Friends of Medicare

friendsofmedicare.bsky.social

20 October 2026 19:25

Today is Tommy Douglas Day! Celebrating the contributions of Thomas Clement Douglas: the "Greatest Canadian" & the man who brought universal Medicare to Canada. It's also our executive director's 43rd birthday!🎂 Will you make Chris' bday wish come true? friendsofmedicare.org/tommy_douglas_day_2026

🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇨🇦Lynne McDonald 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

lynnemcd.bsky.social

20 October 2026 18:37

Hey Saskatchewan! He once was asked what his proudest accomplishment was. “Rural electrification” was his response. He knew what a difference it made to all those small family farms to be able to flip the switch to light up their homes on a dark prairie night.

Parksy

pfparks.bsky.social

20 October 2026 14:08

thetyee.ca/Culture/2... Please read! 17hr wait is NOT an abnormality... "We can’t lose sight of our humanity. A health-care system shouldn’t be judged only by whether care eventually arrives, but by what children and families are asked to endure to reach it." 1/2

Parksy

pfparks.bsky.social

18 October 2026 21:14

edmontonjournal.com/... Minister's office: "Four separate reviews... to understand what happened and identify where improvements are needed" = bureaucratic BS! Frontline Emerg docs have been telling them for years: move sick admitted pts out of the ED within 8HRs max.

Parksy

pfparks.bsky.social

18 October 2026 21:14

edmontonjournal.com/... Take a moment to read. The math is simple. We have double the population with less hospital beds then in the 1980s. It isn't immigrants. It's govt's ignoring our hospital and workforce planning and building. It's lack of HCWs and BEDs! 1/2