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Items from the Quarterly Publication  Ontario Division February 2008 Vol 34, Issue 1. Regular issues of CPC Viewpoint are published February, May, September, and November. Editor: Dorothy Archer Layout: Margaret (Peggy) Gunhouse Editorial Board: Christine Mounsteven, Don Bellamy Sylvia Hall, Gerda Kaegi,Joan Berndt |
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PRE-BUDGET PLANNING The Economic Concerns Committee, CPC, Ontario Division, submitted a statement on pre-budget planning to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs of the Legislative Assembly in January 2008.Subjects covered were poverty, education and training, economic growth and productivity, and infrastructure. To receive a copy of this document, contact CPC, 6 Trinity Square, Toronto, M5G 1B1, telephone 416-368-5222, toll free 1-888-822-6750 HEADLINES ANNOUNCING God is angry. He decides to end the world before the weekend. He leaks the news to four Toronto newspapers. They report: Toronto Sun: "You're gone." God. Financial Post. World ends Friday, markets to close early. Toronto Star. World ends Friday. Women, minorities victimized. |
"One of my favourite pastimes used to be driving out to the airport to watch airplanes take off and land. So when I first became aware of a strange noise in my right ear I didn't pay much attention to it; it sounded like an airplane.......
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A TIME FOR ACTION
CPC Ontario Division and CPC National have been engaged with a number of consumer groups in efforts to bring down the cost of prescription drugs in Canada. The battle goes back to the days when Prime Minister Brian Mulroney changed the patent legislation as it pertained to prescription drugs by extending patent protection. ......
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A PANDEMIC PROJECT
As the population ages, a greater number of elderly persons will need assistance to remain independent, especially in times of crises. In November 2007, as a member of the Board of Canadian Pensioners Concerned (CPC), I was asked to participate in a pilot pandemic exercise directed toward the frail and vulnerable..........
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Commentary
THOUGHTS OF A
CANADIAN PENSIONER CONCERNED...AT 80
On September 13, 2007, I celebrated my 80th birthday. The date of my birth is certainly unremark-able in the history of this country or that of humanity, however, the 13th day of September, 1750 has significance in the history of Canada - long before my birth......
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BOOK REVIEW DYING FOR A HOME HOMELESS ACTIVISTS SPEAK OUT by Cathy Crowe and others Between the Lines, 2007 Ten homeless people tell their own stories in this book and describe their activities to gain affordable housing. The narrators don't hide any transgressions they might have committed or make excuses for themselves. Their tone is not maudlin. They just tell it like it is........... Read more here.... |
THE SPICE OF LIFE
I have been asked, "What do grandparents get out of hockey"? The answer is simple - we get a lot out of it. The other day while walking into the school to pick up my grandson, I came around the corner of the school and one voice interrupted a group of boys playing with a soccer ball, calling out, "Here comes a Hockey Grandpa", ........
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OUR SENIOR "PRISONERS"
A recent Toronto Sun cover story and a publisher's letter written by Kathryn M. Lymburne in Senior Care Canada have spurred me to write this letter expressing my outrage and shock at the tremendous disparity between meal budgets for prisoners in our detention centres, jails and prisons versus the budget for patients in our long-term care facilities.........
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REPORT OF STUDY ON AGE-RELATED VISION LOSS
Canadian Pensioners Concerned, Ontario Division, participated in a three-year project which was initiated by CNIB (Archives: see Viewpoint, February 2006). The report of the completed project titled You and Your Vision Health......
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REVISIONING PUBLIC HEALTH CARE
Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) Conference
For well over a decade provincial health policy has been focused on reducing the size of hospitals. Hospitals have been seen as too expensive or as dehumanizing institutions. This session attempted to develop another analysis and another approach......
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BOARD HIGHLIGHTS Meeting October 15, 2007 Meeting November 19, 2007 Meeting December 17, 2007 WE GET LETTERS …
CRUISE CONTROL CAUTION Never use the cruise control when the pavement is wet or icy. If the cruise control is on and your car begins to hydroplane - when your tires lose contact with the pavement - your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and you will take off like an airplane. You have little or no control over a car when it begins to hydroplane, said a highway patrolman. Excerpted from The Yukon Senior, March 2007 |