A Voice from Haiti, Who We Are Further Victimizing
This morning I wrote about how we and the French are continuing to rip off Haiti 7 months after their earthquake. Today I read about one woman’s experiences. She sounds so much like us. Getting to the human level during these kind of existential events, we always see that “they” are just like “us”. I [...]
The CFS OnePassNow Campaign Defeats BC Liberal Cuts
The Canadian Federation of Students’ One Pass Now campaign has succeeded in forcing the BC Liberal government to fund superior transit options for post-secondary students in BC. But this win is no cause for complacency. The government announced yesterday funding to ensure discounted fares for students around the province. The CFS declared a victory holding [...]
Reports from Haiti by CUPE and the Red Cross
Claude Genereux, Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE, Canada’s largest union, shares his impressions on where Haiti is at 4 months after their devastating earthquake, which compounded the neoliberal economic earthquake Canada and others have been perpetrating on Haiti for decades. Saddest for me is the lack of time and opportunity for children to play. This is why [...]
Liveblogging the “Public Health Care: How can we sustain it?” Forum
The BC Health Coalition is holding the “Public Health Care: How can we sustain it?” forum tonight in Burnaby. Below is the liveblog underneath the description of the event here: We increasingly hear that more private for-profit health care is needed to ensure that our public health care system remains “sustainable”. Is this really true? [...]
Liveblogging the BC Ombudsperson’s Presentation on Seniors’ Care
This afternoon BC Ombudsperson Kim Carter will be speaking to at the BC Health Coaltion’s Seniors’ Forum in Burnaby. She released her interim report in December 2009 called “The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1)”. We expect her final report before summer sets in. Her talk starts at [...]
Free Public Forum: Public Health Care: How can we sustain it?
If there’s internet available, I’ll be live-blogging this. If not, watch for a blog piece at the end! The BCHC is excited to host a free public forum that will explore the motivation behind, and implications of, expanded for-profit health care in BC and Canada. Friday May 14th 7:00pm Firefighters Conference 6515 Bonsor Street Burnaby [...]
The Government is Storing Your Baby’s DNA: Did You Know/Consent?
New law may create largest DNA database in Canada Recent revelations that B.C.’s health authorities are secretly storing and testing children’s DNA without parental consent, combined with provisions of Bill 11 that allow B.C.’s Minister of Health to gather information like these DNA records without notice or consent, have resulted in a call from the [...]
Healthcare Before Olympics: Michael Moore-Style
We’re days away from the end of the $8 billion obscene Olympic party. Last year, BC’s health authorities were defunded by $360 million. Cut, cut, cut. Soon the 16-day bash will be over, the guests will leave and we’ll return the empties. Then we’ll walk around the house and tally up the damage. Holes kicked [...]
Danny Williams, Class War, and the Illusion of Choice
I was going to write something about the Newfoundland and Labrador premier skipping to Florida for minor heart surgery. He said, “This is my heart, it’s my health, it’s my choice.” I was going to write about how obvious the two-tier [class war] society is emerging in Canada. I was going to write about how [...]
Protesting the Corporate-Debauched Olympics
I’ve spent the weekend reflecting on the success of various confrontations to the Olympic brand and the emerging global corporate feudalism. I’ll start off with a recognition that I’m sitting here in my “I am a free speech zone” t-shirt, having celebrated Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year and observed Vancouver’s Missing Women Memorial March, [...]
BC NDP Convention Minus 5 Days: Why We’re the Natural Governing Party of BC
I had this amazing daydream a few weeks after we failed to win the election last May. The NDP is the naturally governing party of BC, so when the legislature was to open earlier this fall/summer, the NDP MLAs should stroll in there and behave as if we actually represent the poorest 95% of British [...]
My New BPA-free SIGG Bottle: I’m Still Bothered
The consumer uproar has been eye-opening for SIGG CEO Steve Wasik. He thought going green just meant being good to the earth; he didn’t realize it meant fessing up too. “Being a green company also means being held to the highest degree of corporate transparency,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I fully expect that SIGG [...]
Which Politicians Think We’re Imbeciles?
When I try to infer the mental state of some politicians from what they say publicly, I can only conclude that they must think we’re too profoundly stupid that we’d not be able to think for 3 seconds to realize that they are full of shit. Let’s look at Kevin Falcon and Gregor Robertson. Health [...]
Healthcare as a Human Right for Americans?
Americans have had it rough, what with their rabidly individualistic, anti-communitarian history and social policy. From that, they have a hard time embracing things of the common good, like healthcare being a human right. The current debate, with the wingnut lunacy of greedy hyper-individualists wanting to keep poor people without healthcare that others would have [...]
Shirley Bond’s Marie Antoinette Complex
shirleybond The heat wave continues-imagine being loaded on an Air Canada flight and then sitting on the tarmac in the heat for an hour – yup it was me!10:45 PM Jul 29th from web Shirley Bond should keep using Twitter so we can see a better sense of her lack of empathy and perspective. Former [...]
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