There’s a certain cruelty in finding a message on your telephone answering machine when you get home on a Friday evening after a particularly odd day’s business from the receptionist at your family doctor’s office, especially when she has stammered her way through the message that they’ve received some test results and, if there has been no follow up from your oncologist, the doctor would like to see you in his office. It’s a Friday. End of business. Not open again until Monday. No way to get in touch with her to ask for clarification, to ask which results from … Continue reading Medical Receptionists, please take note.

At approximately 0800 on February 4, 2010 doctors will be taking a twenty-four year old woman of east Indian descent off life support. Her parents have arrived from Toronto, her brother from Calgary. This lovely young woman, one of our acquaintances, has no brain activity; her kidneys failed her, her lungs stopped functioning effectively, and then her heart stopped. At this time they haven’t told anyone what is responsible, but the chatter going around is that it started off with a bout of H1N1. There will likely be an autopsy… H1N1 kills.Get your damned shots. Continue reading Hey, you! Get your H1N1 flu shot… stop being a dink about it!

In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake a group of ten fundamentalist Baptist American do-gooders snuck across the border from the Dominican Republican, convinced temporary and permanent caregivers (including the parents!) of 33 Haitian children to allow the children to be loaded onto a bus and driven out of Haiti. The caregivers, and even the children believed that they were going off to ‘summer camp’ or to ‘boarding school’… based on flyers/leaflets that the team of ten were passing out. But also within their possession where other flyers that detailed their goal to remove 100 children from Haiti and take … Continue reading Americans kidnapping Haitian children?