http://www.calgarysun.com/news/colum.../16556596.html
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Ralph is sick. Real sick.
The former premier, a man most Albertans feel comfortable calling only by his first name, speaks through Rod Love, who has been there with Ralph since day one, 30 years ago.
“Tell Rick, I’ve got emphysema. I’m doing alright,” insists Ralph to Rod to your scribbler.
Two people close to Ralph say he suffers from the serious respiratory disease known as COPD. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. It is a disease with no cure.
Ralph is 68 now and smokes. He’s been smoking since his days as a young teen from a broken home on the mean streets of Tuxedo Park and we’re talking real smoking.
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Hope he pulls through. The best mayor Calgary has ever had.