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In 2007, CBC reported on emergency rooms "bursting at the seams." That same year, the Canadian Institute for Health Information released a report describing patient flow issues as a factor in admitted patients sometimes waiting up to 24 hours for acute care beds. In each of these instances, health-care professionals described hospitals at a breaking point.

Welcome to Canada, where we've been writing the same article about hospitals for so long that the article now contains a circular reflection on how long we've been writing the same article.

Sweet. I love mine!

Are you riding a Benno?

Adding bikes, plural. That’s the ticket.

Adding Up What Urban Highways Really Cost A new report maps the economic toll that downtown freeways exact on 142 US cities — and tallies up what that land could be worth if it was developed for other uses.

“Looking at a 3-mile radius from the downtowns of 142 US cities, roughly 66,000 acres are consumed by highways — land representing an untapped development potential of more than half a trillion dollars…that fallow land equates to about $5.2 billion in foregone property tax revenue every year.”

Not just in the UK

We have tried absolutely nothing and it hasn't worked so now the only obvious solution here is to blame others from other places.

kid on bike in a darth vader costume standing in a bike lane with a white truck beside Darth Vader Looking To Become Even More Hated In The Galaxy, Takes Up Cycling.

Darth Vader Looking To Become Even More Hated In The Galaxy, Takes Up Cycling.

Reminder: every road clearing plough in the city’s fleet is operating at max, so if you see a plough or sweeper clearing snow in a bike lane or on a sidewalk, then know it takes nothing away from the effort on our roadways.

People on bikes, people walking have places to go still. Be kind.✨

Canadians are ‘hitting a breaking point’ when it comes to the cost of insuring their vehicles Some are forgoing buying a second car, driving their cars longer, or choosing to drive less expensive ones to insure

Gift Link.
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Instead of buying a second or third car -> buy a top quality electric bike or electric cargo bike.
You'll save so much money and have fun doing it.
You might even start to see how stupidly designed our cities are.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b86a88d...

Love this!!

Fuck

Dude, why are you always forcing me now to consider all these really horrific things that are totally unfathomable to me?

- my brain these days

AB’s hospital bed per capita rate plummeted since 2009 It has fallen so much, that we would need over 1,800 more acute care beds to get caught up to where we were 16 years ago. No wonder our health system is a mess.

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social

Alberta’s hospital bed per capita rate plummeted since 2009

It’s fallen so much, that we’d need over 1,800 more acute care beds to get caught up to where we were 16 years ago. No wonder our health system is a mess.

albertaworker.ca/news/abs-hos...

Dog drinking coffee in a house with the world burning and the text “I can’t wait to go on my little bike ride” Probably Ai now that I’m looking at it.

🎶 ain’t nothing gonna break my stride, nobody gonna slow me down. Oh no, I got to keep on movin’ 🎶

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

Amazing!!

Bad things still happen in 3s? Seems like it’s just always all the time

Local woman wakes up, sends a happy little cloud of air pollutants to hover over the houses of politicians and shareholders who profit from fucking with EPA regulations, makes oatmeal.

Yah one of the reasons I no longer watch hockey is all the betting ads.

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🇨🇦 🩺 ALBERTA DOCTORS DEMAND STATE OF EMERGENCY 🩺 🇨🇦

Two weeks after a tragic ER death, the crisis is deepening.

Patients wait 12 hours in agony. Rooms meant for two now hold four.

Physicians say the system has collapsed.

Timm Bruch reports...
#AbLeg #CdnHealth #AbHealth #PublicHealth #AHS

Edmonton father dies in hospital E.R. waiting to see a doctor | Globalnews.ca On Monday, Dec. 22, Prashant Sreekumar, 44, had severe chest pains while at work. A client drove him to the Grey Nuns Hospital where he died waiting to see a doctor.

This is a tragic event, and my heart goes out to the pt's family.

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The Virtuous Cycle | The Tyee What started as a cost-saving measure to ride my bike more often became a highlight of daily life. Third in a series from a new book by Steve Burgess.

“By being sweet to the pedestrian and the cyclist you hit five birds with one stone — you get a lively city, you get an attractive city, you get a safe city, you get a sustainable city, and you get a city that’s good for your health” #bikes #transportNotSport thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

this is quite well done and made me think of @fionamattatall.bsky.social

Despite Record Oil Production of 1.4+Billion Barrels
Alberta is Running a $5+Billion Deficit while they
have the highest % of Hungry People in Canada
because UCP Conservatives would rather
GIVE all the Oil Money to Foreign Owned Oil Corps
than keep it in AB to help Alberta's Population

World's biggest carbon capture project could 'essentially drain Alberta', experts warn Government-commissioned modelling of water use by the planned $16.5 billion Pathways CCS project, a linchpin of the energy deal signed by Ottawa and Alberta last month, concluded its use of the region...

This is a bit of a wrinkle. Viva!

World's biggest carbon capture project could 'essentially drain Alberta', experts warn www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/18/a...

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

The day after a massive chinook day is exactly the use case for why we should take snow clearing more seriously in this town… pretty much all residential roads are an ice rink. Gonna be a lot of fender benders. Roll slowly #yycbike