Malcolm Hughes

For TN: But the point is, at least for those who made the choices as they did, a place like Okotoks IS rural. I can give you the example of one who turned down a position in Brandon Manitoba as opposed to Winnipeg as it was RURAL and didn't have the amenities with which the person had grown up.

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I was unable to vote because there was no appropriate choice for me. I have a great Family Doctor. Fortunately, I have had access to one throughout my 58 years here in three Canadian Provinces (as well as my previous 29 in UK). I welcome the arrival of doctors into the Community for those who do not enjoy that comfort and it clearly does impact me as a member of this community. With the assumption that they are professionally qualified, their origins are meaningless: they are Medical Doctors.
If our Medical Faculties are not producing enough qualified people (I am aware of the time that takes to catch up), then to look elsewhere makes absolute sense.
In my own profession, I came across quite a few graduates whom I would have wished to hire, but they were often reluctant to leave the City. I became aware of some who actually refused a permanent "rural" position, preferring to "sub" or more than once, work at anything so that they could stay in the City. 5 University years thrown away.

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This is absolutely unacceptable behaviour - anywhere - period. Sadly we are hearing foul language on the street as well as at events like a hockey game and as the writer suggests, it should bring with it a real and concrete consequence. It should be dealt with and those who perform in this manner - hooliganism would seem to describe it - should be publicly called out and made public. Personal rights and privacy is lost. They were abandoned when bounds were crossed.
Sadly again, we are expected to accept / ignore this sort of thing all too frequently. It appears that today, there are no consequences for what was formerly unacceptable conduct.

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So we take an article on Dis-and Misinformation, caption with a visual misty/foggy view beyond a bunch of vehicles and promote Climate Change with a visual meant to suggest smog.
No Mis- or Disinformation here huh??

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However, "strong federal leadership" and "Prime Minister Trudeau" is the ultimate oxymoron. They are a contradiction beyond understanding or measure.

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I simply (and always) slow down for them and (occasionally) use my "hazards" for them.

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Does anyone remember the "artificial line" drawn between two countries in Europe identifying the Sudetenland? Didn't go too well did it?

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While my original comment reflected only the "political correctness" of current ideology here, I am equally frustrated/angered by the "discourse" emanating from the other extreme of political and religious dogma. It has no place in any "civil" society because it, too, generates an antagonism to the very concepts which they pretend to support and of which we should be at least accepting even if we do not practice them.

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And so says everyone who is not offended by everything that does not appear in the left-wing ideological dictionary of acceptable phraseology.
Over the years, both in England and here in Canada for the past 55+ years, I worked with and supervised personnel from many parts of the world. At no time did they ever express any objection to the traditional Christmas Greeting just as I did not object to greetings from their "home based" cultures. We respected each others' history and traditions but of late, with our current trends to slavish political correctness, any and every mention of anything that is remotely related to white, or Anglo-Saxon or even "Caucasian" is of necessity evil or sexist and racist.

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Being afflicted by the same syndrome, though now well past a working life, I become entangled in that web and am thankful that it did not exist during my time as a teacher/principal etc. Still, however, I become lost and in short order lose the rationale for being there in the first place, ending up frustrated by a waste of further time from my retired days.

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