Unpublished Newswire

When you introduce a new policy, there are two key questions that need to be asked, and answered: 1) What is the problem you’re trying to solve? and; 2) will the new policy solve it? Alberta plans to introduce legislation that would allow some doctors to practise simultaneously in the public and private health systems.Specifically, surgeons will be allowed to do some elective procedures like cataracts, and hip and knee replacements, and be paid either by public insurance, private insurance or out-of-pocket.

This is an edited excerpt from Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War Against Canada. The author, Dennis Molinaro, is a former national security analyst and policy adviser for the Canadian federal government. In mid-century British Columbia, student politics were frequently occupied with the issue of Japanese imperialism, particularly as China came under attack by Japan. Among the most vocal of stu­dents was Paul Lin, a child of Chinese immigrants who came to Canada in the late 1880s. He grew up in B.C. and travelled to the U.S. to study engineering, but...