Coucoumellisms

... mais pas n'importe comment. Avant de continuer, j'aimerais constater que je suis plus que tannée des reportages de Radio-Canada biaisés sur le sujet de la grève des étudiants.  À les écouter, on dirait que c'est le gouvernement de Charest contre le Québec au complet.  Comme si tout le monde était du côté des étudiants et qu'il n'y avait que M. Charest là dedans qui était sans dessein. L'autre jour, ils ont failli en parler, ils ont mentionné que le Québec est divisé sur le sujet.  On a ensuite parlé de ceux qui supportent les étudiants et qui vont même jusqu'à marcher dans le rue avec eux. J'attendais... Et que dire de ceux qui ne supportent pas les étudiants? Finalement, ils ont passé à d'autre chose comme si ceux qui ne supportent pas les étudiants n'existaient plus, ou qu'il ne valait pas la peine qu'on en parle.  Non, mais comment veux-tu que je puisse faire, moi-même, mon opinion sur le sujet si vous insistez à ne parle...

Gotta love the health system here. We have 4 or 5 drop-in clinics. I have two boys with ear infections right now. I call the clinic closest to home at about 7:45. The message tells me that the clinic is only open at 9:00. So I call back at 9:00. At 9:00, I get a message telling me that the clinic is compete for today, no spots are available, please call back tomorrow from 8:00. What the h@#%!!! So I call all the other clinics and they are ALL already full, no spots available! Already all full, at 9:00 am. Where are all the doctors? Maybe I should just drive the 45 minutes to the border and pay to see an american doctor? It would probably take me less time to drive the 45 minutes, see the doctor and drive back, than to sit in the hospital all day. It is always pretty much the same, and it must be worse now that everyone is freaking out over H1N1. I don't want to try out the hospital. If you can go there and wait 6 hours in the waiting room wiht no H1N1, I shudder to think what it mu...

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Secular Quebec's 'crisis of values' shows in health problems: cardinal Hostile Media Blamed; 'Disoriented, unmotivated, unstable' population Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 MONTREAL - The Roman Catholic Primate of Canada, Marc Cardinal Ouellet, says the growing spiritual void in Quebec is contributing to "grave and costly repercussions" in the province's public health system. In a philosophical review, Vita e Pensiero, published by the Catholic University of Milan, the Quebec City cardinal writes that Quebec's growing social problems can be attributed to the rupture between its religion and its culture. "The listless anxiety of Quebec's young people, the decline in the marriage rate, the low birth rate, the increasing number of abortions and suicides, has contributed to a crisis of values," he writes. In the article, Where is Quebec Going? Cardinal Ouellet describes Quebecers as ...