My mum and dad spent 42 hours in the A&E waiting room at Lincoln Hospital, last week. My dad had been taken there by ambulance, for a suspected stroke. I was there in the daytime both days. It was utterly horrendous. Well over a hundred patients. Five of us wearing masks...

Get ready. Here we go. More than half of all patients in Ontario ERs are admitted with nowhere to go. In pile in all the febrile children and everyone with respiratory illnesses. There'll be calls for "don't go to the ER unless you have to". It will pass. Nothing will change.

Great to see. As a physician, you can tell in an instant if the nurse is agency or full-time. It makes a big difference. Agency nursing should be eliminated. Nurses should be paid fair. They're as crucial as police and fire. Ontario Hospital Association

So, this is bullshit and the typical response from government to blame and shame the patient and hide from the responsibility of their failure to provide adequate bed capacity to meet the needs of an aging population. Total, 100% bullshit.

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Then make it easier for victims of intimate partner violence to have firearms removed from their homes.

They don't do decisive action too well. Classic Canadian "policy" - study the thing to death, keep kicking the can down the road, rinse and repeat. Meanwhile the deaths keep piling up.

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