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Ford: Alberta's health system is ailing, despite best efforts of staff

Ford: Alberta's health system is ailing, despite best efforts of staff
03.04.2025 10

Edmonton Sun

Catherine Ford

Ford: Alberta's health system is ailing, despite best efforts of staff

Ford: Alberta's health system is ailing, despite best efforts of staff

What this boils down to is the shocking inefficiency and waste in the heart of the system, not the staff

02.04.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: The loss of a Great One from Canada

Gretzky seemingly 'forgot' his original citizenship

19.03.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: Ali's greatest win was standing up for his principles

Anyone willing to lose everything and face the consequences for standing up for his principles deserves no less than our gratitude

05.03.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: Axe the tax talk: Canada's consumption tax — the GST — pays for myriad programs and services for all

Anyone who believes the 'government' is not 'us' needs a primary lesson in civics. All that lost revenue results in fewer services available to...

19.02.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: This year, let's list all the things that bring light and joy, instead of darkness

For list-makers, these past weeks have been a source of pleasure, satisfaction and confirmation. We are bombarded with “the best of” this and “the...

08.01.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: A childish wish to see angels materialize with charitable deeds

Christmas Eve is about expectation and desire, and it doesn’t matter how young or old one is. Today is a magical day of waiting. Christmas is a...

24.12.2024 2

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: If obesity is a disease, promoting the cause of it has to stop

Call it fat, chunky or plump. Call it a lack of willpower, overeating or, now, a disease. If one is larger than everyone around, it’s mentally...

11.12.2024 4

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: No-fault insurance has no gain for good drivers

Welcome to winter; to slick side roads, icy patches and bad drivers. Welcome to drivers who forget winter means snow tires. This isn’t Vancouver or...

27.11.2024 30

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: Poppies don't cover the fact we are failing so many veterans in need

Another Remembrance Day has come and gone, with it the solemnity and the hushed voices, the recitation of John McCrae’s iconic poem In Flanders...

13.11.2024 40

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: Celebrity accusations show we've still a long way to go

“We’ve come a long way, baby” to quote a 1968 cigarette commercial. But 56 years later, there is still a long way to go. Those of us who lived...

01.11.2024 4

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: Develop a thankful habit to shield you from the bad times

It could — it should — be the best holiday of the year. It has no hint of religion, region or nationalism. We all share equally in Thanksgiving....

16.10.2024 30

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: We all have the right to speak up and condemn Smith's Bill of Rights

Provincial politics is not my “beat.” (That’s newspaper speak for a journalist’s ongoing assignment to report on a specific area.) There are...

02.10.2024 3

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: Traffic in the Centre of the Universe can drive you mad

The next Calgary driver who complains about traffic congestion — Marda Loop comes to mind — needs to be forcibly deported to the Centre of the...

18.09.2024 3

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: School — and breaking a few rules — teaches lessons for life

All the kids are back in school and stories about anxiety and trepidation have cropped up everywhere. I don’t doubt these are real problems, but...

04.09.2024 3

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford

Ford: Do Not Call as this citizen fed up with phone scammers

Ashley is my new best friend. For weeks, she called me daily, sometimes twice. One memorable day she called three times. I call her my friend...

21.08.2024 2

Calgary Herald

Catherine Ford