Sandra Azocar, the executive director of Friends of Medicare, joins us to analyze and breakdown Jason Kenney's new COVID restrictions as well as a recently passed bill that allows private, for-profit plasma farming operations to be set up in Alberta. 

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Links:

• What Is the Blood of a Poor Person Worth?
• A push in Alberta for “pay for plasma” distracts from bigger questions
• The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma
• Pay-for-plasma lobbyists showing up in lobbying registry
• With passing of Bill 204, UCP ideology reigns over science & evidence
• Blood Plasma and Poverty: Where Do Plasma Donation Centers Locate?
• Why Thousands of Low-Income Americans 'Donate' Their Blood Plasma to For-Profit Centers