ProActive Rants: Getting Involved - Legislative Assembly of Ontario

ProActive Rants: Getting Involved - Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Crowding overlooked | Chatham Daily News

Crowding overlooked | Chatham Daily News

Health ministry data on hospital overcrowding riddled with errors 0

Are you safe-a wake up call about your Ministry of Health?


"Many industrialized countries keep occupancy rates at or below 85% so hospitals can safely care for patients when there’s a surge in demand. Studies and experts have linked overcrowded wards to higher death rates and outbreaks of superbugs.

But in Ontario, 87 of 151 hospitals were above 85% capacity the last three months of 2013, including 33 that topped 95% and 12 that were at or above 100". ( Our local hospital  (BGH or Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant was at: 106%. )

The best defense is to protect yourself through a healthy safe lifestyle and good personal  living environment

Have faith.. Flying Through the Flack

Have faith in yourself



Whenever we want to make progress or grow in our personal and spiritual life, or seek to serve God more enthusiastically, chances are we will face opposition and some flack.


On one occasion, I was facing an uncomfortable amount of flack because of a major change of direction I had made in my life, which I believed was right for me to do. But the flack I received came not from "the enemy without" but from opposition within. As the saying goes, "Christians are the only army that shoots its wounded."

When I was feeling the strain, I was also feeling afraid. Then I pictured in my mind's eye that I was a pilot flying through enemy territory with a lot of flack coming at me; but sitting beside me was my co-pilot, Jesus Christ! Immediately, I knew I would be safe and that he would guide me safely through the "storm". And he did.

Pope Francis’s first year: Faith, hope—and how much change? | The Economist

Pope Francis’s first year: Faith, hope—and how much change? | The Economist

Pope Francis’s first year

Faith, hope—and how much change?

How a modest but canny man is approaching the complex task of leading the Roman Catholic church

Mar 6th 2014, 16:01 | From the print edition

IN THE 12 months since he appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s to begin his papacy with a disarmingly unaffected “Good evening” to the crowd below, Pope Francis has won a following far beyond the Roman Catholic church.