I want to give you some interesting news stories for you to read. They are stories that I have seen in various media outlets in our area and areas around the world dealing with matters that I think are significant for our region. I will do this reasonably often to keep you up to date on matters that I think would be helpful for you.
Some of the stories are a few weeks old that I have seen. Yet, I thought they might still be important for you to take a look at them. They are still just as relevant now as when they were first published. Of course, I will only show a few of the stories in this posting and will add other ones that I think are good ones in other posts soon.
I'm going to try and do this more often to try and keep you up-to-date on matters that I think are important to me anyway and hopefully to you as well. If you find any news stories that you think are fascinating to you and would like to share them with others, then forward them to me and I can post them on my website if they make sense for me to do so. Heck, I can even give you the credit you deserve if you so desire!
My approach is to set out the relevant parts of the stories and, in some cases, to explain why I am posting them. Of course, I will give you the reference for the full story for you to read.
Naturally, many of the stories will be those that I support. But I may also add those to which I think will give you relevant information. In fact, some may well be stories to which I am opposed but yet still think you should see to understand why.
Here are a bunch of stories now which I think are important and which I hope will be of interest to you. Naturally, I expect that these types of stories will bring you to my website more often to look for them.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34907009?SThisFB
"US issues worldwide travel alert over terror threats 24 November 2015http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34907009?SThisFB
The state department said "current information" suggested the Islamic State [IS] group, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and others continued "to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions".
The alert, it said, will remain in place until 24 February 2016.
A US
Obviously, the last line may not have been correct for very long given what happened in California
"San Bernardino terrorist attack shatters Southern California 's illusion of safety
As terrorist attacks fueled by extreme Islamist ideology convulsed cities in the U.S. and Europe over the last 15 years, Los Angeles
It couldn't last forever.
The assault on a
But the killing of 14 people by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik has had a particular effect in Southern California, a densely populated region whose residents have at times felt themselves remote from the transatlantic waves of terror that have washed over New York, London, Paris, Madrid and Washington, D.C.
That sense of separation is deeply rooted in the state's culture and history, experts say, though it is in many ways unrealistic. The truth is that the Southland — home to more than 22 million people, as well as an entertainment industry that is arguably the foremost exporter of the secular culture denounced by Islamic fundamentalists — is as vulnerable as anywhere else in the U.S.
Obviously now, the question for us is what may happen in Canada with people coming here from Syria
"Percy Hatfield says province unlikely to take back E.C. Row
CBC News Posted: Nov 24, 2015 8:11 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 24, 2015 1:23 PM ET
Coun. Rino Bortolin moved a motion at Monday's executive council meeting, asking for the city to ask the province to take back responsibility for the E.C. Row Expressway. (CBC)
The provincial politician commented on city council's latest attempt to hand off expensive maintenance costs for the busy east-west highway. During an executive committee meeting Monday night, councillors agreed to ask the province to once again resume responsibility of E.C. Row.
But the financially strapped Ontario Ministry of Transportation already has budget problems with road and highway maintenance, according to Hatfield, who is also a former Windsor
Is this going to happen...Probably not:
"It’s a long shot that the province will actually take it back from us, but it’s something that needs to be on the public record,” Bortolin said. “Slowly but surely different things are being downloaded from the province onto us. It’s tougher and tougher every year.” (Craig Pearson, Windsor
Are P3 deals all dead now?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/liberals-drop-public-private-requirement-for-infrastructure-funding/article27322884/
"Liberals drop public-private requirement for infrastructure funding
The federal government will no longer require that cities and provinces look first at creating public-private partnerships before getting funding for major infrastructure projects.
The new Liberal government, which is preparing to roll out $5-billion a year in additional infrastructure spending, will work much more co-operatively with other governments to get the money out the door, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Amarjeet Sohi told The Globe and Mail.
Among the first changes will be to get rid of a requirement, put in place by the Conservatives in 2011, that all federally funded infrastructure projects worth $100-million or more go through so-called “P3 screening.”
Living longer is terrific but there are significant problems that also have to be dealt with as a result.
"The Global Burden of Diseases: living with disability The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(15)01096-X.pdf
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(15)01096-X.pdf
The UN observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec 3, 2015...
In today's Lancet, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team provides a substantial contribution to baseline statistics, against which the progress of SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] can be measured, for health and disability. Their report focuses on disability-adjusted life-years and healthy life expectancy for 306 diseases and injuries in 188 countries over a period spanning 1990 to 2013. The good news is that global life expectancies have improved by around 6·2 years, and healthy life expectancy has gained on average 5·4 years. Even so, as highlighted in an accompanying Comment by Peter Byass, a consistent trend emerges from these data, showing that, worldwide, about an eighth of life expectancy was associated with living with disability in 2013. Reductions in mortality mean that people are living longer, and an epidemiological shift in disease burden, from communicable to non-communicable diseases in a globally ageing population, has occurred. As a result of this transition, health system infrastructures must be adapted to address longer lives lived with disability."
There is a big issue that is described that we are now facing here:
"The wait list for long-term care in Windsor-Essex already has 930 people, according to the Community Care Access Centre. Of those, 545 are people already in homes who are trying to get into ones they want. There are 385 people waiting in hospital or at home for a bed to come open, and the list at some in-demand homes like Huron Lodge, can be two years long.
Musyj said at his hospital alone, there are 104 acute care beds (usually costing $1,200 a day to operate) taken up by patients — mostly frail and elderly — who should be somewhere else, such as rehab, at home with home care or in long-term care.
His hospital has 32 people waiting for long-term care, who on average have been waiting 132 days. Having a quarter of the hospital’s beds taken up by these patients causes backups throughout the system, said Musyj, who added the hospital receives no funding for caring for them while they wait.
“It’s not the patients’ fault. The patients who are here have nowhere else to go.” (Brian Cross Windsor
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