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Doctors: Staff shortages put babies, moms at risk

There are few medical emergencies as urgent as an acute obstetrical emergency. Minutes can be the difference between life and death, both for the mother and the infant.

 
 
 

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VIHA: Anesthetists' concerns are all about money

 
Despite the allegations made by some anesthetists, women should have no concerns about safely delivering their babies at Victoria General Hospital. Close to 3,000 children are safely born at VGH each year and the comments made by these doctors do nothing more than unnecessarily alarm women that their care may be at risk.
 
 
 

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Tough questions linger about luger's death

 
Maybe there is no scandal here. Maybe the fact that Nodar Kumaritashvili was buried halfway around the world before the 2010 Olympics ended, interred in the frozen ground of his native Georgia, was simply an accident that could not have been foreseen or prevented. Perhaps tragedy just happens.
 
 
 
 
 

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Law must see animals as more than 'property'

The thought of Nora crawling over the bodies of her peers and fighting to stay alive with half her face blown off is unbearable. She was just one of close to 100 sled dogs killed in Whistler by a dog-sledding company facing a drop in demand for its tours post-Olympics.


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Thumbs up/ Thumbs down

To Geoff, Russ and Bruce Courtnall, for bringing back their celebrity golf tournament. We appreciate the chance to see some stars and the fundraising, but that's not what makes the effort so special. The three brothers deserve the gratitude of all of us for the way they have brought mental illness into the light.


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Parents, teachers and the miracle of reading

Teaching reading, the thing that the men and women who teach in kindergarten to Grade 4 classrooms do every day is, akin to a magic act. It is an amazing feat of patience, skill and experience on the part of these teachers that any of us can read at all. I am in awe of those people.


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ShakeOut: Shaking us out of complacency

Twelve-year-old Martina Maturana saved the lives of her family and her neighbours because she knew exactly what to do when one of the biggest earthquakes in Chile's recorded history rocked her community last year. Ten-year-old Tilly Smith saved her family and hundreds of other tourists on the island of Phuket because she had learned to recognize tsunami warning signs in geography class at school.


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Saanich police silence wrong

Saanich police are making a serious mistake in withholding information about the murder-suicide of a Cadboro Bay couple.


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Build families, not prisons, to reduce crime

Do people want more prisons? Wouldn't they prefer less crime?


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'Leadership politics' is bad for democracy

The leadership trials of the B.C. Liberals and the New Democratic Party continue to underline the need for political parties and leaders to restore the integrity of the legislature in Victoria.


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A simple solution for a common cancer

I had a call from my sister in England the other day and she mentioned that the husband of a friend was being treated for colon cancer.


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F-35 jets and the military-industrial complex

Fifty years ago this week, on Jan. 17, 1961, Americans gathered around their TV sets to watch President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell speech from the White House. He chose his words carefully, and warned the American people about the growth in economic power and political influence of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry.


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UVic health-care team heads to Honduras

In a seven-day visit in Honduras, a University of Victoria student-run non-profit will help bring medical and dental treatment to more than 1,500 people and -- with your help -- supply medicines, eyeglasses, school supplies and other basics.


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Census battle too important to give up

What has happened to the fuss over the census? Remember the story? Last summer the prime minister cancelled the mandatory long-form census and replaced it with a voluntary national household survey.


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Ex-Mulroney aide passionate in all he did

Bear. That was his nickname on the prime minister's staff bus. Because during the long Ottawa winters, Michel Gratton looked like one, with his full beard, long hair and knee-length fur coat.


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Helping all the Baby Mollys

Our shared response to the challenges faced by Baby Molly and her family has been wonderful -- generous, compassionate and heartwarming.


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Universities the authors of their own woes

The column by the presidents of the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University and Geoff Plant in the Dec. 31 issue shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the true roles of a university and its relations with its community and provincial home.


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