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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 2, 2024

[thread] Failure to lead, govern

Political apathy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_apathy

* lack of interest/apathy towards politics
* voter apathy, information apathy
ack of interest in elections, political events, public meetings, voting

Political alienation

* the sense that voters feel like the political system does not work for them & any attempt to influence it will be a fruitless exercise

#USpol #CanPol #politics
#PoliticalCorruption #apathy #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #populism #NoFreeLunch

Political apathy - Wikipedia

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3, 2024

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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

Halifax woman waited 3 years for MRI that showed she had brain tumour | CBC News

A Halifax resident is frustrated after waiting more than three years for an MRI that showed a benign brain tumour and she’s worried others are suffering because of an inefficient system.

CBC

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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

2024 worst year for Ontario ER closures, CBC analysis finds | CBC News

Over the past three years, at least 38 hospitals with emergency rooms or urgent care centres in Ontario have experienced closures — about one in five of the province's 176 publicly funded facilities. Most are in rural areas.

CBC

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3, 2024

Poilievre’s Free Ride to Power Has to Stop
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113589736621710285

* glib/shallow answers to basic questions

* improving Canadians’ lives
* affordable housing crisis?
* secrecy
* anti-{environmentalism | carbon tax}
* climate change denial
* populism
* anti-LGBT/transphobia
* anti-press, anti-journalism

#Canada #Poilievre #Trumpism #conservatism #protofascism
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #transphobia #populism
#ClimateDenial #duplicity #secrecy #censorship
#CostPlatforming #DemocraticBacksliding

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3, 2024

Exit Poll Reveals Why Trump Beat Harris: Voters most concerned 3 issues
https://newrepublic.com/post/188979/donald-trump-kamala-harris-exit-poll

2024 Post-Election Survey: Ideological Debates in the Election
https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-ideological-debates-in-the-election

*most important issues to 2024 U.S. voters:
inflation/cost of living
immigration/border
jobs/economy

# i.e. money; racism/white supremacism/xenophobia; money, again

#USpol #CanPol #politics
#PoliticalCorruption #apathy #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #populism
#OpenGovernment #DirectDemocracy #CostPlatforming

Shocking Exit Poll Reveals Why Trump Beat Harris

Voters were most concerned with these three issues.

The New Republic

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

Scurvy in Canada a Symptom of Our Sick Politics
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/12/04/Scurvy-Canada-Symptom-Sick-Politics

* how we approach fairness, human rights
* scurvy: pathologic manifestation of deficiency in vitamin C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
* essent. role in metabolism
* 2023: medical report [1]
* since: 27 more cases, in Lac La Ronge Indian Band, n. Saskatchewan
* 1 case: misfortune; 27 more: criminal neglect

* not confined to n. SK
* scurvy a metaphor for our times
* sign that Canada is sicker and poorer than it wants to admit
...

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

/1 Food insecurity everywhere

* sh. be profoundly embarrassing to any gov. if its people develop scurvy
* predictable outcome of rising foods costs since pandemic
* medical harm done to millions of us
* Food Banks Canada: HungerCount 2024 [2]
* food banks 2M visits March 2024: +6% f. March 2023; +90% f. 2019
* 1/3 children
* 40% on social assistance/disability
* 18% EMPLOYED: lg. recorded %

* B.C. food banks: 225k visitors March 2024: +15% f. 2023; +81% f. 2019
* children: 70K those visits
...

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

/2 * Lancet study [3]

* life expectancies 2000-2021 in 10 groups defined by ethnicity, geographical location, metropolitan status, income ...
* “America 10” - American Indians and Alaska Natives in the w. U.S. - only group to experience substantial declines in life expectancy; largest decline from 2019-2021
* 2021: gap between highest/lowest life expectancy 20.4 years
...

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

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The cure for political scurvy is not for the rich to ignore the poor,
but for everyone to redefine the national purpose.[4]

If we decide that every Canadian must be well housed, well fed &
well cared for, then we will live in a nation as healthy as ourselves.

#USpol #CanPol #politics #FoodSecurity
#PoliticalCorruption #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #populism #NoFreeLunch
#FailureToGovern #FailureToLead
#billionaires #capitalism #corporations #profiteering #oligarchy #libertarianism

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

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[1] Scurvy in 65-y.o. woman w. severely limited function, social supports
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/196/33/E1144

[2] [Food Banks Canada] HungerCount 2024
https://foodbankscanada.ca/hungercount

[3] Ten Americas: Systematic Analysis of Life Expectancy Disparities in USA
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01495-8

[4] Stuart, Victoria A. 2024. Social Democracy
https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/social_democracy.pdf

#USpol #CanPol #politics #FoodSecurity
#PoliticalCorruption #PoliticalApathy #populism
#FailureToGovern #FailureToLead
#billionaires #capitalism #corporations

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

Report: British Columbia’s child poverty rate trending up
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/reports-find-b-c-s-child-poverty-rate-trending-upwards-1.7133115

*report, First Call Child & Youth Advocacy Soc.
* sharp rise in child poverty across B.C.
* 1/6 children below poverty line/worsening
* 25 policy recommendations
increase minimum wage
scale up affordable housing
improve access to child-care & transportation

https://firstcallbc.org
https://firstcallbc.org/2024-bc-child-poverty-report-card
https://firstcallbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/First_Call_Report_Card_2024_Dec-3-final-2.pdf

#Canada #BritishColumbia #poverty #ChildPoverty
#PoliticalApathy #FailureToGovern

Reports find B.C.’s child poverty rate trending upwards

A new report by First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society reveals a sharp rise in child poverty across the province.

British Columbia

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 5, 2024

[Canada - British Columbia] Senior says he spent nearly 60 hours in a Vancouver hospital hallway after surgery
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/senior-says-he-spent-nearly-60-hours-in-a-vancouver-hospital-hallway-after-surgery-1.7134288

* emergency surgery to have his gallbladder removed at Vancouver General Hospital
* after surgery moved into hallway while he recovered
* noise & lack of privacy made it impossible to get any rest

#Canada #BritishColumbia #PublicHealth #healthcare #VGH #PoliticalApathy #HealthCrisis

Senior says he spent nearly 60 hours in a Vancouver hospital hallway after surgery

A 70-year-old man says he spent nearly 60 hours in the hallway of Vancouver General Hospital after surgery.

British Columbia

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 5, 2024

Wonder why rents so high? Investors comprised 25% of British Columbia homebuyers - StatsCan
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113602426547427007

#corporations #CorporateGreed #PrivateEquity #REITs #billionaires #oligarchy
#profiteering #affordability #inflation #AffordableHousing #PoliticalApathy

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 10, 2024

Ontario man says 911 put him on hold 3 times as armed group broke into his home
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gta-man-calls-911-put-on-hold-three-times-1.7403847

* call to change 911 wait times in Greater Toronto Area
* 'please hold' response: "OPP, please hold, OPP please hold"
* OPP: Ontario Prov. Police

#CanPol #politics #Ontario #Toronto #MTA
#PoliticalCorruption #apathy #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #FailureToLead #FailureToServe
#911 #OPP #PublicServices

GTA man says 911 put him on hold 3 times as armed group broke into his home | CBC News

Theo Meadows says he and his daughter were held at gunpoint by an armed group demanding valuables. He says he was put on hold three times during the ordeal and is speaking out to prompt changes to the service.

CBC