Talk to anyone who has had to seek medical treatment in the United States and the first question is usually: were you insured? And, if they say yes: how much did you have to pay anyway?
The American healthcare industry, worth $4.5 trillion, is the country’s largest private employer and makes up more than 17 per cent of the economy. It is also the source of a frustration so deep and widespread that when Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the insurer UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down on a busy New York street last week, the public reaction was strikingly divided.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith does not mince words speaking with Postmedia this day.
There are those suggesting Alberta start sabre-rattling and threatening U.S. President-elect Donald Trump with either completely cutting off Alberta oil to the Americans or taxing the oil heading south.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s four-day trip to Europe in June 2024 came with a hefty price tag for Canadian taxpayers, with records showing $71,000 spent on food alone, including $43,000 on inflight catering.
The total cost of the trip, which included stops in Italy and Switzerland for a G7 Summit and a Summit on Peace in Ukraine, amounted to at least $918,000.
For all the good the entitled twit did he could have just asked someone to mail him a summary of the talks.
It's racist not to give a non-white person a driver's license in Canada, especially if s/he is from another country. @fancypants_shttps://t.co/wOXotqGkWu
McKinsey & Co. agreed to pay $650 million in a deferred prosecution agreement that will resolve a federal criminal probe into the company’s consulting work advising Purdue Pharma on how to increase sales of its opioid painkiller OxyContin, a court filing said Friday.
A former top partner at McKinsey, Martin Elling, also agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice next month in the probe by the Department of Justice, according to a filing in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia.
The criminal charging document that McKinsey agreed to have filed by prosecutors alleges the consulting giant “knowingly and intentionally” conspired with Purdue Pharma “and others to aid and abet the misbranding of prescription drugs.”
Sociopaths, psychopaths do well in business. h/t DS
As Canada’s economy struggles under the carbon tax and threats of a production cap in Alberta, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has announced Canada will slash C02 emissions 45 to 50% below 2005 levels by 2035.
“Guilbeault is suggesting even more draconian emission reductions for Canada by 2035 and we all know that implies production cuts in Alberta,” said Calgary-based energy expert and commentator Dennis McConaghy.
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The pro-carbon tax propaganda continues.
The Toronto Star’s @aballinga reports on an unpublished, non-peer-reviewed study funded by Environment Canada, claiming the carbon tax has no impact on food prices in Canada.
Toronto police homicide detectives failed to ask most of the people connected to Barry and Honey Sherman where they were at the time of the billionaire couple’s high-profile murders, documents unsealed by a court reveal. Seeking alibis is a crucial part of a murder investigation — it’s not fiction that it’s one of the first questions a detective on television or in a murder mystery asks of anyone close to the victim: Where were you when they were killed?
But in the days following the discovery of the Sherman bodies, police didn’t ask that question of family members, nor most business associates and others connected to the couple. Investigative sources say the lack of alibis is likely why Toronto homicide detectives have been unable to clear any of the many “persons of interest” suspected of having a hand in the killings.
Assisted suicide now accounts for nearly 1 in 20 deaths in Canada, newly-released government data indicates, a shocking number that some observers say should serve as a warning to American states and the United Kingdom as they consider the practice.
Canada’s deaths from assisted suicide now number more than 60,000 since it was legalized in 2016. A record-high 15,343 people died in Canada by assisted suicide in 2023, making up 4.7 percent of deaths in the country. An additional 4,000 patients requested medical aid in dying but did not receive it, as some were deemed ineligible, others withdrew requests, and some died before they could receive it.
Trudeau’s misrule has made Canada famous all over the world for all the wrong reasons.
Michael Higgins: Liberal government hate crime report pretends antisemitism doesn’t exist
“Hate persists when apathy prevails,” reads a new report on hate crimes by a federal government ombudsman who is supposed to be the “voice of the victim.”
Hate also persists if you just ignore it. For example, the report by the victims’ ombudsman specifically does not mention any attacks on Jews, Jewish institutions, or the alarming number of antisemitic protests in this country.
The Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime reports that there was a 32 per cent increase in 2023 in the number of hate crimes reported to police but ignores the fact that attacks on Jews increased 71 per cent that year.
This report is the product of an Elite which seeks to exonerate itself. Trudeau’s Liberals and the NDP support Islamist immigration, anti-zionist universities, schools and unions. Not to mention the demonetization of White Canadians under racist DEI and affirmative action programs. They kowtow to our enemies for their votes. They are criminals. Stupidly groups such as B’nai Brith embrace DEI as a means of working within the system. The system that assigns White people the role of perpetual villain as the apex oppressor of all humanity. Uh Huh.
Trump’s pick for health secretary claims the agency killed his uncle, President John F Kennedy. Now he wants Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former agent, to prove it
At about 12.30pm on November 22, 1963, President John F Kennedy was shot in the back and the head while riding in a motorcade through Dallas.
Speculation about who was behind the assassination began almost from the moment the bullets struck him and continues to resonate 61 years later, from the darkest corners of the internet to the highest echelons of power.
“The day that his brother died, my father’s first phone call was to the CIA desk officer at Langley,” one of Robert F Kennedy’s sons told the director Oliver Stone for a documentary in 2021. “And he asked them: did your people conduct this horror?”
When Chrystia Freeland rises in the House Monday to deliver the Fall Economic Statement – if she does – the country will be presented with a remarkable and disturbing sight.
The Finance Minister will read out a document that it is now known she does not agree with, charting an economic course she does not believe in, and that will repudiate promises to which she nailed her credibility just eight months ago.
After which, Justin Trudeau will in all probability fire her.
Former stripper and current murder convict Crystal Mangum confessed to lying about being raped by Duke Lacrosse players in an interview on the independent media outlet “Let’s Talk With Kat” on Thursday.
“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,” Mangum said. “[I] made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.”
Kathy defiantly wore her Duke Lacrosse t-shirt. Still have it.
Fourteen months after Hamas’s October 7 pogrom in southern Israel, many Quebecers share with many other Canadians a weariness — if not stronger emotions — over anti-Israel protesters blocking streets, bellowing through megaphones, and harassing Jewish businesses and neighbourhoods. Some of us, for various reasons, are particularly put-off by the sight of the protesters kneeling in prayer in the streets en masse.
When Donald Trump sat with world leaders in Paris last weekend to marvel at the restored Notre Dame cathedral, armed Islamist fighters in Syria were in jeeps on the road to Damascus finalising the fall of the Assad regime.
In this split screen moment of global news, the US president-elect, seated between the French first couple, still had an eye on the stunning turn of events in the Middle East.
“Syria is a mess, but is not our friend,” he posted the same day on his Truth Social network.
