Category: Blog
Top ten oil products that anti-oil activists use
Many anti-oil activists want governments to simply keep our country’s oil in the ground. So why do those same activists continue to use products that are made with oil…
Ontario worker describes his struggle due to Alberta’s pipeline delays
Andre Williams, a manager at a manufacturing company in Scarborough, discusses how stalled pipeline projects affect his family and his coworkers.
Patient shares great health care story
Alberta patient Danny Hozack describes the excellent service he received when he suffered from a retina tear on Christmas eve.
Health care in British Columbia: The big picture
When government programs struggle to provide services, some politicians and special interest groups inevitably suggest the solution is simply for the government to spend even more money. But is that really the answer to our health care system’s woes?
Health care beyond our border
This past December, Kris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and I drove from Burnaby, B.C. just over the border to a hospital complex in Bellingham (Washington State). We were hoping to talk to Canadians about why they were leaving the country for health care…
“Extra-billing” – the two definitions
Patients should note that the B.C. government and the Canada Health Act have two very different definitions of “extra-billing.”
Rationed health care in Canada
Big thank you to CKNW’s Lynda Steele for having SecondStreet.org on her show this week to talk about our new health care video…
Patient’s life saved by U.S. cancer surgery
Here’s an interesting story from the New Brunswick wing of the CBC.
Private health care in “communist” China
Over the past few months we’ve been doing lots of health care research and have come across a few interesting stories about health care in “communist” China.
