Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024 worst year for Ontario ER closures, CBC analysis finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/data-analysis-er-closures-three-years-2024-worst-year-for-scheduled-closures-1.7396789
* 1/5 hospitals with an ER or urgent care centre had unplanned shutdowns
Comment: it's this crap that gets incumbent governments voted out of office
A Wolf in Cheap Clothing
@persagen@mastodon.social
It's all part of #DougFraud's plan to #Privatize all #Healthcare!
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
@AWolfInCheapClothing Yup! 🤔
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024 worst year for Ontario ER closures, CBC analysis finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/data-analysis-er-closures-three-years-2024-worst-year-for-scheduled-closures-1.7396789
* 1/5 hospitals with an ER or urgent care centre had unplanned shutdowns
Comment: it's this crap that gets incumbent governments voted out of office
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Poilievre’s Free Ride to Power Has to Stop
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113589736621710285
* glib/shallow answers to basic questions
* improving Canadians’ lives
* affordable housing crisis?
* secrecy
* anti-{environmentalism | carbon tax}
* climate change denial
* populism
* anti-LGBT/transphobia
* anti-press, anti-journalism
#Canada #Poilievre #Trumpism #conservatism #protofascism
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #transphobia #populism
#ClimateDenial #duplicity #secrecy #censorship
#CostPlatforming #DemocraticBacksliding
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Exit Poll Reveals Why Trump Beat Harris: Voters most concerned 3 issues
https://newrepublic.com/post/188979/donald-trump-kamala-harris-exit-poll
2024 Post-Election Survey: Ideological Debates in the Election
https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-ideological-debates-in-the-election
Ta Da (incumbent Democrat, Liberal dimwits)!
*most important issues to 2024 U.S. voters:
inflation/cost of living # i.e. money
immigration/border # i.e. racism, white supremacism, xenophobia
jobs/economy # money, again
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/12/04/Scurvy-Canada-Symptom-Sick-Politics
And it reveals much about how we approach fairness and human rights.
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
/1 Food insecurity everywhere
* sh. be profoundly embarrassing to any gov. if its people develop scurvy
* predictable outcome of rising foods costs since pandemic
* medical harm done to millions of us
* Food Banks Canada: HungerCount 2024 [2]
* food banks 2M visits March 2024: +6% f. March 2023; +90% f. 2019
* 1/3 children
* 40% on social assistance/disability
* 18% EMPLOYED: lg. recorded %
* B.C. food banks: 225k visitors March 2024: +15% f. 2023; +81% f. 2019
* children: 70K those visits
...
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
/2 * Lancet study [3]
* life expectancies 2000-2021 in 10 groups defined by ethnicity, geographical location, metropolitan status, income ...
* “America 10” - American Indians and Alaska Natives in the w. U.S. - only group to experience substantial declines in life expectancy; largest decline from 2019-2021
* 2021: gap between highest/lowest life expectancy 20.4 years
...
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
/3 The cure for political scurvy is not for the rich to ignore the poor,
but for everyone to redefine the national purpose.[4]
If we decide that every Canadian must be well housed, well fed and
well cared for, then we will live in a nation as healthy as ourselves.
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
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[1] Scurvy in 65-y.o. woman w. severely limited function, social supports
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/196/33/E1144
[2] [Food Banks Canada] HungerCount 2024
https://foodbankscanada.ca/hungercount
[3] Ten Americas: Systematic Analysis of Life Expectancy Disparities in USA
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01495-8
[4] Stuart, Victoria A. 2024. Social Democracy
https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/social_democracy.pdf
#USpol #CanPol #politics #FoodSecurity
#PoliticalCorruption #PoliticalApathy #populism
#FailureToGovern #FailureToLead
#billionaires #capitalism #corporations
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Report: British Columbia’s child poverty rate trending upwards
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/reports-find-b-c-s-child-poverty-rate-trending-upwards-1.7133115
*report by First Call Child & Youth Advocacy Society
* sharp rise in child poverty across B.C.
* 1/6 children living below poverty line, worsening
* 25 policy recommendations
increase minimum wage
scale up affordable housing
improve access to child-care & transportation
https://firstcallbc.org
https://firstcallbc.org/2024-bc-child-poverty-report-card
https://firstcallbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/First_Call_Report_Card_2024_Dec-3-final-2.pdf
#Canada #BritishColumbia #poverty #ChildPoverty
#PoliticalApathy #
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Senior says he spent nearly 60 hours in a Vancouver hospital hallway after surgery
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/senior-says-he-spent-nearly-60-hours-in-a-vancouver-hospital-hallway-after-surgery-1.7134288
* emergency surgery to have his gallbladder removed at Vancouver General Hospital
* after surgery moved into hallway while he recovered
* noise & lack of privacy made it impossible to get any rest
#Canada #BritishColumbia #PublicHealth #healthcare #VGH #PoliticalApathy #HealthCrisis
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Wonder why rents so high? Investors comprised 25% of British Columbia homebuyers - StatsCan
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113602426547427007
#corporations #CorporateGreed #PrivateEquity #REITs #billionaires #oligarchy
#profiteering #affordability #inflation #AffordableHousing #PoliticalApathy
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Ontario man says 911 put him on hold 3 times as armed group broke into his home
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gta-man-calls-911-put-on-hold-three-times-1.7403847
* call to change 911 wait times in Greater Toronto Area
* 'please hold' response: "OPP, please hold, OPP please hold"
* OPP: Ontario Prov. Police
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