In a recent article about the West Island Wellness Centre (‘New resource for West Islanders encountering cancer,’ The Chronicle, March 25), Beaconsfield Mayor Bob Benedetti indicated people must “either cope by themselves or get non-specific help at local CLSCs” when dealing with cancer. Let me set the record straight – there are services in the community for persons diagnosed with cancer, and they have been there for many years. NOVA West Island (formerly VON West Island) has been reaching out to families dealing with cancer for over 20 years. We provide information, nursing expertise, and family support. We have a cancer support group meeting monthly at a local school, and we have a new blog www.novacancersupport.blogspot.com. In addition to CLSC help, hospital oncology departments have greatly improved dissemination of information about the disease, treatments, side-effects and increased the follow-up services and support. Look Good Feel Good volunteers visit hospitals on a regular basis. Can we help you? Call our offices located in Beaconsfield at 514-695-8335.
Jane Lumsden Director NOVA West IslandNOVA reaches out
NOVA reaches out
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- Jacques Beauséjour
- - February 8th, 2010 at 11:15:11
I support the Coalition for Freedom in Education (CLÉ) As a retired school teacher, I was asked in the past to teach two kinds of classes. One was a course on moral principles and the other was a course on the Catholic faith. Parents were the ones who decided which course their child would attend. The class on morals was limited to ethics and the class on Catholic religious education covered both Catholic doctrine and ethical principles. Parents were asked to make a decision regarding the courses offered in the school and the Government did not choices such in place of parents. The Government of Québec has now made the Ethics and Religious Culture Program compulsory, without giving parents any say. This is the reason why I support the Coalition for Freedom in Education (CLÉ) which «brings together volunteer parents» united for the rights of parents to decide. Cf. http://coalition-cle.org/index.php * As one may read in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNO), Article 26 (3): “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.” It is with this in mind that CLÉ takes action to protect the freedom of choice of parents such as you, as you may discover by visiting their web site. I fully support this endeavour to protect parents’ rights! Jacques Beauséjour, Member of Parliament (Parti Québécois) County of Iberville 1976-85 * You can translate the “CLÉ” website in your own language by downloading the Google Toolbar: http://www.google.com/intl/en/toolbar/ie/#tbbrand=
