Monday, November 30, 2015

First, horseless carriages; soon, paperless newspapers

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Recently a fellow told me newspapers are dead. He was quite adamant. No one reads newspapers anymore, he said. He was, of course, overstatin...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Music of Boomer Generation not simply pop-rock

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I find it odd that baby boomers neither wrote nor performed the early music so linked to their generation. If the music of a generation is t...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

TODs are not new

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Kidlets production of Squirm Monday I took my granddaughter to Covent Garden Market where the Original Kids Theatre Company is located...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Canadian health care may not be as poor as the CBC would have you believe

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This morning Heather Hiscox used a story about a B.C. man who has been unable to find a surgeon to operate on his pineal gland as her progra...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers: Good or bad idea?

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Are mandatory flu shots for nurses and other health-care workers a good or bad idea? The answer depends on the newspaper article and the rep...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Seniors are not embracing downtown living en masse

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How truthiness is spread by the media. Image edited in Photoshop. There is a myth, almost an urban legend, that aging baby boomers in...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

The United States is not healthcare nirvana.

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A recent newspaper story introduced a young girl with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome to tens of thousands of readers across Ontario and possibly Ca...