nate007

I dunno, if the PCs select a well-spoken female leader and out-flank the NDP somewhat on the 'progressiveness' front, and they don't go into full privatization mode and sell off a bunch of crowns in the next four years, it would take a lot of wind out of the NDP's sails. I've been quite impressed in conversations with my MLA, Rochelle Squires. If they make Cameron Friesen or Kelvin Goertzen, etc. their next leader, the NDP would be licking their lips come 2023...

PCs pledge to phase out school taxes from property tax bills... Can't happen fast enough!

Also, $130,000 USD currently equals $181,000 CAD. Plus, he's too good to stay on the PR forever....

Love this idea. If taxes are paying for your healthcare, then there should be extra taxes on the things that you voluntarily consume that lead to you requiring more healthcare. https://www.chrisd.ca/2019/08/27/manitoba-green-party-sweet-drinks-sweet-drinks-tax/#.XWV3E_lKhpg

First thing I did after reading that it might fetch more than $3.5 million was Google Rick Harrison's net worth...

So much good stuff in this story! (It's about a pitcher whose 1991 minor-league baseball card showed him getting hit in the nuts) https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27425987?fbclid=IwAR05cC_K4RMMkCVvr4JuGQd4NzyJ9zDDbTh93e469hMIVkZgM04dRO7BC_E

Wab Kinew promises to offer two hours of free parking at all hospitals, which sounds alright in theory, but he admits he hasn't actually figured out how that will work, since parking lots are run by non-profit hospital foundations. He then commended someone for vandalizing a city parking meter, and gave a wink-and-nod statement saying people would essentially figure out how to stretch those two free hours into free all-day parking. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/parking-promise-ndp-1.5246723 This sounds about as well thought out as some of Hugh McFayden's desperate gems back in 2011.

Also, maybe players expressed concerns that public comments about their specific ailments and treatments violated the Manitoba Personal Health Information Act, and the Bombers are just covering their butts...

I'm going to call Ticketmaster the morning of with a $50 take it or leave it offer. 😃

Whoops!

They'd expect to sell 25,000 seats via walk-up? If they aren't in manic mode yet, they're delusional. They will need to cut the remaining tickets by at least 50-70% to even come close to getting a respectable crowd.

Anyone have a stream? My Youtube guy's account was suspended, and I can't find the CFL streams Reddit thread...

That really sucks. I live near the Bishop Greenway, and actually went to the community consultation on it at IGF. Would've been awesome to get to the transit corridor and the other side of the Bishop path without crossing Pembina and its on/off ramps at grade. And for what? An eighth of the price of the Waverley underpass?

So do you have any inside info on when the Bishop Grandin pedestrian overpass over Pembina is finally going to be built? 🙂

You guys gotta remember that Brandon was one of the most vocal opponents around here last fall when it came to opening Portage and Main to pedestrians because he didn't want to spend an extra couple of minutes per day on his commute, so of course driving an extra ten or fifteen minutes to the south end is gonna grind his gears. 😉 😁 /ducks

Good news for folks working around True North Square! https://www.chrisd.ca/2019/07/18/hargrave-st-market-true-north-square/#.XTBzuflKhpg

Don't forget about the agility and frisbee-catching dogs! Sorry: novelty flying disc-catching dogs.

Ads have been showing up in my social media feeds, but that's the only place I've seen anything.

It's just too bad we spent that pick on Ekakatie...

I would just offer some sort of incentives for doctors to set up their own clinics at those locations (minimum patient volume guarantee or compensation for minimum billing shortfall). Just spitballing…

I agree, but the question was about how my proposal to put walk-in clinics next to ERs jived with the closing of Quick Care clinics. I guess what I never understood was what Quick Care clinics offered that family doctors and walk-ins don't. Nurse practitioners? Great, but why not just allow them to set up their own practices? I can't drive five minutes in Winnipeg without seeing a new doctor's office advertising that they are accepting patients.

Quick Care Clinics (at least the ones I'm aware of) had a lot of flaws that did not make them good for what I was describing. They weren't adjacent to hospitals, they had limited hours (like, worse than banks), and (at least when I went) you were encouraged to call ahead and make an appointment and were discouraged from walking in. They were very nice and modern inside though, so it wasn't surprising to see them snapped up by doctors when the leases were cancelled. The nurse practitioner model was also great, and needs to be expanded exponentially.

You're right, bumps in the road was underselling it. However, I'd prefer that they try something over just kicking the can down the road with the status quo that will never get better. The Vic transition to urgent care seems to have gone better than the Concordia and 7 Oaks (maybe folks in those areas are just making more noise?). That one seems to have had a more definitive plan and time frame. I still think that a good way to drive down wait times would be to re-direct people who have no business being at an ER (or Urgent care) in the first place. Set up a 24-hour walk-in beside each one and have the triage nurse tell them they can either wait 12 hours at the ER, or much less at the walk-in. They can't turn people with the sniffles away, but they could realistically present them with their options...

Politicians who try to implement changes like this are in a tough spot. It's not them doing the work, and 95% of them have no experience with anything like this, but they're going to get all the blame. Right now they're relying on the folks over at the WRHA to pull this off (Dr. Brock Wright ring a bell? he's been near the top there since long before this government came in), and of course there will be bumps in the road. Gotta give them credit for at least trying though...

After the NDP and the Bipole 3 fiasco, I had hope this time around...