What do they think will happen? Delaying this until the summer break and then just ride it out to the election? :p
The newly appointed board of directors of the Ontario Health super agency held its inaugural meeting on Monday with no advance notice or invitation to the public, raising questions about transparency.
Meantime, more than 200 board members of 20 smaller agencies that are being swallowed up by Ontario Health were abruptly and quietly sacked last week, leaving some with hard feelings
"Ontario Health board meetings are not required to be open to the public but the board recognizes the need to engage Ontarians in continually improving their health-care system. The board will be required to establish mechanisms for public engagement to ensure openness and transparency," read the statement
The new chair is Bill Hatanaka, a former professional football player with the Ottawa Rough Riders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Hatanaka currently serves as a corporate director of Invesco Canada, RP Investment Advisors and ICE NGX Canada Ltd.
Of course. Because if there is one person I trust to make sound healthcare decisions, it's a former professional football player! They are definitely the leading expert on all things healthcare and will make amazing decisions for our healthcare agency!
He may be qualified
Ken Dryden did a lot after his NHL career so not all pro athletes are know nothings
Yeah but this is Premier Drug Fraud we are talking about here.
The only qualifications he cares about is how well do I know you, did you vote for me and how much money did you give me and the party?
Let's be perfectly blunt: Ford has never demonstrated themselves to be a particularly sharp individual. His whole life has been him getting by due to inherited wealth and having a name that has allowed him to fail upwards to a disgusting and constant degree. At best this is about branding re: Rob coached a football team (which also led to his first major scandal) so let's get a football player in on this. At worst, it's equal parts willful malice and mismanagement (which is also on-brand), aka. the same thing the Ford government has been doing since being elected.He may be qualified
Ken Dryden did a lot after his NHL career so not all pro athletes are know nothings
I don't disagree, hence why I focused on Ford being Ford.I'm just saying you shouldn't write people off because they were a pro athlete
Better to criticize them for being a Ford buddy
Yea I know, but I won't criticize someone just because they were a pro football player, there are plenty of other things to criticize about this
None of which fill me with confidence that the guy has the best interests of the provincial healthcare program in mind.
If it came to that, depending on who you ask, we'd be the ONLY country Puerto Rico has been a part of.We will be the best country that Puerto Rico and Washington state have ever been a part of.
What do they think will happen? Delaying this until the summer break and then just ride it out to the election? :p
Having the committee meeting the same day as the budget, when the press gallery would otherwise be in the budget lockup, makes it look like you're planning to try to bury any news that comes out of the committee.
Publicly, former Liberal leader John Turner used to say that "the job of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is to oppose." Privately, though, he had a better term for Question Period and other televised political venues: "Bullshit Theatre."
He always got a laugh, but it was more than a joke. Turner was acknowledging that the opposition, with its constant, unstinting indignation about everything the government says or does, is a caricature.
For a variety of reasons, not the least of which is their struggle for a share of ink and airtime in the news media, opposition politicians behave like a pack of scent hounds. They have no shame because they know the system is unkind to anyone who does. Their rhetoric is both predictable and extreme; they believe it must be so, in order to make headlines, and they may be right. Still, anyone else who talked the way they do would be regarded as a crank.
Opposition is a caricature, and Scheer is a humid performer: Neil Macdonald
Just a good piece about one of the annoying background parts of democracy (especially parliamentarian) that gets more annoying the more attention you pay to politics.
In Regina, Scheer worked as an insurance broker, a waiter, and in the constituency office of Canadian Alliance MP Larry Spencer.
...Scheer was elected at age 25 as a Conservative candidate in the federal election of 2004, in the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle...
This was what people were saying during his leadership run. He'd basically only worked in federal politics all his adult life and has no real life experience. And yet his fake, pudgy self won and now he has to convince people he knows better.It randomly occurred to me this morning that I didn't know much about Scheer's education and job history and yeah so he has a BA in history and he's basically just been an MP for life.
People like to make fun of Trudeau for being a lightweight in the career category, but Scheer's done much, much less.
This was what people were saying during his leadership run. He'd basically only worked in federal politics all his adult life and has no real life experience. And yet his fake, pudgy self won and now he has to convince people he knows better.
They'd rather have racist white bread dough over Randian lawyer and bankerBernier almost won, which tells you about the state and ideology of the CPC.
It is scheduled to convene next week as it was originally schedule for after the break.
This tweet hasn't aged well.
Opposition is a caricature, and Scheer is a humid performer: Neil Macdonald
Just a good piece about one of the annoying background parts of democracy (especially parliamentarian) that gets more annoying the more attention you pay to politics.
It's only notable due to the hypocrisy of it. I'm not the kind of person who thinks that a person's career should exclude them from public office. It was wrong when the Tories engaged in it, but aside from pointing out the hypocrisy, I don't feel a need to turn the tables and do the same thing with Scheer. We have plenty of legitimate reasons to not want him elected as it is, anyways. Like the post directly above mine.It randomly occurred to me this morning that I didn't know much about Scheer's education and job history and yeah so he has a BA in history and he's basically just been an MP for life.
People like to make fun of Trudeau for being a lightweight in the career category, but Scheer's done much, much less.
Don't forget Canada having its own Christchurch with the 2017 mosque shooting in Quebec by that irredeemable Islamophobe whose name should be forgotten to time. I don't think most people are fully prepared for just how toxic this election cycle has been/will become.So, in the wake of the Christchurch shootings, my mind comes back to the upcoming federal elections... Bernier spouting the same bullshit that far-right people preach. Spreading fear through misinformation and grossly mischaracterizing immigration issues. And then we have Scheer, hanging out with the likes of Lahren and other white supremacists... and just, I don't know anymore. Anyone that votes for these assholes is selfish, don't pretend that it's not "fuck you, got mine."
I hope the Liberals form government. The Lavscan was outright the most stupid shit I've seen a party pull, just handled absolutely incompetently. I don't know, just ranting at this point...
I haven't forgotten, that one was far too close to home.Don't forget Canada having its own Christchurch with the 2017 mosque shooting in Quebec by that irredeemable Islamophobe whose name should be forgotten to time. I don't think most people are fully prepared for just how toxic this election cycle has been/will become.
I'm gonna need to pull at a thread here and hope nothing unravels, but...Again I'll say, any one who engages in, promotes, supports, or even stands idly by, right wing politics, is evil.
"I'm going to pull at a thread and hope nothing unravels?"I'm gonna need to pull at a thread here and hope nothing unravels, but...
What about people who are happy with Coalition Avenir for going ahead with its PR promises? They're a right-wing party introducing a bi-partisan proposal for what I see as the public good. Surely it's motivated by political self-interest, but one of the greatest victories in politics for the general population is when a political party's self-interest happens to align with the common good.
Does being happy about a right-wing party fulfilling such a promise make someone "evil"?
Education Minister of Ontario speaking now. Won't be able to listen but I hope it's not a giant tire fire, but so far it's nothing but fluff bs intro.
Larger HS classes but outside of that a nothingburger. Curious to see when it will come down the pipe because it's coming, that's for certain.
We knew this was coming when the order came out for a hiring freeze this year.
We knew this was coming when the order came out for a hiring freeze this year.
Don't forget Canada having its own Christchurch with the 2017 mosque shooting in Quebec by that irredeemable Islamophobe whose name should be forgotten to time. I don't think most people are fully prepared for just how toxic this election cycle has been/will become.
Doug Ford's government is a government of grifters.
It claims to be a truck-stop government: "For The People," and other nonsense. That's while holding $1,600-per-plate fundraisers — known as "cash-for-access" fundraisers back when the Liberals were doing it — after gutting the law that the previous administration put in place to stop wealthy stakeholders from purchasing access to provincial lawmakers. (After the Liberals had their fill, it should be noted.)
Does it count as a hit piece if it's an editorial by a centrist/conservative leaning writer?They're really going to want to can CBC now:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5057448
Finally someone says it.
Wasn't it revealed that he was probably not the one to actually take the shooter down, that police behind him were actually the ones firing on him? I remember this being a thing a week or two after the event, that he was being lauded for something he may not have done. Not to diminish his attempt, even if he wasn't the one who fired the shot.
Does it count as a hit piece if it's an editorial by a centrist/conservative leaning writer?
So is that a "yes", or....?"I'm going to pull at a thread and hope nothing unravels?"
Why are you like this? You don't need to dissect something that's clear as day.
Look at the world. If you can't figure it out then keep trying until you do.
You are truly exhausting.So is that a "yes", or....?
I'm like this because you presented an absolute and I fully recognized a blank spot in your statement that would clearly label someone as "evil" in your mind if the statement is taken at its face value. I gave you an opportunity to set the record straight so you could not be so easily misinterpreted and hoped that your judgment of those aligning with or abiding by the right-wing, while entirely justified, didn't include such a reasonable exception that could easily be construed as support of the right wing under the terms you stated. So no, what you said isn't "clear as day".
Should I have not given you the benefit of the doubt that you slightly overstated yourself and not permitted you the opportunity to set the record straight and amend yourself in the hope that you had a more reasonable meaning than what the words imply? If so, my mistake, and I'll just continue to understand that everything the right does or any praise a person might give them is inherently awful, regardless of context, in accordance with your statement.
I won't be berated or demeaned for allowing you to provide some clarity so that people don't have to feel belittled or shamed for not being the correct kind of progressive they might think that you expect them to be because of a statement that lacks any and all room for exception.