Talk:Dr. Stephen Duckett

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Holy smokes. I'm surprised how long this went under our radar. This is not a "TV Mention" and not relevant at all. I'm parking the text here just so it will be clear why this was deleted, but someone mentioning cookies, and some articles later using the phrase "Cookie Monster" does *not* merit coverage here.

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Dr. Stephen Duckett was the Australia-born economist and health services manager who was the President and CEO of Alberta Health Services, a quasi-independent agency of the government to run their healthcare system. After a high-level meeting, he avoided talking to the media, excusing himself to slowly eat a cookie. The video went viral in Canada, on the station's YouTube channel, and on other news programs. Among the quotes: "I'm eating my cookie -- can't you see I'm eating my cookie!"

He was later fired by the agency. This created a backlash amongst board members, with two resigning, and more threatening to do so. The media and public dubbed him "Cookie Monster". The term was used as broadly as Australia's The Age, RTL in the Netherlands.