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Re: Commission hears grim LTC story, March 2.
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Minister of Long-term Care Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, a family physician, said she didn’t want to overstep her expertise. That’s unfortunate, but not surprising. She is a member of a hierarchical, patronal profession.
As a minister, she has been working in a system dominated by one person, a man, where sycophancy is expected, as in some other Canadian jurisdictions. An important job of members of the cabinet appears to be to provide a backdrop to a premier at the podium.
One of the first memories I have of feeling viscerally annoyed by racist bigotry during my time in Italy was when I found out the term
Zulu was popularly held to mean “uncivilised” in quotidian Italian parlance. I had arrived on a scholarship to study at the United World College of the Adriatic. This is where I first encountered and learnt to sing baroque madrigals. Upon arrival, one of my first acquisitions was a copy of
Dizionario Garzanti Della Lingua Italiana. Written there, in stark black-and-white, on the final page of that tome was the entry: “
Zulu,
agg. persona rozza e ignorante” (“a rough and ignorant person”).
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A regular weekly look-back at some offbeat or interesting stories that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen over its 175-year history. Today, amazing acrobatics:
On Sept. 9, 1864, The Great Farini, one of the world’s most accomplished acrobats, amazed Ottawa and Hull residents as he crossed the dangerous Chaudière Falls on a tightrope, blindfolded, in a sack and with baskets on his feet.
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Signor Guillermo Farini was, in fact, 25-year-old Port Hope, Ont. native William Hunt, and two performances were scheduled for that Friday, at 3 and 9 p.m.