Falcon

Various obsessions. Eternally curious. Opinions my own. Ignores arguments on X.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Just remember doctors like me who are fairly and well compensated are going to earn more. And profiteers win too. Average Albertans and Canadians lose. Canada - you’ve been warned. It’s in your hands. I’ve protested all I can.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Canadian weapons continue to be sent to actors who use them to commit atrocities.

Will the government finally be honest about it and act to end sales - direct or indirect - of weapons to perpetrators & prosecute companies who flout the law? https://t.co/Z9rXmnkjzz @AnitaAnandMP

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Over the years I've heard multiple people say that roundabouts are dangerous because drunk drivers crash into them.

You guys, catching drunk drivers is a BENEFIT of roundabouts.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Most Ontario hospitals are in deficit. Most Ontario hospitals borrow loans or lines of credit from banks. And yet we have cash for an airport whose terminal is owned by the biggest American bank with $4.4 trillion in assets. This is backwards. @JessicaBellTO

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

Prime minster Carney has passed a law allowing the use of banned pesticides. CBC reports that ministers can "greenlight any pesticide that ministers feel is in the interest of economic or national food security."

https://t.co/bdWxNwlIWz

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@StephenWickens1 Giving the NDP lots of space to win Toronto.

[Falcon @Conn1F]

Sadly true.

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

It's almost impossible to go for a jog, or take young children to many parks in Toronto because of the number unleashed dogs everywhere (not in designated leash free zones). They are all 'friendly' the owners insist. The entitlement is incredible.

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@KashPrime @YetItMoves @Bluehairisnice @Optikz78 Exactly. Responsible owners use those vests and then it's clear as day to everyone that it's a service animal.

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@KashPrime Yes, that "friendly" comment when the off-leash dog is bigger than your toddler ... Sadly some people really see their dogs as equal to humans. They're important, but not the same.

[Stephen Wickens 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @StephenWickens1]

Per-km cost of subway building in Ontario doubled the moment Ford gave the file to Metrolinx and IO, and it has doubled again since. Costs were out of control before the pandemic and inflation became a handy excuse. We're now among the most costly places in the world to build.

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@PhilipProudfoot lol. Italy is better than any old US theme park, and not only do they love life, they have great food, unlike most of the US.

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@JamesTate121 I don't remember it being "comfortable" with 5 kids in the 60s. The earner in our family had university and teaching degrees, and good jobs in the school system. It may have been different in the US. Today, with the climate crisis, fewer kids per family is better for everyone.

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@keetmuise It's in my Toronto neighbourhood. A nearby newborn got Covid via her older sister's daycare. The baby continues to be in and out of hospital; one thing after another, often lung related. We should have done all we could eliminate this - for the kids!

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@AdamasNemesis @SustainableTall Nothing "right". Massive oil production and imported temporary workers without rights (near-slavery). Recycled water.

[Falcon @Conn1F]

@raghu_venugopal Excellent points!

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

This piece is hyperbolic, devoid of connection to healthcare in Canada. 16 million attend the ER/year where we don't do MAID. That alone contradicts the "life is cheap" suggestion, as almost all of healthcare is to preserve life and limb. 👇👇👇

We dedicate great expense and effort so that life is not "cheap".

Let's for sure critique MAID, but let's keep it linked to reality.

The statement MAID is evolving into "an on-demand service for nearly anyone experiencing illness" is journalistic recklessness and bizarre for those Canadians that actually attend to real patients in real hospitals and real clinics.

The cheapening of this discourse happens when it's suggested the 3 million people with hearing loss in Canada are opting or thinking about MAID when one man with hearing loss (and mental illness) received MAID. I do find it highly questionable a mentally ill man with hearing problems received MAID, and the House of Commons testimony in this case lacks hundreds of relevent data points to conclude what really happened and why.

To say "this country has become a place where death has become the solution to suffering" is shameful and untruthful. I haven't seen this suggestion in clinical reality. What I have seen is thousands of real patients with serious and disabling illness fight, and fight, and fight on to live - supported by a legion of nurses, doctors and other health professionals. It's not true Canada just kills people who have an illness or suffering.

Critique MAID, but keep it honest and linked to reality. @RobynUrback
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[Idiotocracy @theidiotocracy]

The RCMP announced a Greenbelt investigation in 2023.

It’s now 2026.

No charges. No public update. No explanation.

Ontarians don’t need a particular outcome.

We do deserve transparency.

What’s the status of the investigation?

#GreenbeltScandal #DougFord #ONpoli #RCMP

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

$200 million on a parking garage on Toronto’s waterfront will not age well. Just like funnelling cars into the core has not aged well.

By the early 2030s, Exhibition Place will have one of the best transit connections in the country, with subway service to downtown, the east end, links into the entire GO rail network, and the waterfront streetcar network.

It’s designed to be a major hub.

Scotiabank Arena is a regional destination on GO Transit, and revellers arrive by walking, cycling and taking transit. They get to the Rogers Centre the same way. The only reason this works is because our streets on game days are a sea of people, rather than a sea of cars.

That’s not an accident. It’s the result of good urban planning.

So why are we spending a small fortune to create a traffic mess at Exhibition Place, when the overwhelming majority of people will still arrive by transit?

When we invest in transit, people take transit. When we invest in parking, we get more traffic.

[Patricia Chartier, she/her 🇨🇦 @patriciaorpat]

Should be a no-brainer. Why SHOULD we have to take a bus to Ottawa to get the attention of our Toronto Liberal MPs? But we do and we did.

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

This is 💯 correct. Floating claims of ‘economic growth’ or ‘better connections’ without evidence, and in the absence of details that allow consideration of cost and benefit, is worse than empty consultation - it is deceptive practice, leading respondents to a desired outcome.