Julie Lyons of Halifax marked the first anniversary of her life-saving heart transplant this week, just in time for Monday's kickoff of National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week. Two years ago, Julie's congenital heart disease grew so severe she needed a Left Ventricular Assist Device, a mechanical pump implanted in her heart, and powered by a 10-pound pack of batteries that had to be changed every four hours. Last April, the pump became infected. Overnight, Julie shot to the top of the national heart transplant list. She had only days to live. Today, Julie has resumed her passion for gardening, she skated...

21 April, 2012

Bruce Wark, writing from an HRM neighborhood where the ban on overnight parking is not enforced, critiques my critique of the ban: [Y]ou use "reasonable accommodation" as though you have proved it. It is as though you are saying that your assertion in the first paragraph is sufficient to support what you're saying in the second. The rules of logic say that he who asserts must prove. Furthermore, your assertion that "traffic tsar" Ken Reashor "evinces no interest in reasonable accommodation" is a neat, but logically unconvincing way of first, labelling Reashor as a Russian dictator, then glossing over necessary proof...

24 January, 2011