Bereavement in the emergency room
I recognized so much of myself in this experience. Just after the Easter break, I had a miscarriage at about four weeks pregnant. After an endless call to Info-Santé as well as to the clinic where I was to begin my pregnancy follow-up, I had no other choice but to go to the emergency room. Thirteen hours to see a doctor, then two hours to see her again with the results. And yet, at the end of these 15 hours of stress and uncertainty, they were not able to confirm 100% the end of the pregnancy. I had to go back 48 hours later for more tests and the final diagnosis. Overall, I recovered well, but I continue to doubt whether emergencies are the best resource to support this type of bereavement.
Meggie Sanschagrin, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac
Read “The inhuman banality of miscarriages”
Unfriendly parents and children
Two blocks from my house there is a secondary school and opposite a primary school. In addition to buses in the parking lot, both sides of the street fill up with parents’ cars every day. Of course with the engine running while waiting for their offspring to get out of school. I have already written to the City about this, but it is not their responsibility. Who is responsible for issuing a ticket for a running engine? In addition, it is the street corner in the city that is most lined with food packaging waste purchased at the convenience store. Come on, young people, it’s up to you to get your act together!
Julie Dostaler, Rosemère
Read “Would you like to turn off the engine, please?” »
Infinite gratitude
PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Normand Gingras received a transplant 43 years ago.
Thanks to people like you full of kindness and courage, people like me manage to live, to work, to start a family, to have children and grandchildren. I will never be grateful enough for all this generosity on your part. After 43 years of transplant, I am still on good old Earth. Thank you and all those who have the courage to put their pain and torment aside for a moment. Thank you, thank you, good luck.
Normand Gingras, Beloeil
Read “Shawn, Organ Donor and Hero”
Fewer and fewer collective interests
Employees feel that they have nothing to lose by refusing employers’ offers: they will not go on a general strike because they know that it has no positive effect (the FAE strike is an example), and they believe that the employer cannot afford to lock it out. And many of them could find work elsewhere if they are not satisfied with the results. There are fewer and fewer collective interests and more and more individual concerns in the world of work. It is becoming more and more difficult for an employer to negotiate with a union that protects the status quo and seniority. The new generation of workers is elsewhere!
Denis Pinsonneault, Sainte-Julie
Read “It’s hard to be a union”
Paying beneficiary
I agree with the principle of the user and the beneficiary paying. I’m 70 years old and it’s free for me, and yet I can pay. I think the mayor did it for political gain. My employer, a CSSS, before the 2014 merger, reimbursed 50% of the OPUS card amount for staff who used public transport. A good example of the beneficiary participating in the financing.
Réal Lizotte, Montreal
Read “Do I benefit from public transport? I pay. »
The credits are too long
PHOTO BERNARD BRAULT, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
New: spectators are sometimes invited to watch the credits of a film on their phone.
I attended a premiere at the Quartier Latin cinema in Montreal after the screening of the film The beast, by Bertrand Bonello. Spectators were invited to to scan a QR code on the screen with our phone so that we can download and play the end credits. Of the ten spectators present, only three complied. This is reminiscent of a platform like Netflix, which does not want to “annoy” its subscribers with credits. It is true that five commercials of one minute each in theaters are more profitable than a five-minute credits. What will be the next step? The whole movie on the phone? Room operators will be well advanced. If they want to last, they must find other solutions to attract and retain crowds, as in Hitchcock’s time. I like seeing the end credits on the big screen. It’s a ritual. And we learn a lot of things there. We also pay tribute to the makers of the film, which is a collective work.
Sylvio Le Blanc, Montreal
Long live women’s sport
PHOTO JOSIE DESMARAIS, THE PRESS
The Montreal team faces the Toronto team at the Bell Center on April 20 in an LPHF match.
A 61-year-old woman, I played hockey on the sidewalks and in the alleys of Montreal. With the boys, when making teams, I was always chosen first, being as good if not better than them. At that time, I could never have aspired to be an Ann-Renée Desbiens or a Marie-Philip Poulin, this opportunity was strictly reserved for boys. I am so proud and moved by the current craze for professional women’s hockey. For these girls, the path has not always been easy, they are positive role models for everyone and deserve to finally have an organization that offers them professional support both in terms of training and sports medicine. . I emphasize the word “positive” because in the wake of the scandals and atrocities that have recently been revealed in men’s hockey, a well-managed women’s league that wants to do things its own way can only excite us. It’s time to show that professional sport is not just for men. In a Bell Center on the verge of bursting with shouts and enthusiasm, with tears in my eyes, I felt all the pride and the desire of the spectators to communicate their love and their recognition to these women on the ice. The diversity of the audience delighted me, young, old, women, men, gay, straight…. Wow, that was beautiful to see! These girls are unifiers and so deserve their success. Long live the LPHF.
Johanne Provençal, Montreal
reference: www.lapresse.ca