Some New Thoughts

All kinds of interesting things have happened over the last little while. I have to admit that I never expected these kinds of matters to take place. But what the heck, that is what is happening now and so I decided to comment on them so that you could know a bit more about them.  

Let me start off by giving you this mere example. 

I just received an interesting email from one of my best friends obviously, although frankly we've never met or ever spoken to each other. I have never written to her either. I had no reason to ever suspect that I was this well-known to one of the most powerful women in this country: the wife of the Prime Minister of Canada, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. 

Yes, that is right. Obviously I must have been that well-known to the PM's Wife after sending a letter to the Party asking merely to be added to their mailing list.  My name somehow found my way to her and she must have an idea about how important I am! Now because of that, I feel great. 

Here is part of a letter that she just sent to me by email.  Just double-click it to see it much better:

Make sure that you read what I just posted once again slowly so that you understand my importance to the PM and his wife. The last part states as clearly as possible the following:

 

"And Ed, you are the heart of our movement. [Note the slant that follows:]  "I can't thank you enough." 

Well, that should demonstrate my importance, correct! I am a most powerful person in this entire country based on what the PM's wife has stated.  There is no doubt in my mind, dear reader, that you now feel privileged to be someone who has access to my mailing system and can read all of the important articles that I write. 

There's just one small thing that she wrote that I found a bit surprising and was not certainly something that I ever felt like doing:

 

I just assume that she won't be upset when I only like the first part of her letter to me.

Here is another example of how wonderful this City is as a prizewinner.  As I said at the start, I hardly ever expected something so marvelous for the City of Windsor. Actually, winning this prize is hardly a good example for any City: 

"Quest to find worst road in Ontario comes to Windsor 

If you’ve ever thought to yourself that Tecumseh Road East has got to be one of the worst damn roads in the city — you’re not alone. 

The arterial road currently has the most local votes in the Canadian Automobile Association’s annual Worst Roads in Ontario campaign. 

“It hasn’t been a specific section. It’s just Tecumseh Road East,” said Caroline Grech, a spokeswoman for CAA South Central Ontario, in Windsor on Thursday." (Dalson Chen, Windsor Star, April 9, 2015)    

Just so that you know, dear reader, here is what happened just over a month later: 

"Tecumseh Road East named one of the worst streets in Southwestern Ontario

(Trevor Wilhelm, WindsorStar, May 26, 2016)  

Tecumseh Road East has earned the distinction of being one of the worst roads in Southwestern Ontario. 

Frustrated Windsor drivers voted the street into the regional category of the Canadian Automobile Association’s annual Worst Roads list."  

To be quite direct about it, we need to try as hard as possible to make sure that everything is fixed up properly right away so that we are not considered for these "Worst" prizes! 

Here though is something to be very pleased about because it may deal with diseases that some of the residents in the Area may pick up: 

"New prostate cancer treatment looks like 'a winning opportunity for all'

 (Brian Cross, WindsorStar May 25, 2016 )  

A clinical trial testing a new radiation treatment for prostate cancer has the potential to improve this area’s lower-than-average survival rate. 

“I would hope so,” says Dr. Junaid Yousuf, a radiation oncologist at Windsor Regional Hospital’s cancer program who is leading the research into stereotactic ablative body radiation in Windsor, one of 14 cancer centres across the country involved in the clinical trial... 

“On the surface (based on the Sunnybrook research) it appears it’s a winning opportunity for all,” Yousuf said...  

Their current cure rate is between 80 and 85 per cent, but the Sunnybrook research shows cure rates between 93 and 99 per cent for SABR, according to Yousuf. The Erie St. Clair health region (Windsor-Essex, Chatham-Kent and Sarnia-Lambton) has the highest incidence of prostate cancer in Ontario, 10 per cent higher than the provincial average, and the survival rate is lower." 

Here is what is truly amazing with what is being worked on at this time. One can hope that it can be used in other ways as well: 

"Dr. Yousuf said SABR could be the “way of the future” for treating favourable (low-risk and intermediate-risk) prostate cancer. He said once this treatment becomes more established, it could be expanded to higher-risk prostate cancers. It is already being used to treat lung cancer in Windsor, and there’s potential for it to be used in the future for other cancers including brain, liver, kidney and spine cancers."