The Issue

For certain we all have or had a mother. Whether she is with us now or not, she is the one that gave us life… or least that is where it began.  But then there are some, for various reasons, who have never met their moms. But, I believe Mother’s Day is the perfect...
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Privacy Awareness week runs from April 29 – May 5, which is a week about promoting awareness about privacy rights and responsibilities in the community. Privacy rights and privacy responsibilities are vast. Just two examples including understanding how we can protect our privacy rights as individuals, through to privacy responsibilities when handling the personal...
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Many PC members across Alberta were having political labor pains Monday night waiting for the polls to release the numbers of an election that even the best of political analysts seemingly found difficult to predict. It was an election that undoubtedly brought worry and anxiety to many Albertans, however, with the news that the...
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What a provincial campaign this has become with PC fingers pointing at those Wildrose candidates who apparently did not show up for some forums, to pastor/Edmonton-South West Wildrose Par ty candidate Allan Hunsperger getting his share of heat for writing a blog post last year on homosexuals, in which he spewed out his religious...
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With a provincial election on our heels, what can be more important than the issue of how the elected party will maintain our health care system? Sure, many of us are concerned about taxes, the environment and the rest… but without the best healthcare possible, nothing else will really matter.  For decades, Canada’s healthcare...
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I am working on another book, at least when distractions to that end are minimal. The title of the book is Everybody’s Friend. I wrote the condensed story in my book, Random Acts of Giving, however I am now ready to write the entire story. Everybody’s Friend is a tragic but true story of...
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When I read, hear or watch stories about the healthcare system in some other provinces, I am so grateful for the healthcare system we have here in Alberta. Yes, I know, most of us have one or two or maybe even more not-so-healthy experiences with the system. For sure, there is no perfect healthcare...
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On March 8, it was Women’s International Day. This is the day when there are celebrations of women’s economic, political and soci a l achievements through to celebrations which focus on respect, appreciation and love towards women. For a woman of my age, it caused me to also ponder on other aspects of women’s...
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Palliative care, the way I understand it, is a type of medical care that is geared towards treating the symptoms of pain that is often associated with those who have cancer or the frail elderly, but palliative care can and also include children who suffer with severe physical or emotional pain. Hospice Care as...
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Susan McClelland of CanadianLiving.com writes about adult bullying: “Adult bullying takes place at the park, in parent committees, and in kids’ sporting events; among people in volunteer and peer groups and even in families.” The Canada Safety Council defines adult bullying “as a grab for control by an insecure, inadequate person… an exercise of power through the humiliation of the target.” Further,...
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