers in Ottawa and Edmonton maintain broken health-care system

In 2021 (the latest year of available data), among high-income universal health-care countries, Canada spent the highest share of its economy on health care (after adjusting for age differences between countries). For that world-class level of spending, Canada ranked 28th in the availability of physicians, 23rd in hospital beds, 25th in MRI scanners and 26th in CT scanners. And we ranked dead last on wait times for specialist care and non-emergency surgeries.

This abysmal performance has been consistent since at least the early 2000s, with Canada regularly posting top-ranked spending alongside bottom-ranked performance in access to health care.

Ottawa Citizen- No concern about ’diminished supply’ of doctors in Ontario: Health ministry

The argument from the province comes as the OMA, which represents Ontario’s doctors, has repeatedly warned that more than two million residents don’t have a family doctor and thousands of physician jobs are going unfilled.

Revolutionary Justice

Canada’s Bolsheviks Mischief Is Important Protected Class 17 Comments

Making veiled threats ought to at least get you investigated by the police. Or maybe your bank account could be frozen…oh, wait… that’s a punishment reserved for conservative protestors. The vanguard of the proletariat is apparently exempt from such scrutiny.

Kevin Bryan, a University of Toronto business professor who visited the encampment and spoke with activists on Thursday, said he found that the “majority of people I talked to are neither students nor affiliated with our university.”

Bryan’s tweets highlighting the non-student element of the anti-Israel encampment prompted Vic Wojciechowska, a communications officer with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), to threaten the professor with “consequences.”

“There need to be street-based consequences for clumsy buffoons like Kevin.

The Potholes Will Have To Wait

Canada’s Bolsheviks Green Police 10 Comments

There’s more important things to deal with first.

Calgary Herald- ‘Just get rid of it’: Single-use items bylaw repeal public hearing to be held Tuesday

The new rules — still technically in effect — require grocery stores, restaurants and other food vendors to impose a minimum $0.15 surcharge on customers for a paper bag or $1 for a new reusable cloth bag at the point of sale. Those rates would have climbed to $0.25 and $2 respectively in 2025.

The bylaw also put the onus on customers to request single-use items and foodware accessories, such as napkins and plastic utensils.

The Part I Like Best

Great Moments In Socialism 18 Comments

About “safer supply” is how it reduces consumption and gets addicts into treatment.

A significant amount of safer supply opioids are obviously being diverted to the black market, but some influential voices are vehemently downplaying this problem.

They often claim that there are simply too few safer supply clients for diversion to be a real issue. But this argument is misleading because it glosses over the fact that these clients receive truly staggering amounts of narcotics relative to everyone else. […]

Just five years ago, the street price of an eight-mg hydromorphone tablet was around $20 in major Canadian cities – now they often go for as little as $1. But advocates repeatedly emphasize that, even if such diversion is occurring, it must be a minor issue because there are only a few thousand safer supply clients in Canada.

They believe that it is simply impossible for such a small population to have a meaningful impact on the overall black market for diverted pharmaceuticals, and that the sudden collapse of hydromorphone prices must have been caused by other factors.

Nothing is ever their fault.

Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?

Great Reset United Nations 18 Comments

James Lindsay: Something really sinister is going on there.

The United Nations is a religious organization, and the religion behind it is a cult. More specifically, it is a theosophical cult based on an “evolutionary” vision for mankind that it wants to control. This fact is revealed in a strange book by late UN big-wig and creator of the World Core Curriculum (Common Core in the United States), Robert Muller, from about 25 years ago titled 2000 Ideas for a Better World, which he published in four volumes in the lead-up to the year 2000 (links below). Muller delivered this book and a summary of the key spiritual points to the UN Secretary-General in March of 1999 in advance of the Millennium Assembly with the hope that it would guide UN global policy and global spirituality in the 21st century and third millennium. He then went on to publish five thousand more ideas. The book is shocking in its contents…

Fairness For Every Generation

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Alex Pierson– Blacklocks Reporter,” An astonishing figure because it’s double what debt ceiling was just 3 years ago. It’s almost equivalent to entire economic production of Canada in one year.” 

Francisco- What does that mean?

“Whatever your children’s tragedies and triumphs will be 30 or 40 years from now, they’re not gonna have the money. You can tell them it’s because of what was buried on page 638 of a Notice of Ways & Means tabled in the house of commons.”
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Listen to the whole thing. 

Historical Figures

Great Moments In Socialism Historical Events nannystate 7 Comments

Having played Monopoly many times in my life, I had not realized that the inventor was a doctrinaire socialist who developed it in order to promote a jaundiced view of free markets. Nonetheless, the game stands as one example of how socialists effectively employ broad cultural narratives to promote their ideas.

Magie …wrote poems, performed in dramatic theater, taught college-level courses in her home, corresponded with Upton Sinclair, and studied economic theory. Her father was close friends with Abraham Lincoln. Both father and daughter were devout followers of the teachings of economist Henry George, whose 1879 treatise Progress and Poverty made the case for a single tax, on land. Like her fellow Georgists, Magie believed that ownership of nature was not possible — the earth was not something that could be owned. Land could, however, be “rented”, thus comprising the single tax. Magie designed The Landlord’s Game to teach and proselytize the principles of Georgism.

For those who are not familiar with Henry George, I like to call him a pre-Marxist Marxist.

The Tables Are Not Diverse!

Canada’s Bolsheviks I, Napoleon More Pavilions At Folkfest 21 Comments

I thought I would post this story as a great example of a short-circuited thought process. The cultural wrecking ball is swinging full force these days.

“This is a very personal issue for me,” said Anand, who is the first person of colour to hold the federal government’s purse strings as Treasury Board president.

“I still walk into rooms and look at tables that are not diverse.”

Case in point: in February, Anand walked into a briefing regarding mental-health counselling for Black public-service workers.

There were no Black employees in the room, she said.

“I said to the individuals briefing me: ‘Why aren’t there any Black individuals facing me?’ This is not acceptable.”

We’re All In This Together

Canada’s Bolsheviks Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 23 Comments

MikesMoneyTalks.ca- So painfully full of it. Right now in BC the NDP is sending cancer patients to private clinics in Washington State. Numeorus NDP cabinet ministers have used the private Cambie Street Surgery Centre, which was established at the urging of the NDP in order to allow union workers to avoid the public system wait lists.

As an MP you join federal prisoners, military RCMP in using private clinics – as did former CAW head Buzz Hargrove to get knee surgery in a week in a private clinic while the average Cdn waits over a year in the public system. 17,032 patients died waiting for diagnostic scans and surgery in 2022-23 – but not one connected politician. They don’t wait b/c they use private clinics.

Your ideology is dangerous to Cdns health.

Follow up.

Great Success!

Climate Cult Great Reset 34 Comments

Telegraph- How Canada’s energy experiment backfired – and why smart meter Britain is next

Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at the University of Cambridge, said that Ontario’s system proved to be a “mad idea” that failed to change behaviour en masse.

“People were not prepared to change their electricity consumption to save a few pence. This was always a mad idea that was never ever going to work. People just didn’t care and it didn’t move the needle at all,” he said.

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