Cops protect the hospital and its reputation. Nurses unions protect patients, nurses, and other healthcare workers

This summer, members of the Manitoba Nurses Union took the rare step of voting to “grey-list” HSC, a powerful public warning issued only five times over the past forty-five years. Grey listing alerts nurses that HSC is deemed unsafe, signalling they should reconsider or use caution when applying to or accepting work there. It doesn’t force current employees to quit, but it sends a clear message to the public and government about the facility’s working conditions. In November, the union grey-listed a second Manitoba facility, Thompson General Hospital, due to unsafe working conditions.

The vote to grey-list HSC this August came hours after staff learned of a sixth sexual assault on campus in just a couple of weeks, according to the Winnipeg Free Press. Security found the woman and took her inside for treatment. Police arrested a thirty-nine-year-old man soon after. On the same day, a patient being transferred from HSC’s Crisis Response Centre to the ER claimed to be carrying a bomb, sparking a police response. Both incidents underscored the union’s warning that the hospital had become dangerous. Shared Health convened a meeting with union leaders and government officials. In a statement, the organization pointed to steps already implemented over the years, such as hiring more safety officers, adding AI weapon scanners, and installing 100 new cameras. The Manitoba Nurses Union also demanded new measures: swipe-card access for tunnels, secure entrances always staffed, and a notice as soon as it’s known a dangerous offender is active in or near the facility.

Yup. Punching down on people with disabilities for petty savings

Fuck ICE

The Doug Ford government just passed Bill 60, the Fighting delays, Building Faster Act, 2025, a gigantic omnibus bill, a bill that gives corporate landlords more power to evict tenants.

Rammed through with no public consultation and no legislative transparency. There are some very troubling parts of this bill, the taking over Exhibition Place for one and that is just one of the hidden issues in Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Omnibus bill, that will benefit private corporations.

People will be very alarmed to hear that hidden in omnibus Bill 60 is a new law called the Water and Waste Water Public Corporations Act. This legislation will enable the privatization of water. In a time of the affordability crisis, this Bill will allow private corporations the control to raise water rates to maximize profits. Will public safety be a concern when profits are involved?

This Conservative government has not learned the lessons from Walkerton, where in 1996, after water testing was privatized, at least seven people died. More than 2,300 became very sick, many were hospitalized and many had to go on dialysis, for the rest of their lives. Worse, Ford has already passed Bill 56 which removed local autonomy from local water systems and gave the minister in charge the power to make changes without any public input or oversight.

Oil prices will also most likely peak within a decade, rendering yet more crazy-expensive and long-term investments into fossil fuel infrastructure questionable. Tar sands oil is some of the most expensive oil to manufacture, so it will fare badly when oil prices start to come down

Nah, dawg. It’s gone. Redemption is possible. But he’s outed himself as clearly a fossil fuel industry backer

Israeli violence = “settler attacks;” Palestinian violence = “terrorism.” Do better CBC and stop sanitizing genocide

Right, but RFK Jr is an anti-science quack, and parroting his dubious line without any scientific context (eg, lives saved from COVID vaccines) is journalistic malpractice

What a stupid take, fitting for the Broken Times. They published an article today headlined: FDA says 10 children died of COVID vaccines

Mark Carney, shill for fossil fuel oligarchs and Prime Minister of Canada (in that order)

The changes, proposed in Carney’s Nov. 4 budget, are meant to address what his government says is a “trend” of companies staying silent about their environmental efforts out of fears of running afoul of the law, according to a statement sent to The Narwhal from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.

[…] But now, the government believes companies are “withholding information that could aid in attracting investment for green innovation,” a departmental spokesperson said. Carney’s budget claimed the anti-greenwashing law, brought in under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, was leading to “some parties slowing or reversing efforts to protect the environment.”

When asked by The Narwhal, the federal department couldn’t name any specific examples of companies slow-walking genuine environmental efforts as a result of last year’s legal changes — which deal specifically with marketing unsubstantiated green claims, and not environmental action itself.

Criminal charges, LFG!!! This PoS obviously ought to serve time behind bars

I really appreciate your reply. You hit the nail on the head that I am being reductive and ableist. Per the latter point, I realize that calling them morons or unintelligent is problematic, so I shift to dumbasses, which is semantics and not a real solution.

I also agree that right-wing groups/people seem to get off on not having to make sense or explain themselves.

I find them so perplexing and problematic.

I guess it is less about ability and more about belief and identity. Like toxic masculinity, I might call it toxic citizenry or toxic humanity.

But they are being fooled though, for example to hate immigrants rather than billionaires.

LBJ [US president] understood how Southern politicians tricked poor Whites. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pockets. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”(p264) The poor White man was simply “a pawn in their [Southern politicians’] game,” as Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan sang in 1963.

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There’s so much truth to unpack LBJ’s words there. I think the psychology of it fascinates me most of all. People adopt a simplification of reality that gives them a false sense of power, and living in that reality requires not questioning it. Something like: people will sell their brain to stroke their ego.

Please consider adding a reasonable disclaimer about the publication, if you’re going to post NatPo articles, so that the content of the article can come into focus

As an anti-hate white person, seeing these dumbasses shamelessly broadcast their despicable and idiotic views in public - and without facing punishment for doing so - boils my blood.

Back in September, a similar group of dumbasses tried to make a demonstration in Toronto. A twice to thrice as large group of police protected them like their flock (no surprise there). A 10x as large group of anti-hate protestors showed the dumbasses how welcome they were and chased them from their gathering spot.

If there’s one thing I took away from that experience, and several conversations, it’s that these hateful dumbasses truly are stupid. If you asked them, “Could ‘remigration now’ be interpreted as a white-supremacist slogan?”, you’d find a complete absence of knowledge and critical thinking about a topic they’re supposedly passionate about. You’d see a bunch of ineffectual losers drawn to hateful idiocy because it makes them feel big, in contrast to the rest of their life where they probably feel small and powerless.

They are incapable of understanding that they’re not targeting the groups doing them harm, or that they’re being used. The self-aggrandizing propaganda turns their brains off. I feel sorry for them. But I’m also wary that the longer they absorb this hateful idiocy, the slimmer any chance or them recognizing how hateful and idiotic they are becomes.

While most cannot comprehend the white-supremacy nature of their group’s rhetoric, they understand - on some level - that being viewed as a Nazi is undesirable. If I were to hold a sign next to those assholes on their bridge that said “honk for Nazis” (identifying them as Nazis) they’d get uncomfortable and probably attack me and their sign. In my experience, there was no greater way to make the dumbasses in Toronto sheepish than to yell “Nazi scum” and vigourously point at them for any passersby to see

What is American private equity’s (ie, NatPo’s ownership group) interest in this headline? Fear-mongering to promote anti-privacy state surveillance laws ‘for the children’, like are already in effect in parts of the US and in the UK, and are now under review at the EU

Good to know, thanks. I left reddit 2 years ago. That’s a good tell of how toxic it currently is

This is such a bad look for TMU (edit: honouring IOF soldiers at planned events on campus)

It’s funny af, but I don’t understand the punchline of the text. Can someone plz explain?

Reminder: this is a paper owned by US private equity pretending to be Canadian