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Feb 17 2023

Health cash. Dying rules. Mixed messages.

Feb 17, 2022
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics. Still in beta ... 
The Public Order Emergency Commission tables its report in the House of Commons at noon today. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other ministers will respond to its conclusions at 1330 ET from the West Block.
Canada
Premiers ask Trudeau for formal review process for future health funding talks
Canada’s premiers say they are ready to negotiate with Ottawa on its health funding deal, but they are also calling for a formal review process for future health funding talks. 
As Canada’s premiers express disappointment over Ottawa’s health deal, questions are being raised about why they are demanding more federal cash while sitting on surplus budgets.
Canada's assisted dying laws should be expanded to include minors, a parliamentary committee has recommended in a new report tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday. 
'It’s the right thing to do. I mean, we’ve seen recent events. There have been reports,' Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said of the move that will include China.
From the provinces
B.C. MLA the latest politician with mixed messaging for non-English media
BC Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon says he supports supervised drug injection sites, but when one of his MLAs spoke to a Mandarin news show last week, she had a different message.
Media
CBC News today announced David Cochrane as the new host of CBC News Network’s flagship daily political program, POWER & POLITICS. 
Issued this day ...
... in 1997:  Scott # 1635: Masterpieces of Canadian Art — 10. Design: Pierre-Yves Pelletier. 
This the 10th in a series of 15 stamps that were issued between 1988 and 2002.  The series is one of the most handsome sets ever issued by Canada Post. each reproduction of a “masterpiece of Canadian art” is set against a bronze, gold, or silver frame. The metallic gleam of those frames in real life are very difficult to reproduce in a scan.

For this one, Scott 1635, the piece of art chosen is a woodcut by Walter Joseph Phillips (1884-1963) titled York Boat on Lake Winnipeg (1930), a piece that is part of the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. 

Phillips was born in England, studied in South Africa and Paris, but eventually settled in Winnipeg where he lived for 28 years. It was from Winnipeg that Phillips developed and popularized the colour woodcut, a style inspired by Japanese woodcuts and, specifically, the Japanese master Yoshijirio Urushibara, who taught Phillips the woodcut technique while the two were in England.

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