The Struggle for Universal Health Care

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Sunday May 31, 2009 · 8:27 AM PDT

2009/05/31 · 08:27

Since I picked up an inner-ear infection a week ago, I've been thinking about the healthcare system. It took me 30 minutes and ultimately cost me $11 to receive the diagnosis and get the antibiotics required to clear it up. All thanks to the Canadian single-payer healthcare system.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 2:46 PM PDT

2008/10/02 · 14:46

Though not a subject I speak about very much--if at all--recent conversations with friends and family have gotten me thinking about the role chronic pain plays in my life.

Hi, my name is Sean, and I experience chronic pain.

(Hi Sean!)

Notice I said experience, rather than suffer. To me, this is an important distinction that makes dealing with the pain far easier than it might be otherwise. I guess in my mind, experience is something that happens to you--something you have little control over and something that life has bequeathed to you. Suffering on the other hand, is optional.

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 6:38 AM PDT

2008/04/04 · 06:38

In a futile attempt to inject something other than primary madness into Daily Kos this morning--although this week has been better than most in terms of insanity--I wanted to take a moment and reflect on the start of Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica.

The first episode of the long awaited Season 4 airs tonight on SciFi, although you can view "He that Beliveth in Me" online at the SciFi website starting at noon.

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 8:11 PM PST

2008/03/03 · 20:11

Would this count as live-blogging? Considering it's been 45 minutes since the polls closed here in Alberta and every major news outlet has called the election for Ed Stelmach's Conservatives, I have a hard time considering what I'm doing now as anything more than a post-mortem.

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Wednesday January 09, 2008 · 8:27 AM PST

2008/01/09 · 08:27

We need John Edwards. We Need Hillary Clinton. We need Barack Obama. We also need Howard Dean, Chris Dodd and Al Gore. We need Kucinich and Richardson.

Why?

Because none are perfect, but all together are the perfect cure for what ails America.

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Thursday August 23, 2007 · 7:04 AM PDT

2007/08/23 · 07:04

Driving into work this morning I heard an interesting piece on the Radio. First let me be clear: I was listening to CBC Radio--which to most conservatives in Alberta is just to the left of Stalin. That said, I find it 'fair and balanced' myself--even if it's sometimes right-leaning. It's Alberta after-all.

Alberta == Texas North.

It wasn't much of a surprise then when I heard about this:
Alberta Government Agency Spies on Montana Citizens.

Follow me below the fold for more cloak and dagger goodness...

(Cross-posted to A Creative Revolution)

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Thursday August 02, 2007 · 7:32 AM PDT

2007/08/02 · 07:32

DailyKos attracts a lot of US Senators. From the likes of John Kerry and Russ Feingold to Hillary Clinton and Patrick Leahy, numerous representative of the upper house post at and read this site.

As I'm a Canadian Citizen, I don't have the capability to contact my Senator--well, at least not one that represents me in the US Senate. Instead I want to use this diary as a way to reach out to the Senators who read and post here at DailyKos.

I may not be an American, but I believe in America. I believe in America as a place where the common man has a say in how his country is run. I believe in the ideals set out by your founding fathers. I believe in the rights and responsibilities outlined in your constitution.

And I believe you are on the verge of losing it. As a friend, and neighbor, I would weep if that should happen.

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Friday July 13, 2007 · 9:35 AM PDT

2007/07/13 · 09:35

Well, it looks like Fits won another one: http://www.cbc.ca/.... Conrad Black has been found guilty on three counts of fraud and one count of Obstruction of Justice.

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Tuesday June 19, 2007 · 8:23 AM PDT

2007/06/19 · 08:23

Now I've been one of the few people left in Canada who didn't think Stockwell Day was a complete idiot. I spent many years living in Alberta when he was a provincial cabinet minister, and to be honest, he wasn't that bad at it. Sure, once he got on the National stage his lunacy began to show, but I still pulled for him. He was like the little engine that couldn't--you just have to feel sorry for him.

But no longer.

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Saturday December 30, 2006 · 8:55 PM PST

2006/12/30 · 20:55

Sometimes funny thoughts dance through your head when your feverish. Thoughts like how all information is simply meta-information, because really--is there an atomic instance of information that cannot be used to describe another bit of information?

Okay, for someone like myself who's day job is Director of R&D at a Content Management System Software company, maybe you don't need to be feverish to consider such things--but it helps.

Then again, so does being a programmer. In a lot of way's we're insane--and we're the guys to thank for all this wonderful blogging technology!

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Thursday December 21, 2006 · 10:13 PM PST

2006/12/21 · 22:13

'Latte Liberal', 'Champagne Socialist', 'Liberal Elites'--how often have many of us here been categorized as such? In the so-called 'Culture Wars' that rage across the political spectrum such terms are easily flung from the right--just as easily as we progressives and liberals have our own pejoratives for our opponents.

A couple of recent diaries got me thinking however (never a safe thing to do) about how often those who could be considered 'minority constituencies' on the left put many of the rest of us in the above categories.

Cross posted to The Next Agenda

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Wednesday December 20, 2006 · 1:18 PM PST

2006/12/20 · 13:18

"Defend the West: No to Wheat Board, No to Kyoto, No to Gun Registry"
- Western Canadian Bumper Sticker

I am an expatriot Maritimer now living in Calgary, Alberta. I've been here for nearly fifteen years, and have had the pleasure of seeing the growth of the 'Alberta Advantage' first hand. Not surprisingly the growth of the Western Political movement (post-Mulroney Conservatism) has boomed with the oil patch--Alberta still bitterly remembers Trudeau's NEP. Every sucessful Western Canadian politician in the last decade has played into the disaffection the West feels. Upon Stephen Harper's election as PM, multitudes of Western conservatives claimed the 'West was In'. But is it really?

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