Nathalie Zanon

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Bidding for doctors is bad: Letter to the Editor

Napanee has followed many other Ontario communities in offering a signing bonus to a new doctor (Napanee lures doctor to community, Whig-Standard, May 15, 2007). I think we should consider what may happen if local communities continue to spend money to recruit or provide financial incentives to new physicians. First, it would not be surprising if more affluent communities had sufficient numbers of physicians while less affuent communities did not. That would threaten the universality guaranteed in the 1984 Canada Health Act. Secondly, bidding against our neighbours in an auction for physician’s services could be an expensive way to get medical care. If we’re ready to spend money on incentives, we might save ourselves some money by getting together, as an entire province, and asking if physicians are being compensated enough in the first place. I don’t know what the best answer is to our physician shortage, but pitting one town against its neighbour doesn’t seem to take us in the right direction.

Letter to the Editor concerning SNO and competitiveness

It was refreshing today to see the Whig-Standard feature Professor Art McDonald and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) on its front page. I think it’s worth noting that this group succeeded, and succeeded here in Canada, by putting together some diverse elements: government support for research, foreign collaboration, repatriation of talented Canadians (McDonald was a physics professor at Princeton before returning to Canada to head SNO), risk taking, as well as taking advantage of world-class Canadian resources: a supply of heavy water, a deep underground mine and the technology to work there, and most of all, an existing group of top nuclear physics technicians and scientists.

Perhaps this is an example of what Canada needs to do more often in order to compete, in the global economy, with the concentration of creativity, technical expertise, and infrastructure one finds in places like the San Francisco/Stanford University/Silicon Valley area.

Letter to the Editor of the Toronto Sun

Re: Peter Worthington's column, "Weather Watch", April 25, 2007

Freeman Dyson has indeed said that climate models can't be trusted to predict the effects of global warming. While Mr. Dyson is not a climate researcher, I'll concede that there's uncertainty in the models. But that uncertainty can work both ways. Consider the news today that Artic sea ice has been measured to be melting three times faster than average prediction of 18 computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Instead of doubting global warming we should be cautious and conservative by putting the burden of proof on those who say that it's okay to continue "business as usual".