Archive - Dec 22, 2008

Doctors serving Sioux Lookout Region First Nations highlighted in CBC radio program

From CBC's White Coat, Black Art web site

Sioux Lookout Family Practice Zone

Posted by White Coat, Black Art on December 20 at 06:00 PM

On the very first episode of White Coat, Black Art, we explored the growing problem of physicians who cherry pick the easiest patients, and leave the complex ones as 'orphan' patients. No where is the problem of orphan patients more acute than in Canada's far north.

"The $15 billion broadband bonus" - a paper on the strategic investment in fibre infrastructure

From Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE

Here is a good paper referenced in the Cook Report that demonstrates the impact of broadband on GDP. While most other studiesĀ  have done a lot of waving about the impact of broadband, this paper is the most analytical I have seen in some time.