2024 worst year for Ontario ER closures, CBC analysis finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/data-analysis-er-closures-three-years-2024-worst-year-for-scheduled-closures-1.7396789

* 1/5 hospitals with an ER or urgent care centre had unplanned shutdowns

Comment: it's this crap that gets incumbent governments voted out of office

#Canada #Ontario #USpol #CanPol #politics #governance
#PoliticalInertia #FailureToGovern #FailureToLead #PoliticalCorruption
#apathy #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #PoliticalDissafection
#populism #democracy #DemocraticBacksliding

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... and this is the crap that disaffects voters, gets right-wing/far-right populists (with no solutions or costing, of course) elected:

B.C. emergency room closed for 3rd time in 9 days
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113456880931668244

Halifax woman waited 3 years for MRI that showed she had brain tumor
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-3-years-mri-that-showed-she-had-brain-tumour-1.7398080

#USpol #CanPol #politics #governance
#PoliticalInertia #FailureToGovern #FailureToLead #PoliticalCorruption
#apathy #PoliticalApathy #SocialAlienation #PoliticalDissafection #populism