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Medical school and residency spots are controlled by provincial governments, and even the provincial medical associations exist at the will of provincial governments.

I don't know enough to comment. I believe groups like the CMA would have their voice heard in such conversations.

Any government that says "we recognize a sizeable portion of Canadians don't have a primary care provider (like a family doctor), that is a major healthcare problem that costs the system a great deal of money and other problems (e.g., overcrowded ERs), and we're going to start graduating more physicians this year to meet Canadians' needs" - would receive widespread approval I think, and from any party. I think physicians' lobby groups however would do/say whatever necessary to kill that.

The CMA sold their wealth management company, MD Financial Management, to Scotiabank in 2018 for 2.6 billions dollars. The CMA has been touring with the Globe and Mail over the last year to promote healthcare privatization (example).

Requiring proof of a causal relationship may be setting the bar so high that it can't be cleared.

I think there's an abundance of moderately strong evidence that the CMA has its members interests at heart, not Canadians who rely on public healthcare.

Here's the Ontario MA's statement on fixing issues in primary healthcare. They note 2 million Ontarians don't have a family doctor. Where on the list of their proposed solutions is graduating more doctors?: https://www.oma.org/advocacy/prescription-for-ontario/prescription-for-ontario-doctors-solutions-for-immediate-action

Here's a well-documented example of their interest in privatization: https://www.healthcoalition.ca/the-canadian-medical-associations-cross-canada-town-halls-are-pro-privatization-say-doctors/

I think we probably both agree that resin codes are originally and principally manufacturing specs. I don't know how many (lay) people correctly use them to guide how they should dispose of things. My biggest point though is that however resin codes were started, they have been taken over by a corporate desire to make things that aren't recyclable look recyclable. They give a facade of recycl-ability, so that plastic keeps being produced. People are also encouraged/tricked to put garbage that bears look-alike recycle codes into their municipal recycling. As a result, recycled plastics are contaminated, become garbage, and more new plastics are generated.

Recycling codes are used to identify the materials out of which the item is made, to facilitate easier recycling process. The presence on an item of a recycling code, a chasing arrows logo, or a resin code, is not an automatic indicator that a material is recyclable; it is an explanation of what the item is made of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_codes#Alternative_recycling_labels

I like desserts more than deserts, so there's a double S in dessert - that's my mnemonic :D

This is purely speculation on my part, but I think the Canadian Medical Association, the group which represents Canadian physicians, is interested in maintaining a shortage of physicians and, for example, would vehemently oppose graduating 5-10% more physicians starting now as a means of filling the physician gap. Their motivation is to keep existing physicians in very high demand so that they can maximize compensation and job security.

I think the ultimate problem (neoliberalism) is that there are too many people in positions of power that are trying to profiteer off of a system that's intended to provide a public service (e.g., privatization of healthcare, hospital inaccessibility in rural communities, the large number of Canadians without a primary care provider)

Birds in a rowboat is pretty funny :)

“This winter is sort of a prelude to what we’re gonna see in the future,” said Pidwirny, a University of British Columbia associate professor of environmental sciences. “By 2050, the average winter will actually be warmer than this winter.”

Unlike worldnews@lemmy.world, the .ml world news community has not been censoring valid criticism of Israel and their genocide of the Palestinian people

"I think we should protect the rights of parents to make their own decisions with regards to their children." [-PP]

Asked to state definitively if he's opposed to puberty blockers for people under the age of 18, Poilievre said he is.

So, in other words, he's only for 'parental rights' (/s) when they're useful for suppressing trans rights

Chronic Wasting Disease is now the largest biomass of infectious prions in global history and many experts are concerned that a spillover into humans could cause a nightmarish pandemic. Following the experimental transfer of the chronic wasting disease to macaques, the closest non-human primates allowed in research, Health Canada concluded in 2017 that “CWD has the potential to infect humans.”

Yet Rowledge estimates that as many as 25,000 hunters are eating contaminated venison every year on the continent.

But Rowledge told the Tyee that governments have been watching the spread of the disease for decades and doing nothing. The fact that there still exist game ranches in Alberta and Saskatchewan actively spreading disease, he added, is scandalous.

Federal New Democrats say it's time for Canada to do to the fossil fuel industry what it did to tobacco companies by banning misleading ads that market the industry as offering a solution to climate change.

The NDP's natural resources critic Charlie Angus tabled a private members bill (C-372) in the House of Commons this week. The bill would ban what the party describes as misleading fossil fuel advertising, similar to the way cigarette ads were restricted in the 1990s.

At a news conference Tuesday, Angus said Canada's oil industry is shifting its "propaganda" strategy by promoting its products as clean and claiming they can be part of the climate solution.

"That's like Benson and Hedges telling you that they can help end lung cancer," Angus said. "This is because big oil has always relied on the big tobacco playbook of delay and disinformation."

The new bill would outlaw marketing that downplays the climate-altering emissions and health hazards associated with the industry, or promotes fossil fuels in ways that are false, misleading or deceptive.

Health Canada estimates that air pollution caused primarily by burning fossil fuels in North America contributes to 15,300 premature deaths per year in Canada. The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) cites research that states fossil fuel air pollution in Canada leads to 34,000 premature deaths annually.

CAPE claims Pathways's net-zero ads were misleading because the consortium has not fully accounted for how it would achieve net-zero emissions.

"This is false. Oil can never be net-zero because 80 per cent of the life cycle emissions are released when oil is burned," said Leah Temper, CAPE's director of health and economic policy.