some new protocols... like building new (for profit) ltc facilities, and closing the old one here where i live. net number of new beds (where the wait list to get into ltc is 1-2 years long) zero.
but dr. felix soibelman said putting these protocols in place will still be challenging. soibelman, the president-elect of the emergency medicine section for the alberta medical association, used an analogy to describe the situation.
"we're trying to get a size 13 foot into a size 8 shoe and it's going to be very uncomfortable for awhile until we get maybe we get a size 12 shoe or size 13 shoe," he said.
"so that would be establishing the long-term care capacity that we're so desperately asking for."
we have issued a media advisory ... isn't it ridiculous that the media are not prepared to go to the media scrum and i'm eating my cookie," duckett said as he strode down the street.
"did you hear what i just said?" he replied when another reporter tried again to ask for reaction. "i said, "i'm eating my cookie.'"
is this the new version of "let them eat cake"? lol:lol2:
When I moved here back in the '90s, the government was all pandering to the rural voters. Small town? Want a hospital? Sure.
Then reality hit in around 1994, money was getting short, the rural voters didn't get everything they wanted under Getty. Klein slashed the seniors benefits (and they had some pretty prime ones).
If I hear the mantra "I built this country" one more time, I may snap. I just want to shake their hands and thank them "for voting Liberal while I was growing up" AND then thank them for keeping the Conservatives in power in Alberta for decades.
The Conservatives have always pandered to the oil patch and farmers. Cities need money but no, nothing. My property taxes are higher than they were in BC (gone up by 75% in 20 years) and yes this is primarily a municipal issue but if city's got their share from the province it wouldn't be so bad.
If we're going to talk about property taxes, I may implode.
Ours have gone up 20% in the last 3 years!
We are supposedly getting a new hospital (I'll believe it when they start digging) but we have a new swimming pool just about ready - cost: 109 MILLION.
They just voted down curbside recycling because it was going to cost an extra $4.70 a month and the people were SCREAMING angry about it. "Why should we pay for recycling when we can simply throw our garbage into the dump (or out the window) that cuts into our Timmies money, dontchaknow?" So the chumps at city hall decided to veto the bylaw amendment that would increase the Aquatera bill by $4.70 a month. Then two days later, they voted to increase property taxes by 7% this year. Increase in services: ZERO.
That sound you just heard was my head exploding.
Our property taxes (on a very modest house, with a one income (non-oilpatch) family - as I'm still in school - and three children) are over $400 a month.
I have to work when I graduate just to help pay our bloody taxes and utilities.
Well, maybe if they hand out free cookies it will at least give the kids something to eat...
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The Conservatives have always pandered to the oil patch and farmers.
Yup, and when the opportunity to actually make some money off royalties arose, it's the Tories who cowered before Almighty Big Oil and gave our resources away. I will not soon forget that.
Currently, in Edmonton, I pay a few cents under $30 to have my garbage and recycling picked up. So one hour's pay goes to have my rubbish taken away. Think if I tied up Stelmach and left him by the curb, they'd take him???
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When I moved here back in the '90s, the government was all pandering to the rural voters. Small town? Want a hospital? Sure.
Then reality hit in around 1994, money was getting short, the rural voters didn't get everything they wanted under Getty. Klein slashed the seniors benefits (and they had some pretty prime ones).
If I hear the mantra "I built this country" one more time, I may snap. I just want to shake their hands and thank them "for voting Liberal while I was growing up" AND then thank them for keeping the Conservatives in power in Alberta for decades.
The Conservatives have always pandered to the oil patch and farmers. Cities need money but no, nothing. My property taxes are higher than they were in BC (gone up by 75% in 20 years) and yes this is primarily a municipal issue but if city's got their share from the province it wouldn't be so bad.