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WE ASKED Should speed limits on B.C. highways be increased?
Re: Photo: The man with the $10,000 swing: “Awesome. It’s always nice to see the good guy winning.” — posted by David Wharrie
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YES 46% NO 54%
Re: Story: Two men stabbed on Campbell Avenue: “Any person who calls 911 for another person is doing a good deed. “When banging on a stranger’s door at midnight, yelling over and over to let them in, no person out there would open their door right away without making sure it was safe to do so. “And police response sounded rather quick from initial call to arrival on scanner. “How many critics of the lady’s actions live on that street and opened their doors? “Everyone is quick to judge before facts are known. “Really, at that time of night, why were the two men trying to get away with stab wounds if their “friends” were around?” — posted by Jason Donchi
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NO BULL — HE’S BACK Soon to be in his new corral, the bull is back in Riverside Park. City of Kamloops parks and recreation staff Mike Winkel (left) and June Blake work to install split-rail fencing, bark mulch and landscaping to highlight the bovine statue after his brief escape earlier this year when work on Lansdowne Street impacted his perch in the park. Dave Eagles/KTW
Welcome to Canada’s no-care health system Editor: My 84-year-old mother informed me she received a letter from her doctor, advising her on a surgery date for a knee replacement in a few weeks. She was also told she would be sent home after eight hours to fend for herself. There is no longer post-operative care offered at Royal Inland Hospital — one must go home and make do on their own, regardless of whether they have someone to help them. This is the worst kind of care, essentially no care. How can we even call this a health-care system? It has deteriorated to being ranked around 35th in the world from a previous ranking in the top 10. At one time, Canada was ranked second. Not any more. Third World countries have better systems than ours. Cuba, for instance, is the health-care mecca of the Carribean, where all go to get good care. We are being abused by our system,
which decides to operate and send patients home with their poison (drugs) from Big Pharma, which makes more than a trillion dollars every year. According to sudies, pharmaceutical drugs and mistakes in hospitals are the third-leading cause of death in hospitals in Canada and the United States. Why isn’t something done about this? These are staggering numbers, a lot more worrisome than the so-called threat of terrorism constantly being rammed down our throats. It is becoming a known fact most “terror attacks” are inside jobs with government knowledge, designed to instill fear in the populace in order to control it. Our society is so broken in every way through corruption and lies, perhaps the people have just given up. They can’t really be that complacent, can they? People should be protesting in the streets about the state of our no-care
health system. Why isn’t there a cure for cancer after all the billions raised yearly for research? There is no money in cures. Nobody wants to do anything as long as they get their paycheque and don’t ruffle feathers. Are people really that dumbed-down and duped that no one seems to care about the state our world? No wonder our health care is a complete failure — it is just following suit with the rest of our systems. People should not “run for the cure” because there never will be a a cure. People should “run for the cause” because that is the real issue. We need to do our research. Our future, and our children’s future, depend on it.
Denise Powers Kamloops
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