The Rewrite

The Rewrite

Tens of thousands are dying on waiting lists following decades of media reluctance to debate healthcare

Plus! More unnecessary online smartassery taints the craft and “sources say” stories continue to be all the rage

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Peter Menzies
Nov 23, 2025
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About the same time as William Watson’s outstanding book Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life was being published in the late 1990s, the newspaper I worked for was sending a journalist to Europe to research a series of articles on how health care systems work in some of those countries.

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