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Slaymaker Reflects on a 64-Year Career Teaching Basketball – PHE America

Violin15/03/2023 57 Views

Ron Slaymaker scans

the Peabody Gazette-Herald bobbed high above the boy’s head as he shouted, “The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor! The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor!” Five-year-old Ron Slaymaker watched the paper boy, uncertain about all the commotion on December 7, 1941. “I remember that day,” recalled Slaymaker. “For the next four years, we were involved in World War II. Everything changed. We had to sacrifice. All the news was about the war.” Slaymaker enjoys telling stories and at 86 years old he has a lot to share. His tales entertain and often he adds flavor, and exaggerations to key details for a greater

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Health care is not in ‘crisis,’ the minister said. Nurses disagree

Violin13/03/2023 48 Views

Nurses stormed Queen’s Park Thursday, with a protest outside and a lobby day inside the provincial parliament

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.

While Ontario’s nursing union held a mass protest outside Queen’s Park Thursday, a nursing lobby group was working on the inside, putting pressure on the Ford government.

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) organized the protest with the support of allied labor groups. On stage before hundreds of nurses and supporters, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions Linda Silas

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Present at the Active Schools National Summit – PHE America

Violin11/03/2023 65 Views

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Health care, housing and leadership top issues as PEI heads toward April 3 votes

Violin10/03/2023 57 Views

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King called a provincial election for April 3 on Monday night, and political experts say the top issues on the campaign trail are expected to be health care, housing and leadership.

King’s majority Progressive Conservative government is seeking a second term in office following four years marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, two major post-tropical storms

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Tips and Tools for Success – PHE America

Violin10/03/2023 56 Views

Education continues to evolve offering students an assortment of opportunities to earn college credit while still attending high school. In the state of Idaho, the Fast Forward Program provides students attending public schools access to $4,125.00 to help pay for dual/concurrent enrollment credits, Advanced Placement College Board, and Professional Technical Education exams and overload course fees. Dual/concurrent enrollment is a collaborative partnership between higher education and high schools to provide college courses for high school students. The high school instructors are pre-approved by the college/university academic departments to deliver college-level courses.

A fundamental component of this partnership is that the

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Health Care

Letter: A better healthcare alternative does exist

Violin08/03/2023 64 Views

Ontario now funds our public hospitals at the lowest rate of any province in Canada despite the government’s claims that it pays more for health care than ever before

To the editors:

The decision of the Ford government to privatize some of Ontario’s health care services and hand them over to for-profit clinics and hospitals is a political choice, but doing so is not a necessity.

During the 2022 Spring election campaign, the Ford Cons were repeatedly asked if privatization was on their agenda. They categorically denied that it was…several times in fact. The Ford Cons lied, and they simply

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AHS administrator reports shorter health-care wait times after 90 days in role

Violin05/03/2023 88 Views

Alberta Health Services has reduced wait times for surgeries and EMS services, according to official administrator Dr. John Cowell’s 90-day progress report released Monday.

The report, the first released by Cowell since the launch of the Health Care Action Plan on Nov. 17, highlights actions that have been taken and others that are in progress.

Premier Danielle Smith said the report showed her that the system is not on the brink of collapse like she was told when she took office in October.

“The system is not in crisis. It’s not going to collapse,” Smith said. “We’re seeing the numbers

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Biden to defend health-care spending, ridicule possible GOP cuts

Violin28/02/2023 56 Views

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President Biden is planning to mount a vigorous defense of his health-care policies as he ramps up criticism of Republican proposals that he argues could threaten the Affordable Care Act and Medicare.

Biden is traveling to Virginia Beach on Tuesday afternoon as part of a new line of attack that puts the White House and congressional Republicans on a collision course over possible budget cuts. Some top Republicans have threatened to vote against raising the debt ceiling — which would cause the federal government to default on its loans within a few months — unless

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