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Every day we read about the serious shortage of hospital space in today’s Ottawa. And now another expansion is planned. What is the real cause of today’s hospital room shortages?
It is because of decisions during the 1990s by some bright-minded politicians to close several hospitals in Ottawa and other cities. And as usual, politicians are never, ever accountable for making wrong decisions.
During the 1990s, Ontario’s Health Services Restructuring Commission wanted three of Ottawa’s hospitals closed. Those were the Riverside Hospital, the Salvation Army Grace Hospital and the Montfort Hospital. (Also closed in Ottawa is the military hospital on Alta Vista Avenue.)
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Re: The quiet power behind the throne, April 10.
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The âquietâ leadership; the âquietâ power behind the throne. Of course, this refers to Prince Phillip. And here we were, thinking that it was Queen Elizabeth who was running this show for the past 69 years.
Please give Prince Phillip his due, but no need to hyperbolize that he was somehow the strength or power behind the monarchy.  Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and  Commonwealth for almost 70 years, is her own strength and power/ Prince Phillip fulfilled his role, as was his duty.
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A naive American actress, a disgruntled prince, and a few chickens aren’t going to bring down a 1,200-year-old institution, but what has boiled to the surface is a conversation concerning the modern purpose of the monarchy.
Throwing the proverbial baby out with the proverbial bathwater is a short- term, knee-jerk reaction. Any institution is only as good as its people. That fact might be the current monarchy’s problem.
If every royal were like the Queen, there wouldn’t be a problem, but the Queen won’t be around forever. How to you follow an act like Queen Elizabeth? Many might not want to. Sequels don’t always work, and that could be the insurmountable obstacle.
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We are winter people, ice people, nice people. There is only one dominant season for Canadians, the one that defines us (whether we like it or not). Cold. Clear, icicle cold. The season that extinguishes all others. The one season that enters Canadian conversations all year long (even in 40 C weather). Only a Canadian would talk about winter on a scorching hot, humid summer’s day. It snows in a Canadian’s mind all year long, little white flurries of brain activity. Winter is not simply a season, it’s a state of mind. A state of being. A frozen Canadian, suspended in disbelief for a period of anywhere up to six (or is that sick?) months