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There are 3 truths about Canadian healthcare that the public will acknowledge in the next two years:
1. Healthcare is collapsing across Canada because of decisions to underfund it over the past two decades.
For folks who say it’s unsustainable, we’ve been saying that for 30 years. Underfunding was not the solution to that problem.
The solution was (and still is!) making deliberate choices of what public healthcare is and isn’t (which we haven’t done either), linked to what we publicly fund and what we don’t.
We then have to regulate both of those markets effectively.
74% of Canadians say that health care in their province is in crisis. The CMA and its counterparts urge leaders to stabilize our #CDNhealth system for timely patient care and safe, well-resourced environments for health professionals. ctvnews.ca/politics/provinci…
Fitting to be speaking about anger and outrage on this Nation Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Truth comes before Reconciliation, but so does healing. That often comes with accepting and helping process some pretty powerful emotions.
#NDTR #EveryChildMatters
From award-winning physician, @AlikaMD, comes an exploration of how anger and a sense of betrayal deepen into outrage when we lose hope that change is possible @SimoneGavros. FULL INTERVIEW: chch.com/morning-live/a-guid…
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.@AlikaMD, author of The Outrage Cure, will be delivering this year's Rockwood Lecture at the Sunshine Coast Festival for the Written Arts on August 15 @ 8pm PT. Get your ticket: bit.ly/4cdqTLH
Really excited to join past Rockwood Lecture presenters like @CarolOff_, @GregorCraigie and @Puglaas.
Each spoke to pressing issues — language, housing, reconciliation. I’ll be adding outrage to that list.
Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt — Aug 15, 8pm.
.@AlikaMD, author of The Outrage Cure, will be delivering this year's Rockwood Lecture at the Sunshine Coast Festival for the Written Arts on August 15 @ 8pm PT. Get your ticket: bit.ly/4cdqTLH
Thanks for the great conversation @erinotoole 🙏🏽
Far too many Canadians experienced falling outs with family or friends during the pandemic. Can those rifts be healed? How do we bridge differences in the social media age? The latest Blue Skies podcast explores this with author @AlikaMD
youtu.be/4q4-NMpEjqE?si=EqZA…
If your knee jerk reaction w/ Bill C-34 the Safe Social Media Act is to focus on govt overreach, right now tech companies surveillance is in every part of our lives w/ zero civilian oversight, no ability to vote out and minimal ability to regulate because we never pass any laws.
Such an honour to be recognized among fellow alumni. 🥰
Leadership rooted in service, collaboration, and impact.
We are proud to recognize Dr. Alika Lafontaine as the 2026 recipient of the Belzberg Blaney Award for Exceptional Service. @AlikaMD
actioncanada.ca/honouree/202…
#ActionCanada #IndigenousLeadership #IndigenousHealth
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The forever problem with Canadian competitiveness is the chronic tolerance of weak competition policy and regulators in allowing monopolists to swallow competitors over and over again...telecom, banking, retail, media, oil and gas...
Canadians wondering why food inflation is still 6.2%?
The problem is right below 👇
An oligopoly of three major grocery chains with virtually no real competition.
They monopolize shopping plazas, lock out competitors with predatory lease rules, and control pricing from farm to checkout.
This isn’t inflation — it’s market power.
Read this book years ago and it’s essential reading for each of my kids.
It's now happening. The existing fiat monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order are all breaking down, so we are at the brink of wars. It all is happening because of the Big Cycle that is driven by the five big forces I've described repeatedly and laid out in detail in my book and Youtube video titled Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order. You can find the video linked in the comments below.
International relations should always be about the long game.
Liberals win #Election2025
Hope there’s soul searching by the Conservative Party on how it needs to change in coming months
Live in rural Alberta w/ many Progressive Conservative friends quietly sharing they are voting Liberal today.
Reform friends who also hear this tell me “those PCs weren’t REAL conservatives anyways.”
If you want to win elections, that’s probably the wrong answer.
#Election2025
Live in rural Alberta w/ many Progressive Conservative friends quietly sharing they are voting Liberal today.
Reform friends who also hear this tell me “those PCs weren’t REAL conservatives anyways.”
If you want to win elections, that’s probably the wrong answer.
#Election2025
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The Canadian Medical Association (@cma_docs) has launched its National Physician Health Survey. With anxiety and burnout on the rise in our profession, the survey will provide information we need to build a stronger, safer, more inclusive health workforce bit.ly/4iRhjPw
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We’ve passed the halfway point in the campaign, and some Conservatives are questioning the validity of polls.
Is it proof of trouble in Tory ranks? @ChantalHbert & Rob Russo discuss.
Listen on @CanadaTalks167 & podcast platforms at noon EST.
📍youtu.be/0dNU729C8rQ
