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Automated readers at border crossings cannot read new Ontario plates: source

Chris Herhalt CTV News Toronto
Published Monday, February 24, 2020 5:15AM EST

toronto.ctvnews.ca

Border officials say 'no issues' in reading new Ontario plates

The Canadian Border Services Agency says that it has not experienced any issues with the reading of the Ontario government’s new licence plates.
toronto.ctvnews.ca
 
Hundreds of patients have raised concerns about their dealings with hospitals, long-term care facilities and home care over the past year, Ontario's patient ombudsman's office says in a new report to be released Tuesday.

Communication breakdowns in the health sector are a theme, the report says. That includes such things as patients getting inadequate information about their discharge from hospital or getting conflicting information about obtaining a long-term care spot.

Another trend in complaints revealed in the report is access to care, such as limited availability of mental health and addictions services and a lack of consistent home care.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...complaints-patient-ombudsman-report-1.5474770
 
tiffer24 said:
Hundreds of patients have raised concerns about their dealings with hospitals, long-term care facilities and home care over the past year, Ontario's patient ombudsman's office says in a new report to be released Tuesday.

Communication breakdowns in the health sector are a theme, the report says. That includes such things as patients getting inadequate information about their discharge from hospital or getting conflicting information about obtaining a long-term care spot.

Another trend in complaints revealed in the report is access to care, such as limited availability of mental health and addictions services and a lack of consistent home care.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...complaints-patient-ombudsman-report-1.5474770
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Many of these issues aren't new. They are likely being exacerbated by ongoing financial pressures and demographic ones (aging population)

I can tell you that discharge forms aren't even mandatory in ERs in this province (I can't understand that); and they are not consistent even within many hospitals, let alone across the province.

Much as with E-Health, we are now, at the very least, a generation behind where we should be.

Multiple governments, at least going as far back as Harris can share blame for a combination of inaction, ineptitude and under funding that really isn't forgivable.
 
Remember back in September, 2019, this article...

Ford declares ‘I’m a big Republican’ but questions Trump on trade protectionism

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Now we know why Doug seems to be so against education in general. Wonder how much Doug likes this GOP...

GOP Lawmaker Wants To End Higher Education To ‘Save America’ From Liberals

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Conservative Christians fear education: Tennessee State Senator Kerry Roberts wants to “save America” by putting an end to higher education because it is a “liberal breeding ground.”

The Hill reports:
A Tennessee state GOP lawmaker has called for getting rid of the entire higher education system, asserting that such a move would “save America.”
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State Sen. Kerry Roberts made the remarks while speaking on his conservative talk radio show. He addressed his problems with the higher education system while discussing a recent legislative hearing focused on abortion legislation.
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Earlier this month, while speaking on his radio show, State Senator Roberts suggested putting an end to higher education in Tennessee, declaring
… If there’s one thing that we can do to save America today, it is to get rid of our institutions of higher education right now, and cut the liberal breeding ground off! Good grief! The stupid stuff that our kids are being taught is absolutely ridiculous, and this is a woman who’s a product of higher education. She’s learned all of this stuff that flies in the face of what we stand for as a country!
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And here we are as legislators paying for this garbage to be taught to our children, and we’re not doing anything about it. And all these red states across America, we let it exist, and it’s absolutely unbelievable. And this is the price that we pay: the murder of over half a million innocent lives every year, with people sitting there, justifying it to their last breath.
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It’s no secret that conservative Christians want to keep people stupid. Once someone learns to think critically about the world, they often abandon religious superstition. It is something that conservative Christian parents often complain about, and worry about. The story is often repeated: “Good Christian” parents send their child to college, only for that child to learn to think critically, and abandon the ignorance and religious superstition of their parents.

As for Senator Roberts, according to his Senate biography, he received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Lipscomb University, a Christian college near Nashville, in 1983. Christian college. Yet despite his dubious college degree, Roberts frequently bashes higher education.
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New glitches emerge in Ontario's teacher strike payment system

Parents receive emails rejecting requests for financial support for school days lost to strikes

Mike Crawley · CBC News · Posted: Feb 27, 2020 5:00 AM ET

Ontario parents are reporting new problems with the Ministry of Education's payments for school days lost to teacher strikes, including applications being rejected for unknown reasons.

The province has sent emails telling parents their children's information "could not be verified," even though their children are actually eligible for the payments.

 
AlbertC said:
New glitches emerge in Ontario's teacher strike payment system

Parents receive emails rejecting requests for financial support for school days lost to strikes

Mike Crawley · CBC News · Posted: Feb 27, 2020 5:00 AM ET

Ontario parents are reporting new problems with the Ministry of Education's payments for school days lost to teacher strikes, including applications being rejected for unknown reasons.

The province has sent emails telling parents their children's information "could not be verified," even though their children are actually eligible for the payments.

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Which translates to me as "we have one whole person working part-time on providing these refunds".
 
tiffer24 said:
Report says frontline Ontario staff did not know how to recall the errant mass alert about Pickering's nuclear plant on Jan. 12, and neither did their supervisors.

https://www.cp24.com/news/frontline...recall-pickering-mass-nuclear-alert-1.4829717
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Does anyone in that chain know what they're doing? From the article:

1. Officer on duty at Ontario’s Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC) logged into the actual live system used to send alerts across the province, thinking it was the training and test version of the service, in part because both systems look almost identical.

2. The duty officer who sent the alert immediately recognized their mistake, but supervisors did not know how to send a proper recall alert, and didn’t give any immediate orders.

3. To make matters worse, investigators found that “unrelated information” about Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, including a possible rumour about a fire there the night before, “added confusion to senior Ontario Public Service executives’ understanding of the situation.”

4. The PEOC had a planned template for an “end alert” meant to be sent in the event of a mistaken alert, but nobody could find it the morning of the Pickering alert.

5. The private vendor that provided the system to the province, Pelmorex, advised against sending a second “end alert” correction during the confusion.

6. Investigators also learned that up until Jan. 12, none of the PEOC’s saved message templates in the event of an emergency were available in French.

Like - W. T. F.??

AoD
 
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