Columnist wrong to link cancer and politics
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 21/09/2011 (5370 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Deveryn Ross told me once that it took him a whole week to write his column.
That he thought about it, drafted it, then wrote it and thought about it some more. And all in all it took him all week to fine tune his submission to the Brandon Sun for his column for the Saturday paper.
In this past week’s column, Ross offered what has become a familiar diatribe against the NDP government of Premier Greg Selinger and his cabinet, but with a more vicious twist condemning the lack of the use of cancer drugs purportedly available in other venues.
However he is very careful not to get too specific about which drugs he is talking about or which provinces dispense them free and for what specific kind of cancer they are being used for. All very pertinent questions which he fails to mention.
Of course no checkable facts makes deniability easier doesn’t it?
Now Mr. Ross knows, as do all cancer patients in Brandon, that all decisions as to who gets what kinds of treatment, and how much, and in what order, are all organized by the oncologists in Winnipeg and supervised by doctors here in Brandon.
Now Deveryn, I’m going to speak to you personally as my wife survived three bouts of cancer of a serious nature.
We take serious offence at you for linking cancer and politics in the vicious and repugnant way in which you chose to do so in your nasty column.
In all her troubles, my wife only encountered kindness, skill, respect and understanding.
With all the surgery and drugs she duly required with nary a bill in sight except for the Lennox Bell Lodge hostel (for which we were very grateful it was there).
You also brought up Jack Layton, whose widow explained the other day that the reason that he didn’t divulge his type of cancer was because he didn’t want people who had the same type to worry, as they might have better luck fighting the disease.
A class act unlike you, sir.
And just so you know, I’m a 75-year-old ex-farmer — not a journalist — who wrote this in about two hours flat.
MALCOLM MACDONALD
Brandon