A heartfelt thank you to the Heart Institute | Letters to the Editor
The Ottawa Citizen's letters to the editor for Saturday, June 20, 2026
Author of the article: By Nicole Feriancek Published Jun 20, 2026
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A heartfelt thank you to the Heart Institute
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On June 1st, 2026, I suffered a major heart attack and was transferred from Cornwall, Ont. to the Heart Institute in Ottawa, Ont. The moment we arrived, a medical team was waiting at the door for me. They immediately performed an angiogram and installed a stent. Shortly after, I was moved to the ICCU, where I remained for the next 11 days.
I want to acknowledge the expertise and human touch of all the cardiologists and nurses who took such excellent care of me. Please consider this a personal tribute, as you are too numerous to name individually.
I am now recovering in a respite care facility at Chartwell in Cornwall. The Heart Institute is one of a kind, and I will be forever grateful.
May God bless you all! Sincerely, Mme. Suzanne Mailhot, Cornwall
Ottawa’s road/sewer/transit construction management is a sick joke
Mohammed Adam’s recent column urged Ottawans to accept the inconvenience of road construction, which is necessary to accommodate a growing city with aging infrastructure. I agree with him to a point.
The reality of road, sewer, and transit construction management within the City of Ottawa is a sick joke. There are projects clearly planned without due consideration for the availability of necessary skilled personnel, supplies, parts, and equipment. Others seem totally uncoordinated with provincial projects that conflict with them. Too many projects start in May and June of one year and are left coned without any visible progress for weeks or months. Thus, many are unfinished by the end of the construction season in November, deteriorating and remaining a traffic headache over the winter. The notion of traffic management around construction sites would be hilarious if it didn’t contribute to traffic chaos and frustration for drivers, who often receive notice of a lane reduction only at the point of reduction, not before.
Our city administration has been pushing the idea that drivers are scofflaws because of speeding and ill-advised maneuvers. Perhaps they need to look in the mirror and ask what they are doing to contribute to this problem. Surely, the frustration bred by catastrophically badly planned and managed traffic management related to road, sewer, and transit construction projects contributes to the problem.
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The City’s Auditor General does a great job auditing many aspects of city affairs, but the laughably poor coordination and management of road, sewer, and transit construction projects never seems to make the cut. I would say it is way past time, especially as the City Council has just approved an additional $60 million for this kind of work over the next two years.
Peter Webber, Ottawa
Couldn’t agree less
Re: Mohammed Adam’s article on construction delays.
I couldn’t agree less! Ottawa drivers are legitimately complaining about construction work causing traffic delays and mayhem these past few months because of the city’s poor planning. They are doing three construction projects on three major traffic arteries at once, with no work often being done at night or on weekends, and they expect people to detour through residential areas, which they of course have been.
