Flying Colours Woven

12/19/2025

"They don’t chase the puck — they anticipate it."

"this shift matters — economically, culturally, long-term"

12/13/2025

From my favourite theoretical astrophysicist (who studies the universe from beginning to end), Dr Katie Mack...

12/12/2025

My meta to you on this snowy day..."I hope you make it..."

12/06/2025

"we’re all getting lost debating the individual moves happening here at home and missing the bigger picture. The decisions PM Carney and others are making aren’t random or disconnected. They’re the early outline of Canada’s response to a very real American strategy."

12/05/2025

"Observations, measurements, experimental results; gathered through rigorous, standardized methods.
And observable, measurable, and reproducible by others.
And just published in JAMA."

Yup.
We are vaccinated.

11/30/2025

If I pay to have my shoulders replaced privately, will the surgical list in the public system get shorter?

No.

In fact the list in the public system may get longer.

There is a FINITE number of physicians, OR nurses, anaesthesiologists etc. There are not enough HSWs to run 2 systems.

Did you know that there are ORs not being scheduled/used in the public system?

Surgeons want OR time to work and shorten their lists.

If HCWs are working in the private system then they are not available to work in the public system.

If I pay ($40,000/shoulder), those of you on the list waiting for joint replacement will end up waiting longer.

Jumping the surgical cue is not sustainable for our healthcare system.

I have been on the surgical list now for almost 2 years and will wait my turn.

My decision is not really that noble as I am using the wait time to rehab the shoulders.
If my rehab goes well, I may opt out of surgery!

That's a win/win in my books!

11/22/2025

UCP wasted...
$125 million on trying to switch to DynaLife lab services then reversing
$70M lost on Turkish Tylenol (now in storage, costs for disposal TBD)
$238M payouts for coal companies
$1.5B loss Keystone pipeline

And...92% of Albertans think that oil and gas companies should pay for well cleanup, unpaid municipal taxes, and unpaid land rents

How, in any stretch of the imagination, does anyone think this is this good governance???

11/18/2025

Today was a very good day.

There are a lot of things I still struggle to accomplish, a lot of things I wish I could attempt and a lot of things I really miss doing.

But today is a good day as I reflect on the things I now can get done that seemed impossible not so long ago.

Living with chronic pain is a mercurial dance. Two steps forward, one step back.

Today I'm back in the pool. I'm back in the pool now stronger and with more ROM than 6 months ago. :)

11/09/2025

"Politicians would have you believe we are on opposite ends of every issue, whereas the real battle is a top vs bottom battle."

11/02/2025

10/30/2025

"this is a manufactured crisis that could've been avoided years ago, but was used as a litmus test to see if they can sell off our public services, and then take away rights of groups of people in a single day. Lo and behold, they seem to have succeeded."

10/28/2025

AMA Section of Pediatrics sent a letter to Minister of Education Nicolaides outlining concerns with the growing gap between children's needs in our classrooms and available classroom resources. https://www.albertadoctors.org/news/news/investing-in-classrooms-that-support-every-child/