By Peter W. Rusland Peter Rusland-Contributor Tears and heartfelt memories followed Cowichan Valley Hospice’s passionate plea for the regional board to help local folks die with dignity in a purpose-built palliative-care facility. Hospice’s Read more…
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Things Are Good: Be Healthy by Getting Dirty
Hygiene is harming us. The overuse of antibacterial everything and the kill-all solution of antibiotics seems to be doing harm to us. Don’t get me wrong – we need antibiotics and antibacterial solutions. The thing is that we’ve used them too much. The good news is you don’t have to
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program. I realize Canada has never been totally equal on social programs.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program. I realize Canada has never been totally equal on social programs.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program.
I realize Canada has never been totally …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Don’t match donations during an election!
Maybe it’s me, but it seemed like awful timing when the Cons announced last week they were going to match donations to this year’s Terry Fox Run, up to a ceiling of $35 million. Today, they retracted the pledge – for now. Awful timing, of course, because we’re smack in
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Don’t match donations during an election!
Maybe it’s me, but it seemed like awful timing when the Cons announced last week they were going to match donations to this year’s Terry Fox Run, up to a ceiling of $35 million. Today, they retracted the pledge – for now. Awful timing, of course, because we’re smack in
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Don’t match donations during an election!
Maybe it’s me, but it seemed like awful timing when the Cons announced last week they were going to match donations to this year’s Terry Fox Run, up to a ceiling of $35 million. Today, they retracted the pledge – for now. Awful timing, of course, becau…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Intransigent CPAP Evangelist
Do you snore? Get tested for sleep apnea. I (used to) snore. Loudly. One time, when I fell asleep before Arb, he took his phone and recorded me snoring, then played it back in my ear until it woke me up. It was ghastly. I also used to be incredibly
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: Vote for a better, cleaner Canada
David Suzuki sees climate change as the biggest threat to Canadians’ health and security, urges voters to elect MPs who will be part of the solution when the go to the polls on October 19. The post David Suzuki: Vote for a better, cleaner Canada appeared first on The Canadian
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jordan Brennan details (and expands on) how corporate tax cuts have served solely to further enrich the people and businesses who already had the most: (F)ar from improving economic outcomes, there is evidence to suggest that corporate income tax reductions depressed Canadian GDP
Continue readingThings Are Good: India Drastically Reduces Deaths from Tetanus
India has an amazingly large population and I can only imagine the challenges with delivering health care to that many people. India has it somewhat figure out and they keep getting better at it. Recently the country has reduced the number of deaths from tetanus to an all time low
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Addictions and Mental Illness
Watched a TED talk about addiction, and then heard the same concepts being discussed in this Regina news story about a man who committed suicide last week.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Elect Harper = Kill Medicare for Good
#HeaveSteve THIS is how much the Harper Conservatives resent, hate and want to kill Medicare with a slow, painful death [starting with a $36 billion cut]…leading to for-profit healthcare where the rich are OK, the companies are brutally profitable and the middle class and poor go bankrupt or die from
Continue readingExcited Delirium: On Harper’s War on (the Wrong) Drugs
Prescription drugs are the REAL drug problem in Canada. Stephen Harper won’t accept this because drug companies help keep him in power.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Fashion Will Sacrifice Your Body
As I’ve written previously, The Fashion and I don’t get along. The last time I focused on how The Fashion aims primarily to destroy your self-image in order to then save it in exchange for your money. Today let’s look at one of the many ways The Fashion is willing to
Continue readingScripturient: Strat Plan Part 5: Healthy Lifestyle
I suppose we can all agree that a healthy lifestyle is better than an unhealthy one. And to a certain degree, a municipality can help residents choose a healthier one or at least give them opportunities to pursue it. But you have to ask just how seriously committed a municipality
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: 11 Weeks of Daily Harper Protests
The Harper Re-election Disaster Bus Totalitarianism: daily, for 11 weeks! Get used to this. People hate Harper and his Conservatives. We will see through his weak attempt to wedge oppositions parties by running a long election campaign because he has more money to spend. Saturation will come fast. We will
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neigbourhood
Richard HughesPolitical Blogger So many of us check our email while still half asleep and the coffee is being made, I am no different in that regard. It can be uplifting, depressing or hilarious. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Martyn Brown: Christy Clark’s boon to Big Oil
Richard Hughes Martyn Brown’s excellent assessment of the BC Liberals manifest incompetence and devil may care attitude shows how they were duped into what can only be described as a complete and utter abdication Read more…
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