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It's more nuanced than the closure of ER's, but that's been the main takeaway in the media. The execution of the transformation has been putrid. As already mentioned, a symbolic chopping of staff and budgets took place prior to the transformation office formation across all health regions regardless of budget performance. Positions were eliminated across ER's and urgent care centres forcing staff to reapply, retire or flee to other facilities/organizations. This left many facilities short-staffed, forcing double-shifts and overtime which is not saving anyone money and exhausts front-line workers which adds risk to patient care. The Province decided to leave the second biggest hospital out of transformation for a reason that has yet to be explained. How can you properly transform health care services provincially and let the second biggest hospital do it's own thing? Closing Concordia's ER leaves a big chunk of East Winnipeg and the Eastern bedroom communities without ready access to emergency care (Winnipeg has no freeways). In my opinion, the Grace (West Winnipeg) was only left open because their $44 million dollar ER upgrade was well under way before the PC's got to power. They put a PR person in charge of the Health Transformation Office. They shut down 4 of 5 Quick Care Clinics in Winnipeg prior to Transformation. They put a stop to all plans for new long term care facilities and created unreasonable $/bed requirements for new approvals. Manitoba was the last province to come to an agreement with the Feds on additional health funding. An ideal plan should (at least): offer more non-emergency options Quick Care Clinics closed, Misericordia Hospital urgent care closed make changes where needed and keep what's working Staff and budgets cut equally across regions regardless of Health Region's performance Allow all health regions and facilities to work together towards common goals and best practises St. Boniface Hospital left out Increase long term care beds to clear beds in Acute Care and Urgent Care facilities Pallister reneged on election promise to add 1200 long term care beds. Allow facilities and health regions the opportunity and time to properly transition staff and services Been covered - they didn't.

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: It was warmer during the Holocene Climatic Optimum than it is today — without any human influence. Answer: Though some temperatures during that period were in the same range as today, they were confined to the northern hemisphere and the summer months. What’s more, the cause is understood (orbital forcing similar to what controlled the Ice Ages), just as today’s cause is understood (CO2 emissions), and these causes are very different. NOAA has a page on this that contains the following quote: In summary, the mid-Holocene, roughly 6,000 years ago, was generally warmer than today, but only in summer and only in the northern hemisphere. More over, we clearly know the cause of this natural warming, and know without doubt that this proven “astronomical” climate forcing mechanism cannot be responsible for the warming over the last 100 years. As an aside, it’s worth noting that even if the Holocene had been as warm as or warmer than today, it would do nothing to undermine the theories and data that indicate today’s warming is rapid and anthropogenic.

Growing green: Electric-powered tractor turning heads at Farm Progress Show A California inventor is one of hundreds of exhibitors at the 2019 Canada’s Farm Progress Show, bringing with him a tractor that runs on an electric motor. Steven Heckeroth, the founder and CEO of “Solectrac”, has over 25 years of experience in building both zero energy homes and electric vehicles, spending much of his life finding ways to reduce fossil fuel use. He says tractors are a good fit for an electric overhaul. https://regina.ctvnews.ca/growing-green-electric-powered-tractor-turning-heads-at-farm-progress-show-1.4475603

Can't argue with you there, but it begs the question, "Then why did this government essentially force the closure of 4 of 5 Quick Care Clinics?" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/quick-care-clinics-closing-1.4199537

Trying without a plan is dangerous when it comes to health care. Don't forget that all health authorities were mandated to slash 15% of managers and 3% of costs regardless of their balance sheets before the transformation even began. Any government with any interest in actual outcomes would not dictate the same austerity measures to each region when some were actually meeting their budgets. Why would you eliminate the very people who have experience and knowledge of the system before you start planning transformation? A patient dying in an ER after waiting 6 hours is much more than a bump in the road, but that's the kind of lack of compassion that this government is banking on with voters.

I'm no longer in the ad business, but through actual paid commercials or product placement. Product placement is generally more subtle and if TSN offered product placement time during actual play-by-play, the person in charge should be fired. Why would anyone pay for that kind of placement when the viewer is distracted by the actual game? I truly believe that the Outrageous Burger fiasco is more due to Rod Black's ineptitude and a bad director who should have directed him to focus on the game.

That shouldn't be the responsibility of the TSN broadcast crew. At most, they can show food on their intro's and extro's from commercial breaks. Leave the marketing of stadium food to the stadium owners, please.

Andrew Harris

The new right wing strategy is not to privatize or eliminate public services, but to make it harder for them to operate within their means in order to turn the public against them. A side benefit is more profits in public hands. Tory meddling could cost MPI millions, boost Autopac rates PC directive extends insurance brokers' contract at rates board members viewed as excessive The Pallister government has directed Manitoba Public Insurance to give complete control of its future online product sales to insurance brokers, a move that could cost the corporation an extra $23 million over five years and boost Autopac rates, according to documents obtained by the Free Press. The documents, which include emails, letters, briefing notes and presentations, show repeated interventions by the Progressive Conservative government on behalf of brokers and shed light on why the Tory-appointed MPI board of directors sought a legal opinion last year to clarify its rights and responsibilities. The savings in broker commissions for MPI could be huge depending on how the system were configured. If brokers were bypassed completely in online sales, the savings could total $237 million over five years, according to a presentation to the MPI board of directors, dated April 18. That would mean a 4.4 per cent reduction in basic Autopac rates. If online product delivery were shared by brokers and MPI, the savings would be $91 million, according to the presentation by MPI staff. But if all online sales went through brokers — either through a broker website or by customers selecting a designated broker on the MPI site — the corporation would have to pay brokers an additional $23 million over five years (over and above the $84.5 million per year paid to them now), assuming the current compensation structure was retained. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/tory-meddling-could-cost-mpi-millions-boost-autopac-rates-511753682.html

Can't say that we should be horribly surprised at this outcome since Pallister named his head PR flack to run the Transformation Office. Just goes to show that this was an exercise driven by politics rather than best practises. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/health-pc-government-pallister-reform-cuts-1.4089324

I actually live in Manitoba and have relatives and friends who work in the Health & Education systems. They have a completely different opinion on this than your relatives as does anyone who is paying attention. Also, if you had followed the first link to the unrolled thread, you would have caught this story referenced on the 9th point. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/st-boniface-emergency-room-patient-dies-1.5179640

Your argument would at least be honest if you admitted to not caring one whit about Raybould, but I understand that's what's in the Conservative talking points memo.

Various Canadian Governments have been way to cozy with SNC Lavalin for far too long. Does not excuse the current government in anyway, but it also does not exonerate the Conservatives. Harper sold AECL for only $15 million to SNC, plus promised to pay them $75 million to complete development on Candu 6. How does that deal not stink to high heaven? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/aecl-sold-for-15m-to-snc-lavalin-1.985786

Sure......I'm guessing you haven't read the thread or somehow think the Conservatives would have done anything different with SNC Lavalin. They get irate if it is suggested they want to dismantle the Canada Health Act and throw us to the wolves of American Insurance "pay up or die" medicine. They don't like it when people express the opinion that conservatives only care about the wealthy and big corporations. 2/25 I hear so many people say, "Yeah, I vote conservative, but I have nothing against queers or brown people. I'm fiscally conservative and the conservatives are better managers of our money." 3/25 The thing is, in fact, the conservatives of late have been terrible financial stewards. Between them, Mulroney and Harper are responsible for the vast majority of Canada's national debt. 4/25 Did you know that Harper, in a desperate effort to produce an artificially balanced budget before the 2015 election, sold our GM stocks at a loss and sold off Canadian property (that's OUR property, not his) to put money in the coffers? 5/25 So, really, saying the conservatives are more fiscally responsible is not a defensible reason to vote for them. If you look at what else they do, not related to money, conservatives are incredibly hard on Canadians. Our neighbours, our families, our community. 6/25 Look at Ford's government, cutting assistance to families of children with autism. Cutting funding for health and education. cutting regulations designed to protect consumers, workers, and the environment... 7/25 Look at Kenney's government, only a month old, and already cutting protections for LGBTQ2S+ youth, denying public service employees (that's teachers and nurses among others) the right to negotiate their contracts. 8/25 Look at Pallister's government, throwing Manitoba's health care into chaos. 9/25 Both Ford and Kenney are denying the students of Ontario and Alberta (our children) access to sex-ed that is relevant to current issues like sexting, consent, even knowing the correct names for parts of their bodies. 10/25 And look back at Harper. What did Harper do? The list is very long. Destroyed science libraries, chose to visit pandas instead of meeting with First Nation's youth who had WALKED to Ottawa to meet with him... 11/25 Cut Veteran's services, cut Status of Women's offices, shut off acceptance of refugees, ignored MMIWG, removed protection from our lakes and waterways, sent our young men and women into a war zone that was not our war... 12/25 Prorogued parliament several times to save his own a$$. Tried to vilify the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Cut off media access. Only held town hall meetings that allowed vetted CPC supporters... 13/25 Fired and vilified whistle-blowers like Linda Keen and Richard Colvin. Was the only PM in Commonwealth history to be found in contempt of parliament. Wasted our money on Economic Action Plan billboards and ads... 14/25 Not to mention ads bought in Eastern Europe to tell Roma people they were not welcome in Canada. And ads in the US to promote the CPC and the pipelines. 15/25 He locked himself in a bathroom in a fit of pique while on an international trip. He had an unprecedented number of secret orders-in-council (25+) enacted, 8 during his last year in power. He brought in draconian and unconstitutional sentencing laws that have been shown in other jurisdictions to be completely ineffective in making communities safer. Apparently to satisfy a primal urge for vengeance among his base. 17/25 He brought in boutique tax credits to pander to people who already had money and ignored those who didn't. He brought in a taxable child benefit. He suggested a "barbaric cultural practices tip-line" "Hey Old Stock Canadians! Report your ethnic neighbours!" 18/25 It was on his watch that @ArarMaher , an innocent man, was sent by the RCMP, via the US, to Syria to be tortured. That's just not right, but reflects a willingness to sacrifice human beings, 19/25 It reflects an absence of compassion or empathy. It reflect a callousness towards others that is alarming. When it comes down to it, that is a trademark of the current conservative parties. A callous disregard for the value of life unless the person is someone they... 20/25 Approve of or could be useful to them. And if you think the CPC is under new management, well, conservative insiders say Harper is still pulling the strings and running things from an un-elected position behind the scene. 21/25 Andrew Scheer hired Hamish Marshall, co-founder of the racist hate-propaganda site, The Rebel, as his campaign manager. Georgette Burke, founder of an anti-Islam group is one of his advisors, A Trump campaigner is running as a CPC candidate. 22/25 The CPC freely associate with racist/misogynist/homophobic groups. They want US gun laws and US nukes on our land. They cheat in elections. They show no regard for the environment. They pander to their base and their donors. No one else matters. 23/25 If you can know all this and still say you vote CPC because you are only fiscally conservative, you are saying one of two things. Hint: neither reflects well on you. 24/25 You are either saying you actually are a racist/homophobe/misogynist and it just makes you mad when other people know it, or you care more about money than people. There's no way around that. That's really sad. 25/25

The entire thread serves as a great reminder of what we had prior to Trudeau. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1142648306163572736.html?fbclid=IwAR3bvApR5Eq_Z49uHBhqN96seOULOOLBkfG_kRYOrSWxwtalI-gYpiK3zLM

The rapid thaw of Alaska will accelerate global heating The state’s warmest spring on record will have planet-wide repercussions. A city in western Alaska has lost a huge stretch of riverbank to erosion that may turn it into an island, amid renewed warnings from scientists over the havoc triggered by the accelerating melting of the state’s ice and permafrost. Residents of the small city of Akiak were alarmed to find the Kuskokwim River suddenly much closer to housing after about 75-100 feet of riverbank disappeared over the course of just a few hours. https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-the-rapid-thaw-of-alaska-permafrost-will-accelerate-global-heating

Pretty bad when he stands out in a 55 point half.

the latest from the marvelous @jaredlholt at @CJR: a study purporting to link "antifa" to a number of journalists who cover the far right landed in a half-dozen conservative publications, even though the "researcher" was an established far-right troll: https://t.co/p263Yc818w — Sam Thielman (@samthielman) June 12, 2019

CJ Gable

Couple uses shopping spree win to stock up groceries for Calgary Food Bank As any Supermarket Sweep contestant could tell you, 50 seconds isn't a lot of time when you're burning rubber on the wheels of a shopping cart. But a couple who won a grocery shopping spree were motivated to go as quickly as they could on Saturday, because they weren't filling their own pantry. Chantal Leroux and her partner Ryan Warren won a contest to grab as many items, up to $500, as they could in 50 seconds from Bragg Creek Foods. "We were really excited to receive the call," said Leroux. "I immediately envisioned grabbing all sorts of things for my own cupboard and then after I reflected a couple seconds later, I thought what a great opportunity to be able to give back." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/grocery-spree-win-1.5177468

I just finished reading that 5 minutes ago!

I think the CFLPA is going to have to realize at some point that appealing these rulings places their athletes in a disadvantageous position in future concussion-related lawsuits.

TORONTO — The Canadian Football League announced Monday that it has issued a two-game suspension to Hamilton Tiger-Cats linebacker Simoni Lawrence. The suspensions comes after the veteran linebacker made direct contact to the head of Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Zach Collaros in the Ticats’ season opener on Thursday at Tim Hortons Field. As a result, Lawrence will miss matchups against division rivals Toronto Argonauts in Week 2 and Montreal Alouettes in Week 3. In a league-issued statement, Commissioner Randy Ambrosie said the following: On play #4 of CFL game #10, our regular season opener in Hamilton on Thursday, June 13, Hamilton Tiger-Cat Simoni Lawrence made direct contact to the head of Saskatchewan Roughrider quarterback Zach Collaros after Collaros had “given himself up” by starting his feet first slide. This dangerous and reckless hit has no place in our game. After a careful review of the play, which was called for unnecessary roughness on the field and assessed a 25-yard penalty, and a hearing with Lawrence, we are imposing a two-game suspension. We want to put this supplemental discipline in its proper context by making the following important points. 1. Player safety is the top priority for CFL. This point was stressed yet again as recently as June 12, the day before the game in question, in a league memo to all clubs which clearly stated: “Any player who performs an illegal act that creates a substantial and unnecessary risk of injury to an opposing player in a reckless and dangerous manner and outside of the acceptable standards of play will be subject to a suspension.” 2. In our recent discussions with the Canadian Football Players Association (CFLPA) that led to a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and in its public statements, the players association has said many times that player health and safety is also the players’ top priority. 3. Several individual players have continued to echo that sentiment on social media, during and since those CBA talks, including this past weekend. 4.We all need to walk all of this talk in a meaningful way now, at the outset of our season, by sending and supporting a clear and unequivocal message on player safety. 5. The precise circumstance that occurred on this play was identified this Spring by our Rules Committee, which includes the leadership of the CFLPA, as one that requires urgent and strong action. It passed a rule change that increased the focus on such a play and the scope of what is considered a penalty. Our supplemental discipline needs to mirror this emphasis. 6. We want to stress that this discipline is the result of this player’s actions on this play and this play alone. In fact, he has never been previously fined or suspended for dangerous play since joining the league in 2012. In addition, he has expressed contrition for his actions and concern for his opponent and former teammate’s health and well-being. However, dangerous and reckless play must be disciplined, not simply for the sake of punishment alone, but to deter such play in the future . All of us, league and players, need to take and support strong action to promote and protect player health and safety, and we need to work together. – Randy Ambrosie, CFL, Commissioner