Some background reading for the conversations today on the Daily Brief: Airing 6 pm ET/3 pm PT and again at 11 pm ET/8 pm PT on Sun News Network. (Find it in your dial by clicking here)
Canada’s Healthcare system
- Fraser Institute: Canada’s Medicare Bubble: Is Government Health Spending Sustainable without User-based Funding?
- Fraser Institute: Mark Rovere
- Keith Martin: “A Prescription for Emergency Room Overcrowding”
- Keith Martin: “Election 2011 Needs a Serious Debate on Health Care Reform”
- Wiki: Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States
Insite
B.C. Politics
- Dix elected as B.C. NDP Leader
- Vaughn Palmer: Who is the most electable of the NDP candidates? Odds favour Farnworth
The U.S. Budget Battle
- ‘Gang of Six’ in Senate Seeking a Plan on Debt
- Doug Saunders: Abolishing Corporate Tax is a Progessive Cause
- Walter Mondale: As in 1984, we need the courage to raise taxes
- BMO Capital Markets Economics: S&P Warning Could Be a Good Thing [PDF]
- David Frum is the publisher of FrumForum
Libya
- NATO Operational Update for April 17, 2011
- Spokesman: Horris in Misrata grows with fresh shelling, little aid
- Libyan Forces Pounds Misrata: 1,000 Evacuated by Sea
Brief Word
Please don’t do what the other channels are doing. Have your producer do something different for a change.
It is extremely nauseating to see repeatedly, over and over and over and over and over again, the same video news clip on the same new item. It’s enough to make a person change channels. I saw enough of the syringe being filled, the needle being unpackaged, the operating room being moved around, the Toyota speeding past in Libya, to last me a lifetime.
I’m begging you to have your producer make up video clips in excess of the possible time period of the broadcast. If the item lasts 10 mins., make up 15 mins. of video clips, etc. etc.
I really enjoyed the broadcast last evening with the exception of the above and wish you nothing but the best over the coming years.
Thanks
Ted Smith
Russell, ON