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A test of Harper’s deficit nerve
TheStar.com – Opinion/columns – A test of Harper’s deficit nerve
November 26, 2008. Thomas Walkom
Two cheers for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He understands the severity of the global economic slump. He knows what has to be done. Now he just has to deliver.
Harper eloquently articulated his conversion from what-me-worry free-marketeer to alarmed Keynesian last weekend at a meeting of Pacific Rim nations in Peru.
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Another chance to give Ontario the rep its pop deserves
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/commentary – Another chance to give Ontario the rep its pop deserves
November 25, 2008. NORMAN SPECTOR
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Psychiatry: A specialty relegated to the basement
TheGlobeandMail.com – special/mental health – Psychiatry: A specialty relegated to the basement
November 24, 2008. CAROLYN ABRAHAM
Jai Shah could have been any sort of doctor he wished. Even before he graduated with honours from the University of Toronto’s medical school, the 30-year-old Edmonton native had earned a master’s degree in international health policy from the London School of Economics, published papers and worked for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Praise follows him wherever he goes. Except for last fall – when he decided to specialize in psychiatry.
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Kill section 13 [Hate speech]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/editorial – Kill section 13
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
‘The principal recommendation of this report is that section 13 be repealed so that the censorship of Internet hate speech is dealt with exclusively by the criminal law.” We can’t recall the last time reading 28 words gave us such an exquisite frisson.
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Obama’s digital devotees won’t settle for the old rules [digital influence on politics]
The GlobeandMail.com – Web-exclusive comment – Obama’s digital devotees won’t settle for the old rules
November 26, 2008. DON TAPSCOTT
It’s not just elections, but governing that will never be the same in America. Consider an e-mail I just received, addressed to Don, from David. That’s David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s campaign manager. “The inauguration is just 62 days away, and as President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden prepare to take office, they’ll need your support more than ever,” it said.
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‘A good way of doing triage’ [pharmacists prescribing for minor ailments]
TheStar.ca – Ontario/healthzone.ca – ‘A good way of doing triage’
November 23, 2008. Joseph Hall
A mortar bowl of controversy is now being ground in Ontario over the possibility pharmacists may soon be allowed to prescribe some of their own medicines for a number of minor ailments.
But in the United Kingdom, where the practice has been long established, it’s just what the doctor ordered.
“Quite a lot of the general practitioners in the U.K. see it as a good way of doing a bit of triage,” says Neal Patel, head of communications with Britain’s National Pharmacy Association.
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Looking for good jobs
TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Looking for good jobs
Nov 22, 2008.
Working hard, at full-time hours, is no longer a ticket out of poverty for a growing number of people. What would it take to change that?
Today in Toronto, that question is being asked at the “Good Jobs for All” summit. One possible answer is to rein in employment agencies that place workers in low-paying temporary jobs with few benefits.
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