Marc Montgomery is off this week, as is Wojtek Gwiazda, so Carmel Kilkenny is sitting in for Marc, with Lynn Desjardins. Terry Haig replaced Wojtek this week, and Terry looked into the growing area of ‘patient’s rights’.
ListenCanadian Medical Association encourages more patient-access to files
The Canadian Medical Association Journal is encouraging doctors to make the notes they keep on patients, available to the patients themselves. There is a certain amount of resistance, but more doctors are being persuaded of the benefit, and with electronic record-keeping, it is easier to do. Terry Haig spoke with Dr. Kirsten Patrick, the CMAJ’s deputy editor, to find out more about why it benefits patients to have access to their files and notes.
19 to 21-year olds no longer welcome to Canada with immigrant families
Lynn Desjardins covered one of the latest changes in the federal government’s ongoing tightening of the immigration process. This one is a regulation that will split some of the families coming to Canada. Now, sons and daughters between the ages of 19 and 21 will no longer automatically be admitted with parents who are admitted as asylum seekers or immigrants. Lynn speaks with Rick Goldman, an executive member of the Canadian Council for Refugees, to hear more about the effect this new rule will have on families.
100 memorial plaques in 100 places: remembering the first internment in Canada
Professor Lubomyr Luciuk, is a professor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. Several years ago he began to champion the cause of the many people interned across Canada in 1914. Over 8,500 people were rounded up and delivered to camps far from their homes in most cases. About half were Ukrainian. The rest had originally come to Canada from other countries in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Professor Luciuk told me about the upcoming “wave of reconciliation”, or a “plaque-wave” as he described it. On August 22, 2014, there will be a series of ceremonies, large and small, across Canada, to honour the memory and the experience of all those people 100 years ago.
And Lynn and I also discussed some of the memorable blog posts this week, including Parks Canada’s initiatives to help people get to know and love camping. In some cases, it just involves arriving at the campsite, Parks Canada will have everything ready for you! And I talked about the news that Alanis Obomsawin will be featured in the Masters section of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. After 50 years of documentaries chronicling the life and times of Canada’s aboriginal people, it is a fitting honour. Her latest film, ‘Trick or Treaty’ will be screened.
The full versions of these stories, with links, are elsewhere in the highlights section.
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