I stumbled upon this today while reading through my Google Reader feeds. It’s a pretty interesting read for those down south who think free healthcare is the way to go. Our healthcare is nothing to rave about, trust me.

Read the article

How can you praise a healthcare system where you have to wait up to two years to get scans and where 5 hours in the waiting room is considered good? The budget is at it, but legislations like the ones mentionned in the article above coupled with horrible ressource management result with an horrible product to the end user.

When I got the papers from the CEGEP this week, a few days after my much-anticipated admission, I was rather surprised my laptop didn’t cut it and I needed to replace it. Seeing a new hole in my already tight budget, I quickly resorted to looking for scholarships to apply to, as my father seemed reluctant to the idea of financially helping me.

It turns out one of the main factors used to determine who gets scholarships and who doesn’t is the parent’s salary. What they seem to forget is that not every parent will go to extreme lengths to help their children’s education, no matter what their income is. My school pushed the envelope as far as considering the stepparents’ salaries in the count, as if it was common for them to help children that are not theirs.

I might just be bragging, but this seems like a quite obvious flaw to me.

An interesting english project we had. What’s even more interesting is the numbers. Graphic designers, settle down! I know the design’s uneven

Deficit?

If you havn’t already seen it, the CRTC is about to allow the telecom companies to mess with net neutrality. I normally don’t use this website to convey such messages, but it is our internet freedom that is threatened by the same commission that keeps voting against the ones it is supposed to defend since its creation.

Canadian people, let’s be heard!

You can hear about it here and sign the petition here.

Did you know that in Canada it is illegal to pay a sum over 25 cents with only cents? It’s in the Currency Act of Canada!