By David South Today’s Seniors (Canada), April 1993 Check your prejudices at the door, look beyond your self-interest, and open your mind, because the Grey Panthers are here in Canada. Joe Moniz, the 26-year-old founder of the Canadian Grey Panthers, is confident that his ambitious plans for a new national seniors’ organization are just what […]
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By David South Today’s Seniors (Canada), July 1993 HIV-tainted blood transfusions given in the early 1980s have left some seniors with AIDS, but it is feared many are unaware of their HIV-positive status. Between 1979 and 1985 – before testing of blood products for HIV became mandatory – 266 transfusion recipients and over 677 hemophiliacs […]
Don Weitz wears a T-shirt bluntly saying, “Fry rice – not brains.” By David South Today’s Seniors (Canada), November 1992 Seniors who live in nursing homes and homes for the aged are receiving an inadequate amount of psychiatric care, according to a study conducted by Toronto’s Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. Dr. David Conn, director […]
By David South Today’s Seniors (Canada), December 1993 When Orangeville senior Donald Potter was told he was too old to receive a bone marrow transplant, he paid $150,000 to get one in the United States. His case, recently made public by provincial Conservative leader Mike Harris, has raised the disturbing issue of health care rationing […]
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