A child obesity epidemic is flourishing in Canada. Between 1978 and 2004 there was an increase of overweight children from twelve to eighteen percent of the population and even more shocking, obese children increased from three to eight percent. One in four Canadian children is overweight and obese. Increased reliance on television, video games and Continue Reading
Albert Einstein for many years before his death, had been working on a “Unified Theory of Physics”. He tried to develop a mathematical formula to predict the relationship in nature between all forms of matter and energy, such as light, mass ,gravity, electrons etc. He did not succeed, nor have any scientists who followed him Continue Reading
A major event occurred last summer in Sudbury. For the first time in Ontario a clinic to provide medical care was organized and is led by “Registered Nurses in the Extended Class” or commonly now known as Nurse Practitioners (NPs). Doctors are consulted as required, and in the clinic in Sudbury are present 14-15 hours Continue Reading
The players in the health care system are the politicians, the public, the health care professions, and the companies that provide the ancillary services that allow the system to operate. The PoliticiansThe politicians are interested first and foremost in getting re-elected They start every project with the best of intentions but after they have consulted Continue Reading
All sport fans crave a winner. If they are New York Yankee baseball fans they expect a world series spot nearly every year. Canadian tennis fans are more patient, much more patient, but I think their patience is coming to a justifiable end. I have been playing and watching tennis for over 50 years and Continue Reading
So! A spry eighty-year-old, still driving her car, checks out the parking spaces near her local post office and finds none available, at least not within reasonable walking distance. She pulls into a space just next to the legal parking area and walks into the post office to mail a registered letter. Three minutes later Continue Reading