The logic of saving for a rainy day

We get it. It’s hard to be responsible, and it’s hard to pinch pennies when there’s so much pressure on your wallet.

Letters, June 5

For argument’s sake, let’s say the average school zone is 500 metres. It takes about six seconds longer to travel that distance at 30 km/h than it does at 50 km/h.

Treating the fever while ignoring the infection

At any moment in Manitoba’s hospital system, three patients may be waiting.

One is in the emergency room, waiting to be assessed.

A second has been assessed, admitted to hospital, and is waiting in the emergency department for an upstairs bed.

A third sits upstairs in that hospital bed. Their acute problem has resolved, but they cannot safely go home because home care, supportive housing, rehabilitation or long-term care is not ready.

Letters, June 4

When universal health care was first rolled out, doctors pushed back against it, thinking it would limit their ability to earn a living.

School zones and speed: a bad mix

This feels very much like one of those issues that fits into the category of “Why is this even a thing?”

Life at the speed of sound

I was only five years old when the Beatles broke up and yet their music has been the overarching soundtrack of my life.