Who Did You Vote For?

A spend-happy government with kleptocratic intentions and zero accountability? 

I thought so:

The study looked at Canadian emergency doctor burnout rates in December 2020, and then burnout rates reported by the same doctors in the fall of 2022, when emergency rooms were slammed with simultaneous tidal waves of respiratory syncytial virus and COVID when kids returned to school. ...

(Sidebar: let's not be so dramatic.) 

Today, emergency rooms are still filled with sick people waiting to be moved to the wards. In Ontario, the average wait time in May was 18.8 hours. Fewer than a third were moved to a bed within the government’s eight-hour target. Emergency departments are reporting record levels of “boarding,” a dehumanizing practice of holding patients in hallways or makeshift spaces after they’ve been admitted because there are no open beds upstairs. In Nova Scotia, emergency department deaths hit a six-year high last year, CTV reported, increasing to 666 deaths in 2023, from 558 the previous year.

Some are waiting hours with as-yet undiagnosed heart attack or strokes, conditions that need time-sensitive treatments like drugs to bust clots and restore blood flow to brains, “obscured from view amidst the chaos,” according to a Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians task force.

According to a report published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, if recently published analyses of weekly deaths attributable to emergency overcrowding in the United Kingdom hold true in Canada — and there’s no reason they shouldn’t, given Canada’s crowding statistics are even worse than Britain’s — an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 Canadians are dying each year as a result of hospital overcrowding.

You do not emphasise training, you do not train enough medical professionals, you do not prioritise treatments, new medications, apply forward thinking, or ponder what would happen if you just throw more patients into the mix. Not even the migrant substitutes will stay longer in the system than they have to. 

But you voted for this:

Easy Street Diner at 3625 Dutch Village Rd. opened in 2021 and while co-owner Kelly-Jo Beck says it’s always felt like “a bit of a knife fight to stay in business,” this year has been the worst.

She and her partner Lalanya both took Monday and Tuesday off this week — the first “weekend” they’ve both taken off all year — only to return to find a power issue tripped a breaker, turning off all the kitchen line fridges and forcing them to open later after having to throw out all the prep.

While the diner is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, Beck said they’ve been using those days to handle dessert commissions, fulfill catering jobs, finish additional prep for the week, perform deep cleaning, and stay on top of maintenance.

“It is really hard not to feel like we’re being punished by the universe for trying to eke out some semblance of humanity. It’s not even balance at this point, we are literally chasing our basic needs of sleep and nutrition,” Beck wrote in a heartfelt social media post.

 

A real country would deport the cheap labour:

Organizers behind a protest seeking exemptions for foreign workers from a recent change in P.E.I.'s immigration rules say they have not made any progress with the provincial government.

Some of the affected newcomers, most of whom are from India, held a news conference Thursday in Charlottetown to share their personal stories and clear up misinformation and hate they say is circulating online.

"We have been portrayed [with] the wrong picture online," Jaspreet Singh Sivia said.

"It was never our notion to be entitled to [permanent residency] or be demanding. We are in that position where we can only request." 

 

Is that so? 

Again:

 

The strike was about coddling the unions.

The unions just didn't realise how useless they are in this scenario:

A deal reached between the LCBO and the union representing its workers is in jeopardy just hours after the two sides announced a two-week-long strike would soon be coming to an end.

Early on Friday afternoon, both the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the LCBO said they had reached an agreement to bring more than 9,000 workers back onto the front lines and reopen liquor stores across Ontario after a lengthy stalemate.

The Crown agency said if the deal is ratified by members, the strike would end at 12:01 a.m. on July 22 and stores would open the next day.

Later in the afternoon, however, the two sides suggested the tentative agreement — which would still need to be accepted by workers — was in danger of collapse.

Both sides went from celebrating the agreement after weeks of deadlock to accusing each other of acting in bad faith.

The union alleged that the LCBO had not signed a return-to-work protocol and without that, they could not agree to a deal.

“We were prepared to announce this deal,” OPSEU spokesperson Katie Arnup said at the start of what was supposed to be a press conference about the agreement.

“The premier said there was a deal. But the employer is now refusing to sign that protocol. Our return-to-work protocol is necessary for workers to go back to work in the event of a strike. Without that document signed we do not have a deal. The strike continues.”

Ahem:

The Government of Ontario has announced a new searchable and interactive map to help consumers find local retailers and producers for their favorite beer, cider, wine, and spirits. This new interactive map connects you to over 2,300 retailers across Ontario, including more than 1,000 local producers. Use this map to find local wineries, breweries and distilleries, licensed grocery or big-box grocery stores, LCBO Convenience Outlets and other retailers that currently sell alcohol across Ontario.