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Quebec has second best hospital wait time in Canada, says study
The province of Quebec has ranked second best for surgical wait times according to an annual report by the Fraser Institute.
Despite a slight fall in times, the average Canadian waits approximately four months before being able to receive necessary medical treatment.
In Quebec, the average wait time for patients is 16.6 weeks, second behind Ontario at 14.9. According to a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, even the least worst wait times are unacceptable.
However, critics dismissed the study, stating that it relied on statements from medical practitioners rather than measurable date. As well, of the over 1,800 practitioners polled in Quebec, only 10 per cent actually replied.
Flickr Photo by: Christina Welsh (Rin)
STORY WRITTEN BY: JAMIE-LEE GORDON
C.P. Rail to cut jobs
Canadian Pacific Railway announced on Tuesday it plans to cut 4,500 jobs by 2016 in the recent wave of changes it’s been going through.
According to CBC, CP expects to eliminate 1,700 jobs this year. Both employees and contractors will be affected. CEO Hunter Harrison claims the move will ‘‘greatly improve service, increase the railway’s efficiency, lower costs and grow the business.’’
Harrison also plans to increase the productivity of trains, sell some of the real estate assets, and move the corporate headquarters from downtown Calgary to the Ogden Yard southeast of the city by 2014.
Changes have been in the process ever since Harrison became the new CEO. His rise was the result of a bitter battle between the largest shareholder of the company, Pershing Square Capital, and the previous board of directors.
Hunter Harrison is credited for having turned Montreal-based Canadian National Railway into North America’s most efficient major railway.
Flickr Photo by: Peter Grossmann
STORY WRITTEN BY: GREGORY WILSON
Canadian flag will remain in the red room at the National Assembly
The debate over whether to keep the Maple Leaf in the provincial legislature has been resolved.
According to CBC News, the PQ set a motion forward on removing the Canadian flag from the Red Room. However Tuesday this motion was defeated by 12 votes.
Both the Liberals and the CAQ voted against the motion. With support of the CAQ, moving the motion forward was difficult for the PQ.
The PQ's minority status also contributed to the motions defeat.
STORY WRITTEN BY: HANNAH BESSEAU
Egyptians protest against referendum
Things are really not looking good in Egypt these days.
According to Al Jazeera, thousands of protesters demonstrated outside the presidential palace to protest against the proposed constitution.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who emerges from the Muslim Brotherhood, had announced that he plans to hold a referendum about a controversial draft charter.
The protesters were chanting for the downfall of the president, and police forces resorted to fire tear gas at some of the ones who broke through police lines.
Some influential daily newspapers and TV channels also planned protests in their manner against the charter Tuesday and Wednesday.
An Al-Jazeera reporter said that the opposition was not against Morsi’s legitimate election, but against his actions and decrees, which they judge as illegitimate.
The referendum is planned for December 15 and will be supervised by the Supreme Judicial Council despite calls for a boycott.
CJLO NEWS Presents: Podcast Premiere!
CJLO News Presents our first podcast!
This month's podcast features:
1. Pipeline conflicts with Unis'ot'en of the West'suwet'en Nation. We chat with Harjap Grewal of the Council of Canadians on this issue (6.30)
2. Exploring the "green" scene in Montreal. CJLO News chats with Tamara Filyavich from the Frigo Vert and Sustainability student Maggie Cascaden on food alternatives. (14.28)
3. McGill Political Science professor Rex Brynen explores the conflict in Syria and Abdullah Almalki shares his remarkable story on his experience of imprisonment in Syria. (31.28)
If you'd like to get involved with our podcast, or more from CJLO News check out CJLO.com/news
Friday, December 7th on the Go-Go-Radio Magic Show: Danny Marks
You may know him by any number of names—Skid Marks, Dorito Dan, Colonel Lingus, Spider, to name a few. And you may have seen him in any of the numerous bands he has been in over the years—CPC Gangbangs, The Del-Gators, Teenage Hookers. But you've never heard him DJing on The Go-Go Radio Magic Show... until now!
Whether it was playin' bass in Les Sexareenos, drummin' with The Cockroaches or food fightin' with The Spaceshits, Danny Marks has been a huge part of the rock and roll scene in Montreal for the past decade and a half.
Tune in Friday, December 7 as Danny takes over the airwaves at CJLO 1690 AM and spins some great tales as well as some great music.
We are not responsible for any frenzy the music he selects may whip the listeners into ... but we're excited to have it happen.
The NHL-Lockout: The View of an Indifferent Die-Hard
Anyone who knows me well knows I am a die-hard hockey fan. I breathe, eat, and sleep hockey, no matter the time of year: preseason, regular season, postseason, offseason. It doesn’t matter. Hockey websites are bookmarked and frequently visited; hockey articles are devoured, and it’s with keener eyes and closer attention that I watch or listen to any form of broadcast media reporting or debating anything hockey related.
EA Sports provides the magic of getting as close to an NHL roster as possible for most of us: creating oneself in the game and controlling the player as you pave your way through an illustrious NHL career.
Of course, particular attention is paid to the Montreal Canadiens. A lifelong fan of the sport’s most prestigious franchise, I yearn for the day where I’ll be able to celebrate a 25th Stanley Cup with an entire city—and it’s not like I expected it to happen this year anyways, but at this rate, it looks like no one will be hoisting Lord Stanley’s mug in the summer of 2013.
Eighty days. We’ve be robbed of our Canadian pastime for eighty days. Yes, we can watch the American Hockey League, and junior hockey, and even local teams in the CIS and at the amateur levels (which I would encourage hockey fans to do, lockout or no lockout, and something I should be doing more often myself); but nothing compares to the big leagues.
Nothing compares to offensive genius of Sidney Crosby and Claude Giroux, nor the dynamic explosiveness of Alexander Ovechkin and Steven Stamkos.
Nothing compares to the massive slapshots of Zdeno Chara and Shea Weber, nor the creative brilliance of Erik Karlsson and Kris Letang.
Nothing compares to the eloquence of Henrik Lundqvist or Pekka Rinne, the legendary skill of Martin Brodeur, or the unparalled athleticism of Carey Price and Jonathan Quick.
Despite all this…I really don’t care.
You read that right: I don’t care. I’ve been through one lockout, and it was one of the most depressing years of my life. No 13-year old boy should be stripped of an entire year of not being able to do one of the things that brings him the greatest joy: watching his heroes play hockey. Color me selfish if you wish, but I know I wasn’t the only one—nor is the feeling limited to younger generations. Hockey fans bleed their sport. It is more than “just a sport”, to many of us. It serves as an escape, something to latch onto, something to believe in; something that brings hope, jubilation, and happiness, as easily it can bring pain, sadness, and despair.
Sure, the sport has deviated from its old time roots, but at its core, the cycle remains the same.
A child straps on his first pair of skates. He falls in love. He dedicates his life to achieving his dream.
Draft day. Training camp. Get cut. Ride the buses in junior. Sign a contract. Ride the buses in the AHL. Get called up. Work your ass off, impress your coach. Stick with the big club. Breathe a sigh of relief.
Impose yourself. Earn your teammates’ respect. Block shots. Take hits. Sacrifice well-being to put a round piece of vulcanized rubber past the armoured guardian of a 4x6 foot opening.
Score. Fight. Empty the figurative gas tank. Repeat 82 times.
You won a lot of games? Congratulations. Your reward? What reward? Go get sixteen more wins, and then we’ll talk.
Scratch and claw to sixteen more wins. Raise the greatest trophy in pro sports. Stop. Soak in the moment. Inhale the roar of a rambunctious home crowd. Bask in the glory of the silence in another team’s building.
Hockey.
…did anyone see any mention of “boardroom” in there? Any mention of meetings? Collective bargaining? Unions? Laywers? Owners?
Lockout?
I am a hockey fan. I didn’t buy a Canadians jersey to cheer Erik Cole and Josh Gorges on in a battle against Jeremy Jacobs and Murray Edwards. I didn’t buy it to watch a spectacle unfold in a New York office building. Our game is played on ice.
And that’s why I don’t care. I refuse to let the ongoing mockery of my favourite sport suck the life out of me. I refuse to fall in line with the wishes of attention-seeking millionaires and billionaires, pointing at themselves and saying “hey, look at us, we’re trying, they aren’t!” Good for you, call me when a deal is struck.
For now, I’ll watch my football. I’ll watch basketball. I’ll watch other levels of hockey. But I could not care less about what the NHL is doing. I will not say that I will boycott the sport; that’s a ridiculous notion, and anyone who says that is flat out lying. If Gary Bettman has been right about anything, it’s that NHL fans will come back, without a shred of doubt (in this country, at least).
So call me when it’s over with. Call me when teams report to training camp. Next week, next month, next year: doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter when.
I’ll be there. We’ll all be there.
But please, spare me the lockout nonsense. I really don’t care.
Andrew Maggio Hosts The Game Misconduct on Sundays from 12:00pm to 1
December 4th, 2012
Hosted by: Kurt Weiss
Stories by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi & Saturn De Los Angeles
Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Private daycares want subsidies
A group of Quebec private daycare centres are not feeling the love over the P.Q.'s decision to create new public daycare spaces.
According to CBC News, a coalition of Quebec private daycare centres said the new public spaces are a waste of taxpayers' money.
The coalition has revealed that there is immediate space in their daycares, however, customers think twice of the 33 to 35 dollar a day price they would pay. The 7-dollar-a-day daycare centres have a waiting list for prospective clients.
Private daycares want the provincial government to provide subsities to their members so they too can offer 7-dollar-a-day spaces.
Premier Pauline Marois said that subsidizing private daycares wouldn't create a single spot. A statement that has already been denied by the coalition.
Schools reach out for mental health
Canadian universities are reaching out to students to deal with end-of-semester stress.
In a report by the Globe and Mail, Canadian Mental Health Commission chairman David Goldbloom says there's been progress with how schools accommodate the mental health needs of their students.
He adds that the need for students - especially for freshmen - to stay competitive, is pressuring them, when they should be instead coping to university life.
McGill University's health clinic director Robert Franck cites an upsurge in clinic visits in 2012. He says it's the most stressful time of the year as they get 20 emergency drop-in visits daily.
Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario released a report with over a hundred recommendations to re-examine how they deal with mental health issues. This report was in wake of six student deaths in 2010 and 2011.
The University of Alberta is trailblazing initiatives to de-stigmatize mental health issues, such as a peer-outreach group and free yoga classes.
York University in Toronto organized a two-week mental health campaign by training student leaders to reach out to their peers within their field of expertise.
The University of Alberta’s Dr. Robin Everall says we need to get mental health issues out of the closet and there’s no way it should be taboo.
STORY WRITTEN BY: SATURN DE LOS ANGELES
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