All Entries in the "Letters and Opinion" Category
Sustainability of what?
By sponsoring Dick Hill’s “Inventing Victims” article in a recent newspaper article, the County Sustainability Group (CSG) indirectly supports the sustainability of a sinister alliance that is relentlessly destroying the Ontario countryside. That alliance is a virtual coalition between the wind-worshipping Ontario government and the heavily-subsidized Canadian Wind Industry. That alliance should not be sustained […]
Threat of wind turbines put my way of life under siege
It was one year ago today that I sent my first e-mail to a group to explain why I had suddenly become an outspoken advocate against “green” energy as the Ontario government is delivering it. If you know me at all, you know that I am a person who holds strong opinions but generally doesn’t […]
QHC has more than its fair share of high earners
Letters and Opinion Ontario’s Public Sector Salary Disclosure List (Sunshine List) is out. QHC, with 205 beds, has 61 staff earning more than $100,000 in 2012. To put this number in perspective, in 2004 there were seven on the list. This is a ninefold increase in nine years. Last week, Rick Conroy, of the Wellington […]
User-pay plans for vital health services should be subject to public debate
Open Letter Deb Matthews Minister of Health and Long-Term Care 10th Floor, Hepburn Block 80 Grosvenor Street, Toronto, ON M7A 2C4 Dear Minister Deb Matthews: Recently, you released the final recommendations of Ontario’s Seniors’ Strategy. Included in the strategy is a plan to have seniors pay user fees for home care services, based on their […]
Help our hospitals in the fight of their lives
Both Prince Edward County Memorial and Trenton Memorial hospitals are in the fight of their lives to save their few remaining services. Last week the Trentonian reported that 11 doctors, including several emergency room physicians fom Belleville General met with officials of the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation at the hospital. QHC administration was not invited. […]
Concerned County should fill 10 buses to Queen’s Park
I am sharing the Ontario Health Coalition’s mission and mandate statements so that we may all have a better understanding of who they are. As a member, I certainly appreciate their tireless efforts in helping communities like ours improve or save their healthcare services. In the last seven years executive director Natalie Mehra and her […]
No to fishing, yes to turbines
No to a few fishing cabins—Yes to giant IWT’s—Does this make sense? Peter Kent the Environment Ministry for the Federal Government states in the County Weekly News that his, “federal department has a duty to keep commercial enterprises off Crown Land.” He also stated that commercial use of national wildlife area is not ordinarily permitted. […]
Appeal of wind projects seeks donations
The County appeal of the Ostrander Point wind project is under way. But we need your help. The recent approval of the industrial wind turbine project by Gilead Power Corporation on Crown-owned Land at Ostrander Point and the subsequent legal appeals to an Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) have been reported in both local and regional […]
What’s good for our hospital is good for the province
Recently Dave Gray has persuaded a lot of people that we should rally at Queen’s Park and get high-level government attention to plans for our hospital. The rally is to be on Wednesday, April 17th. Here’s the background: in 1998 a Conservative “Common Sense” government forced Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital to come under administration […]
Meet in Wellington Wednesday if you can help plan bus trip to Queen’s Park
One of our great Canadian values is to look after one another. Our grandparents saw that need and built Prince Edward Memorial Hospital to look after the people of Prince Edward County. The people of the County have, over the years, supported our hospital and that Canadian value. We will look after each other. We […]
