8.17.2009

Six In The Morning

1 RECESSION HURTS CANADIANS' HEALTH A poll by the Canadian Medical Association says Canadians are putting off doctor and dentist appointments and buying perscriptions, and are skipping meals to save money. The CMA, which is in Saskatoon for its annual meeting, also says four out of 10 Canadians are feeling "stressed or overwhelmed by financial concerns. (CMA)

2 ADDING INSULT TO INJURY Our health care system has problems. Could a private option help? Nope, says Roy Romanow, who's at the CMA convention. (CJME)

3 NDP STICKS WITH TRADITION The federal New Democratic Party wrapped up its annual convention, held in Halifax this year. The message: stick to core party values--protecting regular Canadians from big business, banks and bullies in general. One notable thing that didn't happen: a name change to Democratic Party (since they're not new anymore). Too bad. I was looking forward to Canada having some DP action in federal politics. (If you understand that joke your cable bill is probably really big.) (NDP website, Toronto Star)

4 SAVED BY KENNEY Canada's immigration minister granted a temporary permit to save a former child soldier from deportation (CBC). It's the right thing to do. We're surprised minister Jason Kenney is on the good guy's side though, after his shenanigans last March. Kenney is now batting 50-50 in his quest for favourable Dog Blog coverage.

5 PSYCHOPATH BULLIES WIN AGAIN The United States can bomb disarmed countries that didn't attack it, detain and torture people on whims and bail out Wall Street thugs but it looks like it can't make public health care work. I guess everybody believed psycho Sarah Palin when she said President Obama would bring in death panels for unfit citizens. Maybe we need a wall to keep Americans out of Canada. (New York Times)

6 AC/DC ADDS TICKETS TO SOLD-OUT WINNIPEG SHOWS It's true. Could it happen here? (Winnipeg Free Press)

2 comments:

Pat said...

It probably will. It seems like it does every time there's a "big" concert. They block off a large amount of seats until they have the stage constructed and then once they have an idea of what the sightlines are going to be like they open they can open the ones on the fringes that still have a decent view of the action.

As long as you can cram a couple dozen more people in, they'll go for it.

Illuminations said...

Jesus, I feel for the old rock fans who are just hanging on by their finger nails to anything remotely rocking on a stadium level. Pretty sure we'll never have that in 20 years.