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Feb 7 2023

Health billions. Trudeau’s polls. News Faith.

Feb 7, 2022
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics. Still in beta ... 
Canada
Trudeau to offer more than $100-billion in health care funding over 10 years
Source says the 10-year funding proposal from Ottawa will include tens of billions of dollars of new money as well as earlier planned increases to the Canada Health Transfer

As premiers gather for a health summit with the PM, a majority of Canadians say they want more funding for health care - but many also want plans attached to increased spending.
Latest finding from pollster Angus Reid Institute: Ontario plan to pay for private operations with public funds draws support from majority Februar

Three Simon Fraser University academics write: Canada is sidelining qualified doctors while many Canadians struggle to find health care. Here’s what we can and must do better for internationally trained physicians.

Eric Grénier: The historical precedent is thin, but not great, for Trudeau's Liberals.
Ottawa was expanding eligibility to Hong Kong residents who have graduated within the past 10 years from a post-secondary learning institution in Canada or abroad.
From the provinces
Starting in 2025, approximately 15 heavy trucks a day will roar through the ancestral hunting grounds of the Nemaska Cree, carrying the thousands of tonnes of ore that Nemaska Lithium plans to mine.
Federal environment minister is recommending that a protection order be made for unprotected portions of boreal caribou critical habitat.
Elsewhere
Ron DeSantis Battles the African American A.P. Course—and History
The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true.
Media
When Americans Lost Faith in the News
Louis Menand: Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don’t. What happened to the power of the press?
Issued this day ...
.. in 1992: Scott #1399: Winter Olympics: Ski Jumping.  Design: Peter Adam and Katalin Kovalts
Scott
Issued to mark the XVI Olympic Winter Games, held in 1992 in Albertville, France. This scan is an excerpt from my booklet pane of 10 (Scott #1403b).

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