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TODAY'S DISCUSSION
As I have promised, I would inform my readers of any new developments in the Ontario Health Care System. Unfortunately, it sounds like it's an even worse mess than when I last read their report. *- Google Search -* is a far better source for more recent reports than I can find in mainstream news.
Here is an Update on the Ontario Health Care Status
🔹AI Overview
A new report released in early August 2026 by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) warns that Ontario's healthcare system is under severe financial strain, facing rising deficits, job cuts, and a backlog of roughly 200,000 surgeries. Meanwhile, the provincial government defends its record, pointing to a record $101 billion health investment and ongoing major hospital expansions.
Union and Research Findings
- Financial Strain: CUPE reports that daily operating budgets are strained, forcing some hospitals to borrow money for payroll amid rising costs for supplies and services.
- Funding Demand: The union is urging the province to inject an additional $5 billion over three years to boost staffing, increase bed capacity, and clear surgical backlogs.
- System Pressures: The report highlights persistent hallway medicine, accelerating wait times, and strains from an aging population
Provincial Government Response
- Record Spending: The Ministry of Health states that Ontario is investing a record $101 billion into health care this year, featuring a 4% increase in hospital sector funding for the third consecutive year.
- Infrastructure Investments: The province highlights a $60-plus billion commitment toward over 60 major hospital development projects designed to add 3,000 new hospital beds.
- Primary Care Goals: ...
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In my opinion, the BILLIONS of dollars the Federal Government gave to the Province of Ontario to aid health care had zero effect, like the money never got there or just magically went, poof! It didn't go poof; it went to PRIVATE MEDICAL CLINICS AND STAFFING SERVICES, TWO MAJOR RECIPIENTS OF INFLATED PAYMENTS FOR SERVICES THAT, INSTEAD OF BEING PROVIDED IN OUR PUBLIC SYSTEM AS THEY HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS, ARE BEING SENT TO PRIVATE PROVIDERS. THIS IS A HUGE BLOW TO OUR PROVINCIAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BY THE FORD REGIME! ISN'T IT TIME WE ALL GOT OUT THERE WITH OUR LITTLE PICKET SIGNS, OR STARTED TO PHONE AND EMAIL OUR MEMBERS OF PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT?
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Question: 2024 Trudeau allocates how many billions for Ontario Health Care?
🔹AI Overview
In February 2024, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed a targeted bilateral health agreement allocating$3.1 billion in federal funding over three years to improve and reform Ontario's health care system.
Question: Carney allocates billions for Ontario health Care
🔹AI Overview
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a $51 billion Build Communities Strong Fund, which includes a dedicated $5 billion national allocation over three years for healthcare infrastructure. Under this broader municipal and provincial funding framework, Ontario is slated to receive $6 billion total from the main provincial stream to support regional needs.
🔹AI Overview
A recent healthcare analysis released by hospital unions and public health bodies in early August 2026 highlights a deepening financial strain on Ontario hospitals. Day-to-day operating funds have reportedly dropped significantly since 2020, leading worker associations to call for a $5 billion provincial investment to tackle surgical backlogs and emergency room pressures, while the Ministry of Health maintains it is increasing investments and advancing primary care expansion.
WHY, AFTER ALL THOSE BILLIONS, DO WE STILL HAVE A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN SUCH DIRE TROUBLE? LET US ASK FORD WHY EMERGENCY ROOMS AND RURAL HOSPITALS ARE STILL CLOSING, WAITING TIME IN EMERGENCY ROOMS CAN BE MORE THAN 12 HOURS, AND NURSES ARE HIRED AT THE EXORBITANT HOURLY RATES PAID TO PRIVATE STAFFING AGENCIES? WHY DO WE STILL HAVE A SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS? DEMAND FORD ANSWERS FOR THIS MESS!
BREAKING NEWS RECAP:
U.S. economy loses 23,000 jobs in July, as Trump-era economy continues to struggle
Trump said this week that Americans have “the greatest economy maybe in the history of the world.” Reality keeps pointing in the opposite direction.
Expectations heading into this week showed projections of about 83,000 new jobs being created in the United States in July. As it turns out, according to the new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the totals fell far short of those expectations. CNBC reported:
The U.S. economy saw an unexpected declined in jobs during July while the unemployment rate edged lower, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday in a snapshot that showed a slowing employment picture.
Nonfarm payrolls fell by a seasonally adjusted 23,000 for the month, compared to a downwardly revised 20,000 for June. The Dow Jones consensus forecast had been looking for a gain of 83,000.
- Job numbers disappoint again as 2026 reaches halfway point:
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Aug. 7, 2026, 8:45 AM EDT
- MS NOW -
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Iran’s Hormuz deal with Oman has Trump poised for the big surrender
Trump started bombing Iran again to keep it from having control over the Strait of Hormuz. That gambit failed — again.
Iran and Oman are reportedly finalizing a deal to control the Strait of Hormuz, charging ships fees for passage, and potentially blocking ships from “hostile countries.” Trump resumed bombing in early July to prevent Iran from doing just that, and President Donald Trump has flitted between claiming the United States will control Hormuz and charge tolls, pretending the strait is already open and threatening to “hit very hard” if Iran doesn’t fully open it soon.
Yet Trump and other top U.S. officials, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, are touting the Iran-Oman talks as diplomatic progress, indicating they’re going to accept a deal on Iran’s terms.
This would arguably be America’s most blatant loss in war ever, especially for a war the U.S. started...
- This would arguably be America’s most blatant loss in war ever, especially for a war the U.S. started.:
- An empowered, more hard-line Iran, acknowledged as the premier power of the Persian Gulf, and with a big new stream of revenue might be less bad than a costly ground operation or more bombing just to get to the same result.:
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Aug. 7, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT
- MS NOW -
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How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington
A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.
In January, the World of Concrete trade show drew 47,000 people to the Las Vegas Convention Center. One of them was the manager of a Trump Organization golf club in New Jersey, who had come seeking help with an enormous, unfamiliar task. The manager, David Schutzenhofer, wanted ideas for how to fix the leaking, algae-ridden Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.
Several vendors told him they knew just the guy to call: Rodney Jarboe, the president of the Missouri-based company Creative Polymers. Mr. Jarboe had worked on a bridge at another federal landmark, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
In an interview, Mr. Jarboe said he first spoke in March with Mr. Schutzenhofer, who made clear that the work would be rushed. President Trump, Mr. Jarboe said he was told, wanted the renovation project done in time for the country’s 250th birthday on July 4...
- Visual Analysis Finds Dozens of Defects in Reflecting Pool Renovation:
- A Novel Solution
- The 100-Year Liner
- A Remarkable Filing
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Updated Aug. 7, 2026 - 8:49 a.m. ET
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CANADIAN NEWS:
Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years
Statistics Canada says gains split between full-time, part-time work
Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, up 0.4 per cent, as the unemployment fell to 6.4 per cent, its lowest level in two years. Statistics Canada's labour force survey released on Friday said most of those gains were split between full- and part-time work, as wholesale and retail trade alone added 21,000 new jobs.
The agency says employment rose for people aged 25 to 54, and mostly for women in that age group. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 per cent for men aged 25 to 54, StatsCan says, while falling 5.2 per cent for women in that cohort...
Unemployment Rate In Canada Chart Included
LISTEN | Carney wants to add more skilled trades jobs. How will those workers be trained:
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Posted: Aug 07, 2026 9:03 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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BREAKING: Trump signs new executive orders seeking to restrict birthright citizenship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTiOXnvqsE




