Much to be grateful for
| I would like to express appreciation to all those who helped me recover from a serious leg injury that I experienced in June. Dr. Joshua Wong and all the other doctors and nurses that completed a skin graft on my leg were simply amazing. First I would like to thank the doctors and nurses at the downtown Medicentre who cleaned and dressed my wound for two weeks. They referred me do a wound clinic at the Royal Alex Hospital where Dr Daniel Shafran sent me to Dr Joshua Wong a plastic surgeon. I also was treated at the Royal Alex Emergency Ward. Next, I was cared for by many home care nurses at the Northeast Community Health Clinic both before and after my operation. The skin graft operation took palace at Misericordia Hospital. I would like to thank Doctor Wong’s team of doctors and nurses for completing a successful skin graft with a very short waiting time. The nurses and aides on 5 East General Surgery took very good care of me. I also want to also express my thanks to my wife /”nurse” Wai-Ling for changing my dressings many days and being so caring and to my family. Joe Lennon |
Combatting organized crime
| STOP CAR THEFTS! Why not really check the ocean carriers before transportation to find out how many cars are in each of these carriers. How else do the cars get smuggled overseas if not by carriers on boats? That’s the only way they can ship stolen vehicles abroad…not by plane, not by small boats…and maybe by rafts. Maybe a better check of this might prevent these thefts. Is it too difficult to inspect these before export…. you can check trucks but not boats? David Barrick Burlington, Ontario |
His Eternal Love
| The road seemed long Troubles deep My steps were slow As fear did creep Wind was howling The cold did bite When Death came growling I craved the Light Memories appeased The fear I felt That slowly eased As I stopped and knelt Lips cried out to God above To feel the warmth of Eternal Love The touch of an angel’s hand Lifted to a healing land Where the sun does shine The wind has ceased His love is mine Joy increased My head I raised With lips to sing A song to praise This wondrous thing A heart filled with Eternal Love Sent from Heaven on His dove My mind is free I shall not die Soul with glee I scan the sky To see the angel slowly rise Back to God to bring my prize His love is deep The night is here Drift to sleep Without the fear When I wake to God above My thanks I pray for Eternal Love His Son does shine Love released Joy is mine My soul increased Heart filled with Eternal Love Sends a prayer on His dove To bring my kiss to God above Chris Jour |
If I were God
| If I were God What would I be? Would I not be the universe? Yet the universe would not be me. Would the universe not be The least that I could be? Would I not have smiled To watch the dust and gases coalesce, To become galaxies, stars and planets. To watch the icy comets Crash into the earth and make open water. To reach out my hand and give The spark of life that animates The molecules and atoms that all Living things are made of. Would I not have laughed To watch the great whales frolic In the ocean? Would I not have felt anguish To watch them be hunted almost To extinction? Would I not have wept To see humanity kill itself By the millions? Dennis Kean |
Why must the children cry?
| Falling Bombs and Falling Tears A little boy cries because his father dies and his heart keeps pounding like the bombs. A little girl cries because her brother dies and her tears keep falling like the bombs. Why-oh-why must the children cry? Why must their tears keep falling like the bombs? To help them all the Universal Declaration of Human Rights must never grow old, never erode, never melt, shrink or fade, it must not fail, it must prevail, it must stand the test of time. It was adopted in Paris on 10 December 1948. Since then it has paved the way for the adoption of more than 70 human rights treaties and it is now accessible in 531 languages and dialects. Article 1 of its 30 articles states: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” In Israel, in Palestine, and in many other parts of the world, the tears have been falling like bombs for far too long. Whenever and wherever leaders fail to fix the broken parts in the workings of the world, we must demand change, organize and lobby and fight tirelessly to give voice to the voiceless and bring peace. If the world will respect and follow the wisdom of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the bombs can stop falling and our future can be the best that it can be. Robert Hicks |
Liberal Government Hypocrisy?
| Minister Fraser plays Jekyll and Hyde. Former Immigration Minister and newly minted Housing Minister Sean Fraser has been scathing in his critiques of the mismanagement of the International Student Program mulling over the need to cap the number of students permitted to enter Canada to study. His concern arises from complaints that after students are being allowed in the Country they have no place to live. “Unacceptable” says Minister Fraser…how could this have happened? What defies logic is Mr. Fraser’s short term memory. The Liberal Government and the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration are responsible. The decision to bring in more students rested solely with the Minister himself. Official data shows Active Visas in Canada reached over 800,000 in 2022, triple the number in 2012 of 275,000. Mr. Fraser seems to forget he was the Minister of Immigration who allowed this increase. As a citizen of his Constituency, living in Antigonish, NS, home to St. F. X. University, I have seen the struggle faced by students and other residents seeking affordable housing in our Town. Mr. Fraser contributed to this failed, ill thought out Liberal Policy. Someone needs to track down the Honourable Minister who ran the program and point out the obvious inconsistency and hypocrisy in his words and deeds. Mr. Fraser’s parting words at the end of the Liberal First Minister’s Meeting in PEI was “A plan of some sort could be coming shortly.” If these words were spoken to bolster confidence in the Liberal Government then Mr. Fraser has missed the mark again. Pay attention to his words, “A Plan of some sort” and “could” indicates they do not have a plan. Alena Wilgenhof President, Central Nova CPC |
Trudeau picking our pockets ?
| TAX TAX TAX and more TAX. That is where we are now at. No money left over to buy ANYTHING. This means all businesses will be going out of business. We are paying tax on every last thing we do, or used to do. 57 cents on a liter of gas. That is theft, it’s our gas, we the people own it, but we have no say. The city has gone mad with the foolish things they do. Spending money they don’t have. Just raise taxes and now carbon tax, every where you turn. Someone better do something fast because this is far more destructive than climate change ever will be. Another foolish expense which has made exactly no difference at all in climate change and it never will. Climate change is here to stay period. We have to live with it. That is a fact. We were never poor before, but we are getting there fast….Real fast. John Alfred |
Canada burning while government fiddles?
| I’m a senior retired Airforce veteran. I’m bewildered as to Canada having so many forest fires in the last 10 years that we still hire other countries to supply water bombers that WE BUILD in Canada. I think it would be a wise and cost- effective investment for Canada to have two squadrons of 6 aircraft each stationed in eastern and western Canada. It’s imperative that a forest fire is extinguished quickly before it spreads. The water bomber of choice is the Canadair CL415. These aircraft could have a multi role capability such as fire- fighting – coastal patrol – coast guard and search & rescue. I send this message as a seed for getting something done that Canada desperately needs. I would like your thoughts on this idea. I’m sending you this message in hope that you would produce an article that would interest your readers and that they in turn would talk to their MP’s. This in turn could help all Canadians by helping us get us some cost effective forest fighting ability for all provinces by the federal government. For your consideration. Maurice Palahicky |