Unmaking Saskatchewan
Apr 11, 2022
The Hunger Strategy
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In Saskatchewan, governments and corporations have long used hunger as a strategy to save money, make money, and acquire land and resources. People are hungry in Saskatchewan today, because people have always been hungry in Saskatchewan.
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Mar 13, 2023
Medicare Before Tommy Douglas
For better or for worse, Tommy Douglas is the figure most closely associated with Medicare in Canada. But long before the CCF was first elected in 1944, Saskatchewan people were organizing and strategizing to ensure their communities had access to doctors, nurses, hospitals, and infectious disease treatment. This episode looks at the evolution of public healthcare in the province between 1872 and 1944.
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Sources:
Boychuk, Gerard _Explaining Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada_
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Countess of Aberdeen _What is the use of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada?_
Daschuk, James _Clearing the Plains_
Houston, C. Stuart _Steps on the road to medicare: why Saskatchewan led the way_
Houston, C. Stuart _Leading the way: __A Matter of Life and Breath. The 75 Year History of the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League and the Saskatchewan Lung Association_
Middleton, F.C. _Evolution of Tuberculosis Control in Saskatchewan_
Ostry, Alec _National History of Medicine: The Foundations of National Public Health Insurance_
Rands, Stan _Privilege and Policy: A History of Community Clinics in Saskatchewan_
Shandel, Tom _Bitter Medicine, Part One: The Birth of Medicare_
Taylor, Malcom G. _Health insurance and Canadian public policy: the seven decisions that created the Canadian health insurance system and their outcomes_
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Feb 14, 2023
The Healthcare Crisis is Intentional
Medicare is a project that was never finished. The failure to make it comprehensive left chinks that the right has exploited to push for ever more privatization. The crisis in the system right now is one that is by design, and until Canadians are willing to reckon with the fact that political leaders in the country don't believe in public healthcare as a value, we won't be able to fight back.
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*https://www.barrietoday.com/local-news/homeless-hopeless-man-to-seek-medically-assisted-death-6420855*
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*https://theconversation.com/as-eligibility-for-maid-expands-the-ethical-implications-of-broad-access-to-medically-assisted-death-need-a-long-hard-look-198380*
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*https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-woman-in-final-stages-of-maid-application-after-nearly-a-decade-long-search-for-housing-1.6145487*
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Oct 28, 2022
Neil Stonechild and the Starlight Tours (Part 1)
On November 29, 1990, the body of Neil Christopher Stonechild, a 17-year-old Saulteaux high school student, was found frozen in a field on the outskirts of Saskatoon. Despite his family's suspicions of foul play, less than a week after he was found, the Saskatoon Police closed the investigation into his death. It would take another 10 years - and two more freezing deaths - before Neil's death was properly investigated and it was revealed to the world what many Indigenous people in Saskatoon had known for years: the Saskatoon Police had a habit of driving Indigenous people far beyond the city limits and dumping them on the roadside to walk home, or die.
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