Another View of Cancer. Paid for by the Federal Government.
In today’s local newspaper, I noticed a tiny article about a new site for cancer called http://www.cancerview.ca.
I poked around for a minute or two and then clicked on the “About this Site” link and see that it’s a federally funded site, which appears to link (or tries to link) all the Canadian cancer sites together.
My first thought is do we really need another cancer site? And in this economy, do we really need to see our tax dollars going to this type of web site? If someone doesn’t know how to use a search engine or the Blue Pages of their phone book, they are certainly not going to know how to find this new web site.
Dear Prime Minister: please stop funding these fringe web sites that no one will ever use — cancer may be in all our communities, but I don’t need a “community of cancer [victims or survivors]” in order to feel like I belong somewhere.
It would be nice if all web sites funded partially or wholly through federal tax grants would link to each other, rather than throw money at something new that should be an automatic courtesy.
Oh, for a few dollars more, I’m surprised that no one thought of registering cancerviews.ca (the plural) since it appears to be available as well — it’s an extra few bucks and could easily be redirected to the correct site.
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