@ariadne pretty recent yeah. Also keep in mind health care is a provincial responsibility, so this will vary some by province. Telus is based in Western Canada (originally Alberta, now BC) so if you're seeing this in BC for example that might be part of why. Dunno if Ontario is contracting with Telus or not but I'd say they showed up in force maybe 6 years ago in Alberta.

@ariadne oh no, specifically Telus has managed to contract with governments to do some health care delivery in areas where people don't have much choice.

Mostly Telehealth as far as I've seen, where they're basically undercutting local family doctors and nurses so the government run insurance is pushing people to them.

@ariadne health care in canada is operated by businesses (which can be professionals in partnerships or corporations or non-profits) in general, the only part of the system that is fully government run is the health insurance part which is single-payer and universal.

So it's subject to conglomeration just like any other business on the delivery side.

@LillyHerself @Chigaze @dyckron ‍️ feels like ignatieff take 2 to me.

I just have a real hard time looking at the polls and coming to the conclusion that everyone is secretly jonesing for an establishment technocrat.

@dyckron Jesus. PP vs Clark sure would be a match from hell.

@AmeliasBrain @Chigaze @chris @lauxmyth @Kellyshenanigans @stephanie alternatively, maybe we could trade our half of that island we were fighting with Denmark over for a little piece of land in Denmark and then part of Canada can be in Europe.

@Chigaze @chris personally I think there are a lot of things about EU law I'd really like to apply to Canada, and being in Schengen would be cool (but technically that's not exactly the same as EU membership).

@linux_mclinuxface is kijiji that bad now? I admit I've found more interesting stuff on FB marketplace lately (it's now the no.1 reason I'm still on there), but I still go to kijiji for some things.