Letters from our readers. Today's topics: the housing crisis, the family doctor shortage and those Dallas Road dog park changes
When all else fails, let’s try talking I’m irritated about everything. The recent news seems to be concentrated on our medical workers, our bicycle lanes and lack of student and affordable housing.
I am just another annoying person who lived in rented rooms and apartments for years until I could pay my mortgage by doing three jobs. In addition to this, my Old Age Security increased by 2.8% for this July to September quarter. My husband, who is over 75, received an additional 10% increase. The fact that these workers have to strike to make their positions clear is the fault of the government, not the workers. Our workers need to make enough money to lead healthy lives, so that we can too.Students need housing, offices need tenants The letter suggesting housing students in vacant office space was brilliant.
What the government needs to do is to create a public service agency to run family practice clinics for doctors and let the physicians provide expertise in the medical profession, which they excel at, and the government agency to provide clinical operation and administration. No matter which payment model is adopted, there will only be 24 hours in a day and money cannot buy more time. It is time to think “outside the box” for both government and Doctors of B.C. and attract more family practitioner physicians with better work/life balance and less burnout.About those Dallas Road dog park downgrades Recently signage was posted at the Dallas Road dog park informing people of dogs being banned from the current pedestrian path and a fence installation.
Being forced away from tree coverage, dogs will lose shade to play and rest in during hot days. Furthermore, the city has done nothing to control the known issue of speargrass in the park. If men and women stopped drinking alcohol, ate better and then only as much as they require, the health-care system would have a surplus of doctors. We live on a quarter of what we eat, doctors make their living on the rest.
Night after night through the first half of 1945, the U.S. Air Force poured hell onto Japan, killing more than one million people inhabiting what American strategists already in 1936 had identified as Japan’s highly vulnerable “wood and paper” cities. Cambridge University has decided to no longer accept donations of any kind from the fossil fuel industry. Many institutions across the globe and in our own country have divested from the fossil fuel industry in their pension plans. However, much more needs to be done.
Would our governments not do better just to stop the subsidies and corporate handouts and direct more money to our colleges and universities?Find another spot for homeless camps Why do we allow the homeless to squat anywhere they please on very expensive retail business storefronts? There are plenty of organizations that will travel to this location and provide food, clothing, etc. Allowing these people to destroy the downtown is insanity.I live for today — so am I a bad human? This letter is bound to get some negative reactions, but I can no longer keep my secret regarding the environment and its pseudo-stewards trying to profit from interfering in everybody’s affairs.
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