It’s nice to see a systemic look at what’s plaguing the healthcare system in BC. Today, The Tyee publishes an article on emergency room capacity, and the strain on the acute care system brought about by several decades of decisions, the consequences of which are coming home to roost. This piece is part of a longer series The Tyee is publishing on the hospital overcrowding in British Columbia.
It’s been a wild weather week here on the south coast of BC. The rains and southeasterly winds have subsided, which always means a backing northwesterly and last night while it was calm here on the east side of our little Island, a few kilometres away the west side was being battered by 100km/h wind gusts and several trees came down over power lines, making today a hunker down at home day for most of the island. The cold front came through around 1:00am last night, when the wind direction swung almost 180 degrees and went from 10km/h to 70km/h+ gusts. The library is closed as the staff were trapped on the other side of the island, so I’m just quietly enjoying the sunshine and calm ocean here on the east side and listening to the water drain off the mountains and into the sea.
It was a torrid weekend for sports in our house. Tottenham had a terrible performance in Nottingham losing 3-0 to Forest. It’s hard to know what is plaguing Spurs, but the joy seems gone from the game for many of them. And it’s diabolical that we have perhaps the best centre back pairing in the league (if not one of the best in the world) and yet, we’re conceding silly goals. Things were looking good after the midweek Champions League win against Prague and the 2-0 Premier league win against Brentford. We sit in 11th place. On the ice, the Toronto Maple Leafs, who have been on a decent run of form lately, choked against the Edmonton Oilers and lost 6-2. Edmonton is my daughter’s team and she and I watched the game together. It was a lopsided energetic in the TV room on Saturday night. Much was redeemed though yesterday. The Leafs had a fantastic come from behind win against Chicago with a couple of very late goals to erase a TERRIBLE first period and a 2-0 deficit. And The Vancouver Goldeneyes returned to the city after an extended road trip and stopped a three game losing streak to take a 2-1 win and slot themselves in at second place in the standings.
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