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Well, it started out being just another gray, crappy day, but now it appears like it's trying to clear up. Still chilly out, so I need to wear my coat.
"HAPPY PENGUIN DAY!" -π§
It certainly appears like it's going to be a "don't put that coat away" kind of summer. By the looks of the pattern, the dum-dum sagging jet stream isn't moving, so we get penguin and polar bear weather. This weather would be Palm Springs, California, for them.
I'm feeling much better today and much sharper in the thinking department than I have been the last couple of days. Thanks for your patience for my return from the Twilight Zone.
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UPDATE:
Please TAKE NOTE of this:
The last time this was done during the Trudeau administration, the money just vanished. Well, nothing improved; if anything, it got worse!!! Where did the money go???
The Trudeau administration provided a $3.1 billion, three-year healthcare funding deal with Ontario.in February 2024.
"WATCH THE MONEY!"
Whose pocket is our health care money going into?
ONTARIO HEALTH CARE REPORT.
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Question: Is there something the government can do with the failing health care in Ontario, and why has it not been done?
AI Overview
Yes, the Ontario government is implementing several strategies to address the ongoing healthcare crisis, with a focus in the 2026 budget on expanding primary care teams, increasing hospital funding, and utilizing private clinics for public services. However, critics argue these measures are not enough to address long-term understaffing and financial pressures in the public system.
Key Government Actions and Strategies (2026):
• Primary Care Expansion: Government investing (\$3.4\) billion over four years
• Hospital Funding & Capacity: 2026, roughly 3,000 new hospital beds over the next decade.
• Alternative Care Delivery:
The government is expanding the role of pharmacists (e.g., prescribing for more ailments) and utilizing independent health facilities (private clinics) for public-funded surgeries to reduce
• backlog. Healthcare Staffing:
• Digital Modernization:
• Recommendations from Medical Professionals & Critics:
Key Recommendations from Medical Professionals & Critics:
• Increasing Funding: The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) argues that hospital funding needs to increase by \(6\%\) annually to keep up with inflation and population growth, rather than the current levels, which have led to some hospitals cutting staff.
• Focus on Staff Retention:
• Rural Support:
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SO CHARGE US MORE FOR MORE SERVICES DELIVERED! But first, get the thieves out of health care. I am quite certain you wouldn't have to look very hard to find them because they're all a bunch of greedy, unfeeling, boneheads. "IDIOTS!"
The money allotted for Health Care SHOULD NOT go to PIRACY of paying down the province's budget deficit or to spending more on privatization. Obviously, the money is not going to pay nurses. Nurses had to strike and go to court to force the province to pay them their last increase. And doctors aren't benefitting, either. The Ontario requirements for foreign-educated physicians to begin practice are daunting at best, and the province's compensation package is so unattractive that BC is getting the new hires instead! Somehow, the money gets spent, but on what? It's little wonder there's any money left for the hospitals and health care workers.
I'm not a holier-than-thou person. I fall short and sometimes detest, greatly, someone or something, to the point I do sometimes wish I were an ankle-biter in a sea of ankles to bite π Except for that fat orange ankle, I'll borrow someone else's mouth to bite on that one. "Hey, Billy, c'mon over here, son! I gots a job for you."
I believe that's enough comic book for the day, let us go on with the Breaking News and world events. Thank you for reading the Tree House News.
BREAKING NEWS:
Trump arrives in China ahead of crucial Xi meeting
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping must navigate issues including tech, trade, Iran and Taiwan.
Here's The Latest:
• Arrival in Beijing: US President Donald Trump arrived in China’s capital and was welcomed with a ceremony replete with pomp and pageantry for the start of a high stakes visit carrying global consequences, as the world’s two largest economies frame their trade relationship.
• High-stakes talks: After Trump’s first night in Beijing, he will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to discuss a range of thorny issues including tech, trade and Taiwan.
• Iran’s shadow: The US-Israeli war with Iran, and ensuing global energy crisis, looms over the trip. Trump is expected to encourage Xi to push China-ally Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint vital to oil trade, and agree to a peace deal.
• CEO caravan: Traveling with Trump are top officials and more than a dozen business leaders including Tim Cook and Elon Musk. Catch up on all the key developments here.
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China’s grasp of high-stakes public statecraft to be put to the test
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In wild late-night posting spree, Trump attacks Obama with imaginary quote and false conspiracy theories
President Donald Trump was at it again.
On Monday night, Trump embarked on one of his periodic late-night social media posting sprees. As usual, his dozens of posts and reposts were littered with debunked conspiracy theories and other wildly inaccurate claims – many of them about past presidential elections and his Democratic foes, notably including former President Barack Obama.
Trump’s posting continued on Tuesday morning. So did his wrongness. Here’s a brief fact-check breakdown of just some of the content to which readers of his Truth Social feed were treated between about 10pm on Monday and about 8am on Tuesday...
- An imaginary quote attributed to a Republican senator:
- Multiple false conspiracy theories about Obama:
- Extensive lying about the 2020 election:
- A baseless assertion that The New York Times is losing subscribers:
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PUBLISHED May 12, 2026, 3:23 PM ET - 17 hr ago
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How gerrymandering is holding the MAGA movement together
The midterms could be a wakeup call for Republicans as Trump flounders — but the GOP’s redistricting has the president’s grip stronger than ever.
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Everywhere you look, the MAGA coalition that propelled Donald Trump back into the Oval Office is fracturing. The president’s poll numbers are plummeting across key demographics and dragging down congressional Republicans hoping to keep their jobs in November. Two weeks ago, the outlook for the GOP was looking especially grim, with predictions showing the House would almost surely be lost in the midterms and Republicans hanging on to the Senate by a thread.
Then, in the span of about 10 days, everything shifted. The redistricting war Trump had begun, which had been looking like Napoleon’s doomed invasion of Russia, suddenly swung back in Republicans’ favor. The U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to a rush of racial redistricting across the South, and Virginia’s Supreme Court reversed Democrats’ gains in Virginia. The resulting Republican gerrymandering is acting as a superglue binding the GOP’s splintering hopes for surviving the midterms, but that gerrymandering leaves the party as fragile as ever in the long-term and destined to fall apart once Democrats can fully respond in kind.
- Republican gerrymandering is acting as a superglue binding the GOP’s splintering hopes for surviving the midterms:
- In putting off any reckoning of how Trump’s policies have hurt their constituents, lawmakers are putting a larger target on their backs for further down the road:
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May. 13, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT
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What a pile of pathetic and apathetic horseshit π© excuses for Supreme Court justices, my ever-lovin arse (‿Λ ‿). a big pile of Supreme Court π©ty (‿Λ ‿) judges
A BIG PILE OF CROOKED DAFFY-DUCK-SHIT π¦π© JUDGES.
Them there comie republicans are all a bunch of Goof Ball Hittler wannabees.
"Boy! Wouldn't Hitler be... not just turning in the box they buried him in, he's probably dancing a jig in his box right about now. "Hey, Billy, get the whisky, I'll get me ten-ton whistle!"
CANADIAN NEWS:
AI transcriber for use by Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors, auditor finds
Auditor says government testing of systems 'inadequate,' province says errors only in testing phase
Artificial intelligence note-taking tools intended for use by Ontario doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated "hallucinations," and were not evaluated adequately, the province’s auditor general says in a new report. Ontario Auditor General Shelley Spence made the finding in the course of a broader probe of artificial intelligence use across the provincial public service.
During a provincial procurement process for AI medical systems that transcribe conversations between doctors and patients, government evaluators found serious errors in transcripts generated by 20 programs, she said...
- Some AI scribes captured false drug prescriptions:
- Errors made during testing phase of AI programs:
Posted: May 13, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
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Are Canadians reaching their 'breaking point'? New data shows more people filing for insolvency
First 3 months of 2026 saw the highest number of insolvencies since 2009
More Canadians are filing for insolvency, according to the latest data from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, as rising costs stretch consumers to their limits.
Some 37,121 Canadians filed for insolvency in the first quarter of 2026 — the highest number of consumer insolvencies since 2009, when North America was reeling from the financial crisis. Compared to the same time period last year, insolvencies are up 8.5 per cent. However, the population now is higher than in 2009...
- Bankruptcies rising faster than proposals in some provinces:
WATCH | Young Canadians are debt stressed, and buy now pay later plans aren't helping:
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Posted: May 12, 2026 6:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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OUR ANEMIC ONTARIO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS ON LIFE SUPPORT
Dr. Ford says she's doing fine.
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