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

#Canada #Ontario #USpol #CanPol #politics #governance
#PoliticalInertia #FailureToGovern #FailureToLead #PoliticalCorruption
#apathy #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #PoliticalDissafection
#populism #democracy #DemocraticBacksliding

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... and this is the crap that disaffects voters, gets right-wing/far-right populists (with no solutions or costing, of course) elected:

B.C. emergency room closed for 3rd time in 9 days
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113456880931668244

Halifax woman waited 3 years for MRI that showed she had brain tumor
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-3-years-mri-that-showed-she-had-brain-tumour-1.7398080

#USpol #CanPol #politics #governance
#PoliticalInertia #FailureToGovern #FailureToLead #PoliticalCorruption
#apathy #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #PoliticalDissafection #populism

Eby says new B.C. cabinet built around 'kitchen table' issues: affordability, homes
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/eby-says-new-b-c-cabinet-built-around-kitchen-table-issues-affordability-homes-1.7113321

Comments - we'll see
* I personally like Eby/voted NDP
* razor thin electoral victory
* As I state in Trump2 threads voter anger/abandonment over unaddressed social issues (food cost; inflation; housing; reduced public services: emerg. rooms/OR, 9-11 lines; employment ...) leads to incumbents voted out of office (regardless of egregiousness of opposition)

#VoterAnger #PoliticalInertia

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... and this is the crap that disaffects voters, gets right-wing/far-right populists (with no solutions or costing, of course) elected:

B.C. emergency room closed for 3rd time in 9 days
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-emergency-room-closed-for-3rd-time-in-9-days-1.7104642

* wealthy country
* pressing problems
* ineffectual leadership
* no solutions
* political stagnation
* suffering populace
* populist shills
* far-right blowback

#BC #politics #PoliticalInertia