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When the Medically Assistance in Dying law (MAID) was introduced Laurie knew immediately that it was unlikely that she would be able to take advantage. The combination of being near death as well as in sound mind was unlikely once the cancer had metastasized into her brain.

It looks like the changes that the Superior Court of Québec have ordered would help people in Laurie’s position but it is far from clear. The Government is now running an online questionnaire regarding MAID. Please take the time and make your opinions known. I add the link below with the caveat that there is little evidence how the Government will respond to the findings from the consultation.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cons/ad-am/index.html

It is hard, bordering on impossible, to believe that it has been two years. I miss Laurie every day.

My friend Peter has written about his spouse ending her cancer treatment and moving to purely palliative care. As usual he offers some really useful insight into this familiar moment.

https://ruk.ca/content/catherine

Another find from the Internet Archive

Table from The public schools of Ottawa (1918) found at http://www.archive.org/details/publicschoolsofo00markuoft

In 1918 First Avenue School had 645 students occupying 13 classrooms plus a kindergarten. Connaught School, new at the time, had 604 students in 13 classrooms plus  a kindergarten. Mutchmor had 545 students in 11 classrooms plus a kindergarten for an average of almost 50 students per classroom.

I am thrilled to have purchased two excellent looking memoirs in the last few weeks. Both from authors Laurie Kingston supported and encouraged. She would have been overjoyed to see them in print.
Henriette Ivanans-McIntyre has written a memoir “In Pillness and in Health: A memoir. (https://www.amazon.com/Pillness-Health-memoir-Henriette-Ivanans-ebook/dp/B07V49YDC8)

Amanda Jetté Knox has written “Love Lives HereA Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family” (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/566534/love-lives-here-by-amanda-jette-knox/9780735235175)

I am really looking forward to reading both.

I was lucky enough to witness a turtle laying eggs the other evening at Brown’s Inlet. Seems like a poor approach to reproduction to lay eggs in an open area and abandon them for two months. But who am I to judge.

The last week or so has brought major flooding to Ottawa and environs. I was able to spend a bit of time helping out around the city. It has been amazing to see so many volunteers doing whatever they can to help. It seemed to me to be at just the right level of order/disorder. Enough organization that people were being kept safe and were doing useful tasks, but not so bureaucratic that people couldn’t just pitch in and help. I signed a bunch of waivers and that was about it. I’m sure there will be a proper evaluation after it passes, but to me, at least on the Ottawa side of the river, it looked good.

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Bell bragging about not having rich shareholders or paying out large dividends.

March 4 1929 Ottawa Citizen 

We saw this as part of the Ottawa International Animation Festival. It’s really good. And ’tis the season.

As well as copying in old posts that may be still of interest I am thinking of more regular writing here. I assume that if I don’t link to this site from Facebook or Twitter it will never be found other by anyone other than spam bots. This may serve me just fine.