Avi Lewis demands Carney ban stores from using personal info to set prices Businesses maximize profits by using AI and algorithms to set prices based on things like a customer’s search history and demographic information www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Friday, April 17, celebrate the anniversary of the Canada Health Act with cake! Share a photo of a cake online with a reminder that Canadian medicare is a true nation-building project and that this great Canadian achievement is in danger because of Alberta’s Bill 11. Learn more: bit.ly/41BA9DN

'Further burden the public system': AMA raises concerns with Alberta's plan to allow patients to privately pay for diagnostic testing edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

What McKay and the IJF detail here is very concerning. There is a certain professional courtesy between government communications staff and journalists—abusing it to demand a false correction is a serious ethical breach.

Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.

Last week, @policyalternatives.ca put together an urgent call for Canada to tax the profits that the oil and gas industry is making off the war in Iran. Yesterday, the best Carney could do was removing tax on average people, further defunding the state. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Percentage of Ontario high school students missing 10% or more of their classes: 2017-18: 40% 2021-22: 47% 2022-23: 64% 2023-24: 59.5% 2024-25: 59.8% ON's proposed policy solution? Award grades for attendance. Forget addressing root causes of increased absences. globalnews.ca/news/1180158...

Private healthcare in the UK: helping or harming the NHS? ft.trib.al/URo3vZD

Alberta govt takes aim at Globe reporter over coverage of procurement controversy: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social

The state’s legislation could provide a blueprint for others considering moratoriums, amid growing pushback across the country to the rapid rollout of infrastructure underpinning the build-out of AI. ft.trib.al/bb7koE6

Maritime provinces to create public travel nurse agency, P.E.I. health minister says https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-new-maritime-travel-nurse-unit-in-development-9.7158726 ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

the senator and former mayor advising the provincial government about the downtown eastside is staggeringly uninformed, relying on surface knowledge twenty years out of date. its shocking. thank you for informing us, @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

If oil prices remain at current levels for the next 12 months, the Canadian oil industry is on track to make $90bn in profits, which is $60bn more than it would have earned without the war...Applying 15% rate on excess profits of oil industry could generate $9 billion over the next 12 months. ⬇️

Canada hurting vulnerable refugee claimaints with new health-care fees, N.L. providers say http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/canada-co-pay-system-refugee-care-nl-9.7163471 ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

The fuel companies will just raise prices - over time so they think it isn't obvious - to absorb that savings... just like the carbon tax

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

Bill 29 allows for-profit clinics to sell "preventative" scans to anyone with a credit card. It’s a bypass valve for the wealthy that creates a "me-first" queue, ignoring medical necessity and trashing any hope of a "strategic investment" in health. 5/10

"Andrew Longhurst, a senior researcher @policyalternatives.ca, said the legislation is opening the door to two-tiered health care, pointing to legislation passed in the fall that would allow physicians to practise in both the public and private sector." edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n... #abpoli

So the AB government has now formalized for-pay diagnostic testing without the need for a doctor. This won’t help people who can’t afford to pay - or those can can afford to pay. Unregulated access will simply see companies prey on people’s health fears. reddeeradvocate.com/2026/04/13/p...

David Eby's Abandonment of Human Rights Betrays His Own Government via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.

At Liberal party convention, delegates passed the "Enforcing the Canada Health Act" resolution There remains strong support for this important legislation The federal government needs to enforce the CHA in Alberta, put the brakes on 2-tier care www.hilltimes.com/2026/04/11/l...

Recent Abacus polling shows health care is the number 3 top issue facing the country Cost of living is number 1 If Alberta gets its way with two-tier health care, there is a huge threat that health care becomes a cost of living issue for every one #cdnpoli #abpoli

I deeply appreciate @michellegamage.bsky.social's work on the toxic drug poisoning crisis It's not an "addiction crisis" The use of substances has always been with us—and always will be Let's prevent the social murder by regulating the supply thetyee.ca/News/2026/04... #bcpoli

A decade under a public health emergency and nearly tens of thousands dead is horrific. Catastrophic. Grotesque. Governments are meant to keep people safe. The BCNDP knows thousands are dying every year from unregulated drugs. They choose to not regulate the drugs. Today I am exhausted with grief.

FOM & @pfparks.bsky.social have been touring Alberta with our Urgent Conversation townhalls. We've talked to THOUSANDS of Albertans in 19 communities about our public health care—and we want to talk to YOU too! Join us for our ONLINE townhall this April 19! www.friendsofmedicare.org/virtualtownh...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Private-pay testing will increase public wait times, making the diagnostic testing bottleneck worse, & continue to unravel the foundational principles of the Canada Health Act.' @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

The Alberta government is legislating queue jumping for diagnostics

SCOOP! Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopolous takes legal action against two podcasters after an alleged campaign of harassment, and intimidation over the course of a year. This is tied directly to the “Corrupt Care” scandal. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

Albertans deserve health care based on need, NOT ability to pay. But the government's new scheme will let people pay out of pocket for diagnostic services. Put simply: it's legislated queue jumping that puts private profits over patients' care needs. www.friendsofmedicare.org/privatepay_d...

My latest: Alberta govt legislates two-tier health care, again Private-pay testing will increase public wait times, making the diagnostic testing bottleneck worse, and continue to unravel the foundational principles of the Canada Health Act www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #abpoli

This is great news for rich people who don't need medical testing but want to be in front of those who do.

Alberta is the first province to introduce self-referral for diagnostic testing This coincides with two-tier legislation that means preferential access based on wealth This change is a boon to the private insurance and for-profit medical imaging industries www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?... #abpoli

The province says that it will also require "attendance and participation" to be part of the final mark for students in grades 9-12 The Ontario government is unilaterally making schools less inclusive This will harm neurodivergent students & those with disabilities www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My colleagues @hadrianmk.bsky.social and @davidmaccdn.bsky.social have a excellent analysis out that meet's the current moment We need a windfall tax on the Canadian oil industry Politicians keep telling us that we can't have nice things. Here's a way to raise revenue for those nice things

Breaking from @policornerca.bsky.social: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation. www.policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-... #topoli #onpoli

Why are doctors coming to Canada? They’re fleeing private health insurance companies that interfere with what’s best for patients “Most approvals for diagnostic tests and medications, for example, are initially turned down by US private insurance companies” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d...

Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds

JD Vance is heading to the US and is ready to offer his assistance to any candidates back home.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

This is both good news for Ukraine and Palestinians. Hungary had blocked aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Israel by the EU block. This means more military aid for Ukraine to fight Putin and sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza.

Pope says ‘enough of war’ and decries ‘delusion of omnipotence’ at peace vigil www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"AI in health care can mean shorter wait times and better service." TELL ME HOW

Since Israel’s genocide of Gaza, “the silence of states and the continued flow of weapons has only emboldened Israel,” says Beirut-based Human Rights Watch researcher Ramzi Kaiss in an interview about Israel's intensified attacks on Lebanon.

Given the huge early turnout in Hungary odds seem very high that Magyar wil defeat Orbán very decisively; the question in that case would be whether Orbán goes with the Ukrainian electoral interference lie he has been preparing and whether foreign actors support him.