CPP412 - No More Cantaloupes

This week Gavin and Pierre are on the panel to discuss federal vote buying, we mean dental insurance. Groceries cost more, but the healthcare system will help you kill yourself if they stop firing doctors.

Intro

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News

Federal government to announce details of dental insurance plan

https://www.cp24.com/news/federal-government-to-announce-details-of-dental-insurance-plan-1.6681990

• The federal government hopes to avoid gumming up the works of its new dental-insurance plan by gradually phasing in enrolment over the course of the next year

• Seniors over the age of 87 will be the first cohort to be able to apply to join a new federal dental-insurance plan.

• It will be slowly expanded over the course of 2024 to include all qualifying seniors, children under the age of 18 and people with disabilities.

• Holland announced the rollout of the program, which is currently budgeted to cost $13 billion over the next five years

• The program is aimed at people with an annual household income under $90,000 who don't have access to private insurance.

• Coverage will include preventive, diagnostic, restorative and surgical services — including X-rays, fillings, root canal treatments and dentures, among others

• Once eligibility is expanded to all qualifying Canadian residents in 2025, it will be the government's largest social program.

• The insurance plan is a key pillar in the Liberal's supply-and-confidence deal with the New Democrats to secure the opposition party's support on key votes.

 

'I'm so broken': Grieving family speaks out after B.C. cancer patient awaiting treatment chooses MAID

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/i-m-so-broken-grieving-family-speaks-out-after-b-c-cancer-patient-awaiting-treatment-chooses-maid-1.6675742

• Kathleen Carmichael says B.C.’s health-care system let her family down. Her partner, Dan Quayle, opted for a medically assisted death It was a choice he made after waiting for chemotherapy and treatment that didn’t come fast enough.

• The oncologist would come in and say, 'We’re pretty backlogged right now so hang in there

• But Quayle ran out of time. The 52-year-old grandfather – described as jolly, big-hearted and playful – died on Nov. 24.

• Quayle was diagnosed with esophageal cancer months after first feeling ill.

• While he waited for treatment, his health declined, which led him to choose MAID

• The family’s pain emerges as numbers reported on radiation therapy reveal that only 75 per cent of patients in B.C. are receiving it within the recommended 28-day benchmark — lower than the 77 per cent in May when the province started sending patients to the U.S. for radiation due to long waits in B.C.

• The province has hired 61 oncologists and 27 radiation therapists since April. The health minister says those waiting longer than the benchmarks for radiation are being prioritized. “Those numbers — the people waiting 28 days are going to fall — because there are fewer people now on the waitlist,” said Dix Tuesday.

 

Here's how much more it's expected to cost to feed a family of 4 in Canada next year

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/here-s-how-much-more-it-s-expected-to-cost-to-feed-a-family-of-4-in-canada-next-year-1.6675985

• In 2022, a report estimated the overall food price increases would be between five to seven per cent — the latest data from Statistics Canada pegs the food inflation rate at 5.9 per cent.

• In the latest edition of the annual report, the authors believe the overall rate of inflation will be lower in 2024, falling to somewhere between 2.5 and 4.5 per cent.

• According to Charlebois, things are "much calmer now," which could result in more deals and potentially some price wars between the big grocers.

• "Margins are going to be everything," he said. "And because consumers don't have any money now, grocers will be fighting for our business."

• Over the next year, Charlebois believes grocery stores will be offering more incentives to consumers like loyalty programs and deals to entice people.

• One of the tactics used is selling items at a loss, which brings the customer through the grocer's doors, but then the store would increase the prices for other items, hoping the consumer will buy those as well, he explained.

 

One way to save money on groceries… no more cantaloupes

 

Death toll rises to five in cantaloupe salmonella outbreak, as cases almost double

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/death-toll-rises-to-five-in-cantaloupe-salmonella-outbreak-as-cases-almost-double-1.6678564

• Five people have died in a salmonella outbreak linked to Malichita and Rudy brand cantaloupes sold in six provinces.

• The Public Health Agency of Canada says 129 people have been confirmed with salmonella linked to the outbreak, almost double the number at the last update on Dec. 1, when a single death had been recorded.

• There are also 17 cases in Ontario, 15 in British Columbia, and two each in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.

• The agency says 45 per cent of those who became ill were aged 65 and older while more than a third were children five and younger. people became sick between mid-October and mid-November, and 44 have been hospitalized People who are infected with salmonella bacteria can spread salmonella to other people several days to several weeks after they have become infected

Widow takes Ontario police to court over declaration misconduct in her husband's death was 'not serious'

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/widow-takes-ontario-police-to-court-over-declaration-misconduct-in-her-husband-s-death-was-not-serious-1.6681891

• A grieving widow is taking the Ontario Provincial Police to court as she challenges its decision to call the misconduct of an officer that contributed to her husband’s death “not of a serious nature” – a decision that denied her access to a public hearing in the case.

• A CTV News investigation shows that the OPP has declared misconduct by its own officers not serious about 80 per cent of the time in the last five years, and sends identical paragraphs that don’t explain its reasoning in cases from neglect of duty to unlawful use of force.

• Courtney D’Arthenay said she couldn’t believe she received a boilerplate letter informing her that the OPP would resolve her complaint without a hearing after an officer accidentally struck and killed her husband Tyler Dorzyk while speeding near Barrie in 2020.

B.C. doctor fired for refusing COVID-19 shot loses bid to get hospital privileges back

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/theresa-szezepaniak-bc-hospital-appeal-board-covid-vaccine-1.7046988

• Dr. Theresa Szezepaniak was fired from Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops in 2021

• The Hospital Appeal Board has found that Dr. Theresa Szezepaniak's refusal of the shot in 2021 amounted to neglect of her obligations as a hospitalist at Royal Inland Hospital, and the decision to take action on her privileges was appropriate.

• "The appellant [Szezepaniak] says that IH is required to respect her exercise of her Charter rights," an appeal board panel wrote in a Nov. 20 decision.

• "The implication is that in order to respect her decision IH must not take any steps that hold the appellant accountable for the consequences of that decision. Having the right to make a decision, and your right to do so acknowledged, or respected, is not the same as being held responsible for the consequences."

• in other words, the decision says, Interior Health didn't challenge Szezekpaniak's right to refuse the vaccine, but it did hold her accountable for the fact that choice left her unable to work under provincial law.

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