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Health Doctor Shortage So Long And Canada in Ontario Thanks For All The Anal Despite Lack of MDs Books About Ontario is Toiling Due to Donors Strict Protectionist New Law Bans Gay Men From Organ Donation By Matthew Pope Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the closet… *cue music* From the people who brought you The Definition of Marriage comes a new threat… Health Canada.
“...defenders of the legislation say that it is not an anti-gay mandate...” It has recently been publicized that Health Canada quietly slipped legislation through in December barring gay men from donating their organs. The new regulations stipulate that any gay man that has been sexually active within the last 5 years cannot be considered for organ donation. If you haven’t heard about it yet, don’t worry; even the head of Canada’s largest organ transplant program at Toronto’s University Health Network, Dr. Gary Levy, didn’t know about the changes either. Fear not, gentle reader, the newspaper is on the case. You can expect further discussion on this to follow next week, sans the tasteless sarcastic editorializing. In the meantime, consider the following: defenders of the legislation say that it is not an anti-gay mandate but simply a tightening of regulations intended to exclude highrisk donors (IV drug users are amongst other high-risk groups named in the bill). If this is the case, then why are See Donor cont. pg. 6
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By Nina Manasan You don’t need to be a medical student to know that the road to becoming a doctor is not the smoothest. It is a path lined with intense medical instruction and fierce competition. Still, at the end of eight years, a tenacious few manage to pull through and call themselves doctors. Now imagine successfully attaining this status, only to repeat the entire process all over again. For so many international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign-trained medical professionals in Ontario, this is the reality. In the midst of an increasingly diverse society, the Ontario Ministry of Health doesn’t make it easy for immigrating medical professionals to practice here. To be certified as a physician in Ontario, IMGs must not only pass a slew of written exams -the MCCEEsintended to demonstrate the quality of their medical knowledge, but they must also undergo up to 5 years of residency and training. Only after completing these medical and educational requirements, can IMGs even qualify to take the certification exams. But perhaps the greatest obstacle IMGs face is being approved to take
the exams or accepted into residency programs. Access to both options are conditioned by close evaluation of their medical degrees, short-answer tests, file reviews and interviews. The Ministry offers 200 more residency positions to IMGs annually through the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS), although many of these spaces are left vacant by candidates who are deemed unqualified to fill them. Generally speaking, the limitation on foreign-trained doctors is designed to maintain the highest standard of medical care in Canada, by weeding out those who do not meet it. However, it is also a system that tends to overlook so many deserving physicians whose See IMGs cont. pg. 5
Bestselling Author and Renowned UofT Professor Says Good-Bye to Toronto By Sean Liliani While Research In Motion(RIM) Co-CEO Jim Balsillie failed to bring Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburg Penguins to Waterloo, it was revealed yesterday that the BlackBerry Billionaire has made an acquisition equally impressive to the academic community. Wednesday’s Globe and Mail marked the first public conformation that UofT veteran Thomas (Tad) Homer-Dixon was relocating to Waterloo. After finishing his Ph.D. at MIT in 1989, Homer-Dixon came to Toronto and soon thereafter made his mark as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of societal complexities. With a versatile ability to disseminate information from a variety of fields, his work has managed to translate academic research into bestselling books. Tad’s unique understanding of global issues is what al-
lows him to fit so well at the Balsillie School for International Affairs, explains UoW Dean of Arts, Ken Coats. “We think there’s a tremendous synergy between the way Tad approaches scholarship and the kind of things we’re trying to build at the Balsillie School.” Coats will effectively become Homer-Dixon’s new boss at the Balsillie School and is especially excited about the environmental research that this professor will bring to the think tank. “His work in the last little while on environmental change, the speed of change, and societal ability to respond has really done a lot to set the intellectual tone for discussions that are going on in Canada and around the world… we’re absolutely thrilled to have him joining us.” See Tad cont. pg. 4
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Aboriginal Communities Too Isolated To Receive Adequate Health Care By Tijana Dragivevic This week UofT plays host to the 10th annual Health and Human Rights Conference –an initiative of the university’s International Health Program– the theme of which will be disparities between urban and rural health care. North American awareness of international health crisis relief is often limited to the latest news on Madonna’s personal third world orphanage, or a prerecorded plea from Alex Trebec to donate the price of your mocha frappa chino grande. While most of us are vaguely aware of a far off AIDS epidemic we often understand such issue to be the unfortunate consequence of extreme poverty. It is seldom that us Canadian or American city dwellers realize the disparate health issue devastating our own countries. Dr. Cornelia Wieman is Canada’s first female aboriginal psychiatrist, the Co-Director of the Indigenous Health Research Development Program, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Services at the University of Toronto. Dr. Wieman also worked as a consultant psychiatrist for the Six Nations Mental Health Services. Last March she was appointed to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institute for Health Research. This week she will be speaking at the UofT Health and Human Rights Conference on the topic of health care in aboriginal communities. The First Nations Peoples of North America suffer much lower life expectancies as well as higher rates of chronic disease than the national averages in both US and Canada. According to a study done by Health Canada in 2000, the life expectancy at birth for the Registered aboriginal population was 68.9 years for males and 76.6 years for females. The life expectancies of the general population were 7.4 and 6.5 years higher respectively. Likewise, the rate of tuberculosis among First nations was six times that of the national average. Recently the Lakota Nation Peoples have declared sovereignty from the United States. One of the main reasons cited for this ‘unilateral withdrawal’ is the wretched state of their health. Aboriginal website republicoflakotah.com reports a male life expectancy of less than 44 years, infant mortality rates 300% higher than the U.S. average. While one cause of such limited access to health care is the fact that rural communities are miles away from medial facilities the deeper issue is that poverty and illiteracy curtail the production See Health cont. pg. 3
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Toronto Hosts Health and Human Rights Conference Health cont. from pg. 2 of doctors within such communities. In 2006 the government of British Columbia launched a series of public forums called Conversations on Health that sought to engage First Nations peoples in discussions on how to improve medical care within their communities. The prevailing consensus was that increased control of their own health services would result in improved conditions. The First Nations People felt that prevention and education were vital to combating chronic disease, such as diabetes and HIV, and that medical
care delivery by aboriginal doctors and nurses would have a positive impact on the overall health of the community. Unfortunately there are not many aboriginal health care providers in Canada today. One may very well point to the cost of higher education, and the poverty suffered by most aboriginal families as the causes for the small percentage Native Americans doctors and nurses. You can catch Dr. Weman’s lecture on Saturday, January 19th. For more information about the Health and Human Rights conference you can visit their website www. utihpconference.com.
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Are You Really Healthy? Our society is becoming increasingly bombarded with risks to our health. Reduced air quality, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, McDonald’s, and a rising rate of unbelievably retarded mainstream media news reports are just a few of the everyday threats encountered. The effect of these socioecono-cultural factors on our physical and mental health is indicated by rising rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, respiratory illness, erectile dysfunction, obesity, and being far too ugly to be out in public. As our health degrades, we are faced with an influx of university graduates who were forced into academia by their parents. In the health sector these idiots go on to pursue careers in statistical studies of complete bullshit. With so many conflicting opinions about health, whom should you turn to for the answer? Nowadays, if you go to a physician all he’ll do is get you naked, extract your blood, finger your orifices, and tell you to come back in a month. As an alternative method, you could go to a naturopath who will determine everything that is wrong with you by examining the cornea of your eye, followed by a series of Tarot card readings, and Iroquois rain dances. Upon diagnosis, the naturopath will sell you a plethora of overpriced health food products that will bless you with incapacitating
diarrhea. Who is the best judge of your health? You are, along with the people you have been boning in recent months. If such persons are non-existent, overweight, or ugly, this is a leading indicator that you have a serious health problem and should get in the gym to see a personal trainer immediately. All those literal pain-in-theass trips to the doctor can be replaced with a mirror, a scale, and a gym membership -the M.S.G. health alternative. We don’t give ourselves enough credit when it comes to knowledge of our own bodies. Here are a few examples. When you look in the mirror do you notice a strange rash forming on your neck? Hit the tanning bed three times a week to cover it up. When you turn sideways in the mirror, does your gut stick out more than your chest? It’s time to put down the cookie jar, join the running club, and obviously, hit the bench press. Does it burn when you pee? This is probably a latex allergy and you should stop using condoms when you have sex. Have you experienced a sudden unfavourable change in weight? The only solution is waiting for you at the health club (as long as it’s a good one that sells protein mix and other supplements). Stay healthy Toronto!
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Miracle Workers? the science by Timothy Ryan Nope, Timothy Ryan Takes a Stab at Just Acupuncturists. Conventional medicine failed Tia, so she turned to an ancient Chinese remedy and found the answer By Tia Maryanne Kim We’re be too old to believe in the tooth fairy or vampires, but we shouldn’t throw acupuncture into the category of makebelieve. While waiting in a Zengreen coloured room in San Jose this winter break, I never imagined this ancient method could fix my multitude of illnesses. Every morning I felt like shit. My nose was so stuffed I felt like a 3-year old who had shoved too much Play-Doh in her nasal cavity. I have Limpoma. this chunky fibre/ muscle mass latched onto the lower back. It is so big you can see it bulging out from underneath my skin. My right shoulder was harder than the Rocky Mountains, so stiff I begged friends to punch me there for massage therapyesque relief. After eating, my stomach protruded so far I looked like I’d gotten knocked up 7 months ago and a baby was about to shoot right out. Did I mention my dislocated jaw (TMJ), sesamoditis (two sprained joints in my left foot), and migraines so pulsating I downed Advil everyday that my roommates had to hide my bottle from me? I went through that everyday. CT scans, stomach x-rays and all sorts of poking and
prodding. But doctors, even at the Harvard- affiliated hospital in Boston this summer, never found anything that was “abnormal�. This leads us back to that green room in San Jose, where I met acupunturist Dr. Philip Yang, who quite literally, cured me. I blabbed on to him about every sickness, and after a 5-second pause, he knew what was wrong. Never mind any years of testing this and examining that. My liver was dysfunctional, and couldn’t filter out toxins like it was supposed to. My own body was poisoning itself. Obviously, I Googled everything he said about this weak liver, and he was right. I began receiving the acupuncture treatments along with certain herbs taken twice daily. It was almost like a miracle. The Limpoma chunk is literally half its former size and I find breathing so much easier! After just one session, I could stand firmly with almost no pain on my left foot. Acupuncture obviously can’t cure everything, but we shouldn’t be skeptical about it; it truly does heal. I finally feel like a normal, healthy person who doesn’t need to be punched for pain relief anymore.
Homer-Dixon Has Left the Building Tad cont. from pg. 1 The move to Waterloo not only signifies a departure from UofT, but also from the conventional university structure found in Canada. Although the Balsillie School of International Affairs is associated with both Laurier and the University of Waterloo, its funding comes from the philanthropic efforts of RIM’s Jim Balsillie. “It’s a private institution, it’s not controlled by the University of Waterloo,� says Coats. According to Coats, the Balsillie-led think tank set out with the objective of articulating a ‘Canadian response’ to international issues. Homer-Dixon’s latest book, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and his chapter in A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada have revealed a passionate dedication to research and a paramount concern for the environment. The Balsillie School will no doubt
provide him with great opportunities to contribute to policy, but what exactly does this shift to the ‘think tank’ biz mean? The influences of the think tanks in the United States –such as that of Project For The New American Century– are often considered controversial for the elitist pressures they exert on Washington. One might wonder what an aspiring hockey team owner would want with his own personal roster of ponderous academics. However as suspect –or even megalomaniacal– as this may seem, Ken Coats assures me that Balsillie is not the ‘prototypical Mark Cuban’. Any concern that this billionaire-owned institution might conceal expedient intent can be comforted by its partnerships with both UofW and Laurier and the fact that Balsillie lets the academics run the show. UofTers can thus rest assured that Tad Homer-Dixon is in good hands.
Explaining Acupuncture
So what is it about a traditional medicine practitioner stabbing you with small needles that alleviates pain and cures mild medical conditions? It really depends who you ask. Acupuncturists and their enthusiasts will tell you that acupuncture treats the body as a whole that involves several “systems of function� that are loosely associated with physical organs. Disease and its symptoms are described as a loss of balance between the yin and yang energies which generates a disturbance among the “systems of function�. Treatment of disease, or patterns of disharmony, is attempted by modifying the activity of these systems through the application of needles, pressure and heat on “acupuncture points�. The main energy that acupuncturists attempt to bring back to health is the Qi (pronounced “chee�) energy which is frequently translated as “energy flow�, “air� and “breath�. Holy shit. I can’t write another word on acupuncture unless I find
some sort of empirical evidence that proves this stuff actually cures disease; diseases that I have heard of. And essentially that is the problem with acupuncture, it is a practice based on ancient Chinese faiths that bear no relation to scientific knowledge. Research in the past 20 years has not yet demonstrated that acupuncture is effective against any known disease. So why do so many Canadians swear by acupuncture as a means of curing mild ailments? We l l ,
because it works. “But Tim, you just said there is no scientific explanation as to how it cures mild ailments,� says reader. I know I did, but that is where the placebo effect comes in. When people enter an acupuncturist, most likely on the advice of someone who advocates it (perhaps a celebrity), they become sold on the idea that they are going to be treated; in essence this is the placebo effect of acupuncture. It is the idea that acupuncture is pharmacologically inert but has therapeutic value based on the power of suggestion alone. And think about it, the major symptoms cured by acupuncture are headaches, back pain, and neck pain. All of these ailments are synonymous with stress and no other specific disease. With that said acupuncture helps release many people from the confines of daily, chronic pain so there is clearly a place for it on the spectrum of medicine. You just have to believe.
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the newspaper Interviews the Director of Hart House Theatre’s Criminals of Love By Joe Zabukovec This year Hart House Theatre begins its 2008 season with Criminals in Love, a play by Canada’s own George F. Walker. Beginning on January 16th this ‘dark aggressive comedy’ runs until the 26th. Director Andrea Wasserman is no stranger to Hart House; she has previously played the part of, audience member, actor and –as of last year’s production of Hamlet– director. But Walker is no Shakespeare and I was curious to learn what motivated her to choose Criminals in Love. “It’s not art for art’s sake. After studying a lot of theatre I’ve gotten sick of theatre that seems to be too smart for itself. So, I started thinking where does theatre come from? Why is theatre here? It wasn’t meant to be for upper-classes, it was for communities. So, I really enjoy Walker’s work in that it doesn’t appeal just to artists. Someone who doesn’t know a thing about theatre can come and enjoy it, because there are grenades and bombs. Who doesn’t love that?” The play revolves around two young lovers trapped in an inner-city world of oppression where attempts to ascend from their social caste are frequently pulled into a downward spiral. Although it sounds depressing, it is intended to be a satirical comedy. She noted the length at which she worked to make an epic Hamlet accessible to everyone by using humour and how she has done the same for Criminals. “Some of the saddest moments are in comedies, and I think those saddest moments are funny. Can you imagine going to see Hamlet and sitting through three and a half hours of all sad? Ughh! Go wallow somewhere else!” Wasserman once performed in a Guelph production of Criminals and her familiarity with Walker has made for a comfortable directorial stint. She is confident that this play will appeal directly, or indirectly, to all students. “Everybody can relate to this shit-storm. Particularly this will really relate to students. Most know these people [characters] from their hometown,
Photo by Cat Gomez Andrea Wasserman savouring a coffee break in the HH Theatre lobby these are people they went to high school with and we’ve seen their lives go to shit. We go back for Thanksgiving and it’s like ‘Oh, you’re pregnant, great.’ or ‘Now you’re doing coke, fabulous.’” But what about Toronto in general? “It’s so Canadian; it’s so Toronto. It’s fast-paced, funny, and energetic.” After auditioning over a hundred p e o p l e for six-roles, Wa s s e r m a n says the cast is solid and has cohesively worked together for months in preparation for this run. A Toronto graduate student is playing one of the characters, and she conceded, “All things being equal, people at Hart House
will cast a student –all things being equal”. But really, why should you go see Criminals in Love at Hart House? “There’s grenades, there’s bombs, there’s local music, local kids, there’s sex, there’s hookers –and hot hookers- so to me it’s like Quentin Tarantino on stage.”
President IMGs Are Not Bush’s Former Being Given Speechwriter Equal Comes to Opportunity UofT to be Licensed In Canada
David Frum discusses his recent novel at Hart House on January 23
IMGs cont. from pg. 1 talents go unrecognized. Bharat Bahl, a first-year U of T med student and co-producer at CIUT, observed that the skills of IMG specialists are often undermined as they are forced into general practice: “My own family doctor was originally an a n e s t h e s i o l o g i s t . If they can be our family doctors, why can’t they be our specialists?” With so many unnecessary boundaries and obstacles, it’s no wonder several IMGs find themselves working in alternative professions. There is a feeling that IMGs are not being given equal opportunity to be licensed in Canada. Several non-profit organizations, like the Association of International Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (AIPSO), have been set up to facilitate the licensing process for IMGs. AIPSO is just one of many organizations which puts tremendous faith in the capabilities of IMGs. “Canada is known for being such a charitable nation, welcoming immigrants and refugees,” says Bahl, “so why are we doing so little to welcome foreign-trained doctors who want to practice here?” Ultimately, the Ministry needs to focus less on protecting the interests of Canadian medical students and more on providing equal access to IMGs who wish to make a positive contribution to our health-care system.
By Thom Saczkowski Journalist, author, political advisor, and speechwriter David Frum will be giving a lecture at Hart House on Wednesday, January 23. The lecture is presented by conservative think-tank The Fraser Institute. Frum will be lecturing on his new book, “Comeback: Conservatism that Can Win Again”, which suggests that a new conservative approach can solve many of the current political issues in the United States. Frum has an extensive conservative political background, most notably as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush (we can thank Frum for coining the evocative expression “axis of evil”). Recently, he signed on as a political advisor for Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. Frum stated that he has put his support behind Giuliani because “as a conservative, I know Rudy Giuliani shares my values. As a former New York City taxpayer, I have seen that he respects the dollars entrusted to him. And as a father, I trust him to keep my family safe from threat and danger”. Frum is militaristic and was a strong proponent of Bush’s war on terror. He makes his views on American foreign policy quite clear in the book he wrote with Richard Perle, entitled “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”. Frum’s views have garnered a great deal of controversy and criticism, which is to be expected with some of the things that Frum writes and purports. In An End To Evil he writes of the war on terror that “there is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust”. For some odd reason, this revolutionary book made the New York Times Bestsellers list, but I can only hope that we see it all over used bookstores soon. Following David Frum’s lecture there will be a question and answer period, so I encourage everyone to come out and have either a pleasant conversation with David Frum, or, preferably, launch a fierce debate. This should be exciting.
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presence.Pictured are fleeting images of spirals, humans or mundane objects, which we take for granted in everyday life. In the more ambitious view on the third floor one is confronted with an image of stacked wooden chairs atop two small tables. This is a nod to Hanney and Dade’s work in their Stacked Hotel Room series which also deals with transformations of interior spaces. Tong manages to take a familiar object or action in a familiar or unfamiliar setting and plays with the reality of a fleeting moment captured for the spectator in the permanence of an interactive fixture. This is a clever use of memory in an ephemeral manner. bin-oc-ul-ar continues until January 31st 2008 at Hart House.
Ben Tong Presents His Work At Hart House By Chris Le Page Armed with a floor plan of Hart House I set out on a scavenger hunt of sorts in search of Ben Tong’s site-specific installation bin-oc-ul-ar. The exhibition constitutes six separate pieces over three floors of the building consisting of a chest of drawers surmounted by a thin wooden pole upon which rested a viewfinder, or more precisely a stereoscopic lens. This apparatus brought me back to reminiscences of my childhood in which I would gaze at travel slides on a round disk which would rotate through the lens.
Upon looking through Tong’s imagination one is confronted with the space in front of them in this pubic realm, which is somehow transformed with an alternate
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