🇨🇦 In Manitoba, palliative care starts after you call a politician

A 70-year-old woman with Stage 4 cancer lay 20 hours on a hallway gurney in Winnipeg, and only moved after her daughter called Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara. That is not a health system. That is a patronage hotline with IV bags. The family was told the wait to see a doctor could run 21 to 24 hours, while the ER was packed with chaos, withdrawals, yelling, and spit flying at nurses, as reported.

Then comes the usual regime excuse: these problems did not happen overnight. Right, because Canada has spent years importing population growth faster than housing, hospitals, and staffing can absorb it, while provincial and federal managers clap for diversity decks and photo ops. Ordinary Canadians fund the system, then learn access depends on who can reach a minister’s office first. This is what managed decline looks like in a country run for headlines, not citizens.

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