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Jan 1, 2026 - Alberta is Privatizing Healthcare

Alberta's government, led by Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, passed a new law, Bill 11: The Health Statutes Amendment Act, last week. With its passage the existential threat to public medicare in Canada is here. The new law sets up two-tier medicare and private health insurance in Alberta. It is terrible for Albertans, destroys single-tier public medicare in Canada as a national achievement, and puts at threat public healthcare across the country. It follows on the heels of the Alberta government's repeated use of the Notwithstanding Clause to enable violations of the Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and an emboldened push for Alberta's separation from Canada among some forces in the province.

Source: The Bullet No. 3242

Dec 31, 2025 - First Venezuela (Then China?)

By Atilio A. Boron

The escalation of US aggression against Venezuela seems unstoppable, while extrajudicial executions by US forces accumulate in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Threats are becoming increasingly vocal in Washington, and naval and air blockades are intensifying by the hour. These measures violate the United Nations Charter and international law, but US President Donald Trump and his henchmen seem determined to do whatever it takes to subjugate the South American country. It remains to be seen, however, whether with an invasion they want to create their own Vietnam or Afghanistan; in other words, whether they are stupid enough to start another fire but this time not in distant lands but in the front yard of the United States.

Source: The Bullet No. 3241

Dec 26, 2025 - The American Dream, We Hardly Knew You

By John Miller

If Americans' hopes of getting ahead have dimmed, as the Wall Street Journal reports yet again, it could only be because the lid of the coffin in which the "American Dream" was long ago laid to rest has finally been sealed shut. The promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will get ahead, or if you don't, surely your children will, was broken long ago. And today's economic hardships have left young adults distinctly worse off than their parents, and especially their grandparents.

Source: The Bullet No. 3240

Dec 25, 2025 - The Notwithstanding Clause: A Tool for Authoritarianism in Canada

By William Paul

The "clause" is the "notwithstanding clause," otherwise known as Section 33 of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith has been busy these past couple of months, invoking it to protect legislation affecting schools, labour, and families. Over the past few years, premiers have come to see the "notwithstanding clause" as a handy tool to avoid court challenges to legislation. But it is undermining democracy, and the problem is getting worse.

Source: The Bullet No. 3239

Dec 18, 2025 - Ontario Government is Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit

By Ontario Health Coalition

Ontario's public hospitals have been pushed into deficit and ordered to find cuts, while the government of Doug Ford shunts hundreds of millions of public dollars away from them to for-profit clinics, the Ontario Health Coalition warned on December 11 on the heels of the province's announcement of plans to privatize thousands of orthopedic surgeries.

Source: The Bullet No. 3238