Farmers ‘very worried’ as US pesticide firms push to bar cancer diagnoses lawsuits
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/pesticide-lawsuits-cancer-gag-act
Pesticide company efforts to push through ‘Cancer Gag Act’ laws that could block litigation against them is igniting battles in several US farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other.
[Norfolk Southern Corporation] Reprehensible corporate behavior
https://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/7592
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_Southern_Railway#2023_Ohio_derailment
* 2023: Norfolk Southern Railway freight train carrying chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio
* aftermath: company accused of prioritizing $10 billion stock buybacks
* settlement included $310 million for cleanup efforts, penalties, future costs assoc. w. environmental impact
To be clear, #DougFord's current Minister of Long Term Care is Stan Cho, however it is Housing Minister Paul Calandra who has the audacity to count long term care beds towards his new housing build numbers.
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703
Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.
True story…
I had a 50ish patient with new acute #backpain superimposed on, but different from, long-standing chronic back pain. On #history and #exam they had NEW lower extremity neurologic findings. I ordered an #MRI, which was the appropriate next step at the time.
I was forced to spend two evenings on hold for something like 20-30min for "pre-authorization"… two because they hung up on me the first time. I had to re-type a 20 digit code three times as they redirected me internally… finally spoke to the "physician in authority" and… HE READ MY OWN CHART BACK TO ME!! … then blithely approved the study. <insert swear words here!>
This is my Exhibit A for #HealthInsurance #malfeasance. (A complete waste of my time and that was the point! Unethical, and should be illegal.) Ironically I had a very conservative approach to imaging. That was probably the first new study I had ordered for back pain in months.
2018 Ford: “I govern through the people. The people have spoken – we won’t touch the Greenbelt."
2019 Ford: “1000% no, we’re not touching the healthcare sector, not making it a private sector”
2023 Ford: "No Ontarian will ever have to pay with a credit card. They will pay with their OHIP card."
He is deceitful. He's selling off #Healthcare & #Greenbelt to his wealthy buddies & corporate donors. These players stand to make unimaginable profit at taxpayers expense.
The #Ontario Provincial Conservative's UNDERSPENT the health budget by $3.5 BILLION in the first half of 2022.
The Ford government underspent our healthcare dollars, during a pandemic, but is currently asking the Federal government for more healthcare money ... with no strings attached. 
#IDontThinkSoDoug
#Ontario #malfeasance #healthcare #SpendWhatYouHave
The amazing cartoonist @DeAdder. Brilliant.
“And look here, the very last ring is when I became Premier of Ontario.”
#greenbelt #malfeasance #ontario #bill23 #hwy413 #BrokenPromisesPremier
When I was a youngster, I remember my mother frantically scrounging together coins to pay for a visit by a small-town #Ontario doctor.
We kids were desperately sick, and she was exhausted & frightened enough to call him, despite the cost.
So, it is unsettling to hear rumblings that these govt's are also banking on widespread illness, death & healthcare chaos to make us think Canada's public healthcare has failed and that we would receive better care if we paid.
