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  • My comment applies to provinces too. In Quebec, the health minister was solely educated in business, and worked exclusively in accounting and finance before joining politics. Based on that, I doubt he ever set foot in a hospital (unless as a patient), yet is expected to be making decisions impacting thousands of physicians across dozens of specialties?

    Similarly, if I was a large company's CEO, I wouldn't hire a doctor who worked in a hospital their whole life to become the CFO of the company, where they would need to publish quarterly reports, draft financial statements, and submit accounting documents to government agencies. Maybe they can delegate those tasks to actual accountants, but would their decisions make sense long term? If not, why are we okay with the reverse?

  • Managing healthcare should not be the job of a minister chosen every 4 years. It should be a non-partisan position, chosen maybe by the government but mainly based on competence and track record.

    In the US, Powell and Yellen chaired the federal reserve under both Democratic and Republican governments, not because they were elected for this position, but because they have worked at various levels of government and industry.

    On the other hand, this scenario cannot happen in Canada since the ministers are all elected, so unless economists and doctors are running and get elected, they would have to choose ministers without the right qualifications. Even if a doctor is elected, they would still need to spend a considerable amount of time to participate in MP duties, or would otherwise be replaced within 4 years; this time could have been spent on actually implementing useful policies.

  • There's some deep irony that the vaccine mandate was introduced almost 200 years ago in the US by a governor that would run under the National Republican party for the subsequent election. By politicizing and empowering vaccine denial, they are attacking a centenary policy, which is against the philosophy of conservatism ("commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation." according to Google).

  • I don't understand why prevention is not a priority. Free mobile vaccination clinic going to schools, workplaces, retirement community. Health professionals (PT, nurses, pharmacists) checking in by phone with patients at risk of hospitalization. More accessible and cheaper MRI/CTs for common high risk groups, without the need of multiple referrals.

    Those are cost effective measures that can keep many patients out of hospitalization, especially preventable ones.

  • By using the computing resources of others' servers to mine cryptocurrency, the cybercriminals can profit at the expense of the compromised organizations, whose CPU and GPU performance is degraded by the mining.

    Oh boy, where do I start...

  • If a company agrees to buy the business, then it means it has value for them. If that's the case, why can Canada Post not derive value from SCI, but Metro can? Also, what will they do with the money they earned - will they reinvest it in growing services that are highly in demand?

  • However, Davidson also ruled there must be enough room in homeless shelters for displaced people and the camp must receive notice prior to the evictions. Without space in shelters police may only close those canps at risk to public health and safety, the judge added.

    Now, the question is how the matching will work, if there's any plan to match them.

  • But Ottawa had few details yet on what the program will look like for dental care providers. It's still unclear how dentist will sign up, how the billing process will work, and whether what Ottawa pays for scaling, filings, extractions and other services will match what current private insurance plans pay.

    Sounds like Ottawa is not really communicating their thoughts; or maybe even they don't really know what they are supposed to be doing? Is it all trial and error for now and until they find out what works before scaling?

  • I spent >100$ on concert tickets to listen to artists I found on Spotify. Probably would not have spent this money nor discovered those artists by listening to 50 songs downloaded 10 years ago from Limewire.

  • DP World will wind up with Hyperloop One’s intellectual property, Bloomberg reports, while the rest of its hard assets — including a test track outside Las Vegas and other machinery — will be sold off.

    Wonder how much of the value (if any) was in the IP, which will be solely owned by a company mainly focused on maritime trade.