1 week Ago By Dave Breakenridge
Article content Alberta and Canada spend $45.2 billion on Albertan’s health care according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Alberta’s latest population estimate is 4,888,723.
That means health care in Alberta costs $9246 for every man, woman, and child in Alberta. So, for a family of four, it costs nearly $37000 for their annual health care on average. This is insane.
Many countries offer private health care under a universal system – no one is denied, but you may be treated publicly or privately (e.g. Portugal).
To those that suggest Canada has free health care, I suggest you learn a little more how the economy works. Tariff talk With all the tariffs being imposed by Trump on some 150 plus countries, he did not impose tariffs on his good buddy Putin or his ally Belarus. The stock market carnage will continue as the futures for Monday are already showing another big sell-off.
Are his MAGA supporters getting tired of winning yet? Many joined Democrats in massive protests as they are getting fed up with the DOGE cuts and the market chaos, which will continue as Trump’s stupid tariff war rages on. Style over substance Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that in 2015, former PM Stephen Harper was seen as stuffy, boring, and not terribly exciting, but Justin Trudeau was seen as cool, hip, and a true rock star! It’s no wonder Canadians chose Justin over boring Stephen, as he is one of the beautiful people that Derek Zoolander always talked about so affectionately. Now, with our current PM, Trudeau 2.
0, also known as Mark “His Majesty” Carney, coming down from his Manhattan penthouse to save Canada, we are back to having one of those super-boring, stuffy financial geeks, just like Harper, who once joked that he became an economist because he didn’t have the charisma to be an accountant. So, are the Liberals trying to tell us that style is not more important than substance after all?.
