Opinion

Universal health care, as it is provided now in Canada, is unsustainable if we consider the changing demographics of baby boomers becoming a tsunami of seniors.

It’s time, my friends, to have a frank talk. It’s time for conservatives to take a long, hard, look at certain issues.

In 1976, a fictitious, outraged TV news anchor Howard Beale, at wits end over the lawlessness in the United States and the disregard for human order, launched a diatribe in his broadcast encouraging viewers to swing open their windows and scream: “I am mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

The people who lined up to criticize health-care changes for seniors have done an excellent job of organizing, research and public education.

While reading Chapter 1 of The Psychology of Women I was struck by the vast array of diversity within the psychology of women – white women, black women, lesbian black women, lesbian Mexicana handicapped Jewish women, Asian academic unmarried single mother women, and so on.

I admit that I spent some time on the weekend preparing an emergency kit in the event disaster strikes — perhaps in the form of a full-fledged pandemic.

Even casual observers of the justice system know that drugs are at the root of the vast majority of court cases.

“I don’t look like Halle Berry,” said Whoopie Goldberg in a recent interview. “But chances are, she’s going to end up looking like me.”

My dying mother waited in vain for the phone call from her adult grandchildren.They’d been part of a tangled, acrimonious divorce years earlier, yet they had kept a warm place in their hearts for my mom, until the end.

To the Alberta government, for even considering opening up a hunting season for the magnificent sandhill cranes.