Whenever Jews congregate in any numbers, occasionally the talk turns to anti-semitism and the plight of Jews throughout the world. Inevitably someone uses the phrase “Zi Svere tzu Zan a Yid” which translated into English means “it is tough to be a Jew”. As a seventy-four year old native-born Canadian living in a friendly, peaceful Continue Reading
In a proposal contained in a letter of understanding between the Ontario Medical Association. and the Minister of Health, George Smitherman, an agreement was reached that if doctors could lower the cost of prescribed medicine in the Ontario Drug Benefit Program by two hundred million dollars, fifty million would be made available for extra physicians’ Continue Reading
It was Winston Churchill, the renowned wartime Prime Minister of England, who stated “Democracy is a terrible system, but it is the best there is”. In the field of health care the inadequacy of the democratic system is very apparent. Politicians will not make the decisions to repair a badly flawed system because they are Continue Reading
As a retired pharmacist and a 73 year-old senior, I take more than a cursory interest in the present state of Canada’s health care system and the plans for making the system function better. I have yet to see any useful information made public to indicate the extent of the debate to be addressed in Continue Reading
There is a verbal and written battle in the media and the lecture circuit. Most of the public is unaware of it. To be quite frank, most people would be at a loss to make sense of the complicated verbiage and the convoluted arguments. The battle pits scientists, professors, scholars, philosophers and theologians against each Continue Reading