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The Edmonton Gorilla Run
 Posted 4/22/2010 6:15:00 PM
A charity fun run with a difference ...
Everyone who takes part wears a full gorilla costume - from fluffy head to furry toe - and helps raise funds for the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund, the international charity working to save the world's last remaining mountain gorillas and keeping Dian Fossey's dream alive for the past 25 years.
On the Net:
EdmontonGorillaRun.com
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Lesley Primeau
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Malpractice
Posted 4/14/2010 2:00:00 PM
630Ched ran a news story suggesting that complaints against doctors has gone up nearly 40%. That seemed high to me. Did it mean doctors weren't coddling, holding hands, saying ah or not buying into BS?? Or did it mean something more incidious was going on..
so i started to dig... and what i found is darn near terrifying.. 9000 to 24,000 canadians die every year as a result of some kind of medical error...tho they don't want us to call them errors... when the original study came out, it was basically a warning shot over the bow.. we need to do something... but in the nearly ten years, all that seems to happen is this... we now have protocol that tells health professionals to really wash their hands and how to say i'm sorry..sincerely.. WHY??? Because survey says....patients are more apt to forgive and NOT SUE. i'm not a big ...
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Project Heroes
Posted 4/6/2010 6:29:00 PM
From: ProjectHeroes.ca
Several years ago, artist Susan Abma felt called to paint all of the Canadian soldiers who had been killed in Afghanistan. Many were young boys who had never had a chance in life and now they were gone. Many, if not most, were close in age to Susan’s own children and it made her sad to think of the parents who had lost their ‘babies’ to the war.
Susan hoped the exhibit would be available to tour every province in Canada, and then hopefully be retained as a historic collection by the Canadian Military, the War Museum, or the National Portrait Gallery. The number of fallen soldiers climbed rapidly, however, and Susan was concerned that she may not be able to complete the project herself.
In 2008, when waiting in an airport with Shairl Honey, Susan picked up a magazine that had pictures of all of the fallen ...
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