Home care cuts unacceptable
Wake up people. The government has cut the home care service. We are going to lose it.
Anyone with a loved one who depends on home care will end up looking after that person. If both a husband and wife work, who will take care of their loved one?
I have a distant relative who was on oxygen and was cut to two or three hours of home care a week. That is not fair or acceptable.
A patient may look or feel good on the day a home care co-ordinator visits, and then their services are cut until the next annual visit.
NDP members will all retire with a great pension and will be able to afford private help. They want to give our hard-earned money to big companies, and cut their taxes and power rates to keep them here, while our seniors’ services are being cut.
Please help these people keep the home care workers, who are excellent at their jobs. Help start a petition to let the NDP know we need the home care service. Some people don’t have a family.
If anyone knows how to start a petition, please email me at shydoll@ns.sympatico.ca.
Sharon McPherson New Waterford
ing municipal election, our community begins to buzz about candidates running for office. The focus appears to be on the top job of mayor.
I ask myself why anyone would be interested in holding such a position in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. The population is receding and the CBRM’s debt is staggering. I’m obviously missing something.
The mayoral candidates are interesting, fitting nicely into the recycle category.
Whoever succeeds in the upcoming election has one task: correct the financial mess our community is suffering from.
I believe any candidate who promises future action with a price tag will not succeed. I hope all mayoral candidates address the financial burden heaped on CBRM taxpayers.
The candidates must address this dilemma and put forth their plan for recovery as a top priority. Then, let the voters decide. Lynn Pollock Sydney Nova MLA Gordie Gosse’s office. Premier Darrell Dexter was in talks with Talbot House officials.
People around here need the best access to addiction services; we had it in Talbot House and don’t want to lose it. We’ve lost enough.
Call, email, write a letter; do whatever it takes to save Talbot House. Mickey Bushnik Sydney Mines