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from the hospital last fall, I learned
what someone called “the best kept secret in town: Home Care and its
umbrella organization, Community Care Access Centres.”
I waited with trepidation for my first home care worker, Linda. A pleasant
woman, Linda put me at ease immediately except when she mentioned giving
me a bath.
I ought not to be so concerned; Community Care Access appears to have all
the supportive equipment to care for a patient in their own home ...
2/4/09 Read More
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The United States |
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now has a President who wants to rid
government of discord and backbiting; he wants a government in which
members are civil, even when disagreeing. He wants a government that
functions under ethical rules.
As a start, he has built a cabinet with men and women from all sides
of the political spectrum. He has picked them for their strengths and
for their experience. ...
1/28/09 Read More |
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Kincardine
Fred Kirby
April 8, 2009
Faster than
anyone could imagine, a new epoch has snatched us from our lethargy. For people
throughout the world, the golden coin has turned to dross. The challenge now is
nothing less than survival itself. Even those who ought to know better such as
professional associations are ignoring this crying need for change.
Like Bush and Harper, and now Obama, we are draining our resources as the
Russians did in the 1970’s, such as Baikal where a fishing paradise was turned
into a salt bed. Will this always be our burden? Like King Sisyphus are we
condemned eternally to roll the rock in Hades to the top of the hill only to
have it roll down again each time? Is this what our lack of moral conscience has
brought us?
We need to see the universe through new eyes as if from another planet. Until
then the rock, the cursed rock, will be always with us.
We could start with the medical system. To date, our major solution is to throw
money at the perceived problem. As our hospitals become crowded and nursing
homes overflow what then will be our answer? Can we honestly afford more
hospitals, build more nursing homes? Or do our policy writers have an answer? If
they do they should tell us.
We are not just on the road to hell but will soon arrive if we do not change our
ways.
“If democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism,
If government is to function, it must have dissent.”
-
Henry Steele Commager
Municipal Musings is a website primarily dedicated to municipal affairs:
the good,
the bad, and the ugly. The principal subject is the Municipality of
Kincardine,
Ontario, located on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron, 310 Km from Detroit
and 225 Km west of Toronto at the intersection of Highway 21 and 9.
The
heading ‘Kincardine’ gives you articles and comments on Kincardine.
‘Elsewhere’ takes you to issues in other municipalities as well as broader
political subjects.
Feedback
via the ‘contact’ button is welcome; your issues are my issues when they
include transparency, fairness, and justice.
The
column, Municipal Musings, appears weekly in the
Kincardine
Independent,
a small town newspaper that dares to be good and is read far and wide. The
column seeks fair practices and transparency in municipal council’s
activities and accountability by councillors and managers. Citizens
deserve nothing less.
Fred Kirby
“Local
government operates on a gentleman’s agreement that the officials won’t
tell how incompetent the Councillors are as long as the Councillors don’t
tell how idle the officials are.” - Yes,
Prime Minister
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an
assassination from ambush.
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and
undernourishment.”
(Robert Maynard Hutchins)
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