After many months of hiatus, it's back. It's the ACPRU.
Lysiane Gagnon paints a picture of how allowing private healthcare can create a healthcare utopia, just like in France. However, private healthcare doesn't imply the most important "glitch" with her theory (Emphasis mine).
One of the reasons for the sterling performance of the French system is its large network of family doctors - which means that everything is done to closely monitor the patient's condition and prevent disease. There's a glitch, though. There are so many physicians that their earnings are not as high as Canadian GPs. Most of them have no secretary, and they answer the phone, set up appointments and fill out insurance forms themselves.
Kelly McParland
Mr. McGuinty may be the one who is surprised. Mr. Rae went from Popular Premier to Deficit Poster Boy pretty quickly as Ontarians absorbed what he’d done. They never really forgave him. Once he gains the crown, Mr. McGuinty may find himself wearing it for a long time.
Kevin Brooker
Once you add in the security measures, air travel's protocols have become so opaque and disturbing that standup comics can't even bring themselves to comment any more.
Still, we can only hope that other airlines follow Ryanair's lead, just as in our world, it took WestJet to teach the others that passengers don't really need to present triplicate, red-carbon-paper tickets, complete with five pages of IATA legal boilerplate.
David Suzuki
CCS is a simple-minded idea based on a first impression. You’d think we would have learned from the past that we shouldn’t rush to apply new technologies before we know what the long-term effects will be. Carbon capture and storage may be worth studying, but the technology’s potential should not be used as an excuse for the oil and coal industries to avoid reducing their emissions and investing in renewable energy. After all, we know that energy conservation and renewable energy will yield immediate effects of a cleaner environment.
Lorne Gunter is absolutely certain that the climate change scientists are all part of some massive international conspiracy to keep him from buying cheap gasoline.
Patricia Robertson seems very confused about how different Harper and Tommy Douglas are.
Mr. Ignatieff, rural Canada -- as you may already suspect -- currently belongs to Stephen Harper. There's a reason for that: He's one of us.
When he's not proroguing Parliament or scanning the latest National Geographic for any positive words on the tar sands, Mr. Harper is working on a hockey book. You, meanwhile, taught at Harvard and pen brainy non-fiction tomes.
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Unlike our sainted Tommy Douglas, you don't have one gram of grassroots folksiness, so don't bother to affect it. You aren't a Baptist minister; you're probably one of those dreaded secular humanists such as Kurt Vonnegut.
Susan Riley
In the U.S. -- as outlined in a persuasive speech this week from President Barack Obama -- but elsewhere, too, governments are grappling with two urgent challenges: The economy and the environment. In Canada, our politicians are fretting about gang crime.
That's it for today. Have fun!