Scenes from the ER during a doctor shortage When our family doctor checked my sick husband, she advised us to go straight to the hospital. We did that, but waited all day in the waiting room. At 8 p.
m. we walked out because we couldn’t sit in the plastic chairs any longer, and went back the next day.
And what about the man in the cubicle next to ours, whose conversation was heard by all the other cubicles, including us. He was tired, he complained, very, very tired. What was the triage process in which he saw a doctor before we did? We tried speaking to the Duncan mental-health people and were told “for privacy reasons we can’t talk to you,” and got the same response from the family doctor. There wasn’t any counselling available to us to help our son.We knew he needed treatment in a safe and secure place, but this could only happen if he agreed he had a problem.
Consider me a heretic if you want but I would like to vote for candidates that would take a truly conservational approach to the evolution of Victoria. Beware the ides of October. Where does Viva Victoria end and the Peoples Party of Canada begin? They do not. They are in a far-right bed together. Scary stuff.Put the ferry terminal in the Steamship building We should not be discussing $270 million on a new facility. We should repurpose/revert the Canadian Pacific Steamship Terminal building, which has multiple floors, and is a timeless way to arrive into Victoria.
You can vote for three or four if those are the only ones you know about or feel confident about. With such a flood of candidates it’s very important to choose wisely and not to throw away votes on people you know nothing about.COVID is still here, problems are still here The problems at airports are far from over and COVID is alive and well.
I can’t let this commentary go by without putting another side to this debate — one from a landlord’s side.