Daily Archives: January 19, 2010

 By Doug Draper

For the third time in six years, the only Niagara MPP who has held an

Veteran Ontario Cabinet Minister and St. Catharines MPP Jim Bradley

 Ontario cabinet post since Tim Hudak, the province’s Conservative leader, held several cabinet posts in the former governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves, and Peter Kormos had a short stint as  a cabinet minister in the NDP government of Bob Rae,  has been shuffled once again.

Veteran Liberal MPP Jim Bradley has moved from appointments to the province’s Tourism Ministry in 2003, to the Ministry of Transportation in 2007 and, as of this January 18, to the Ministries of Municipal Affairs and Housing in the government of Premier Dalton McGuinty. Continue reading →

 By Doug Draper

The next time the Niagara Health System – the body responsible for administering most of the hospitals across Niagara, Ont. – wants to host an ‘Open House’ for the public, why not hold it in a bowling alley. And preferably on an evening when there is a tournament on.

Niagara Health System CEO Debbie Sevenpifer and Welland resident Joe Somers try to converse in noisy corridor of Y complex

It would probably be less noisy and chaotic than it was on a Monday evening, this Jan. 18, as about 40 or 50 Niagara residents tried to crowd into a corner of a corridor a crowded Welland YM/YWCA building, between a swimming pool, gymnasium and staircase leading up to exercise rooms, for an opportunity to discuss their concerns about the region’s hospital services with the health system’s president and CEO Debbie Sevenpifer. Continue reading →