The Greens are asking all parties to clearly state support for the five principles of the Canada Health Act: public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, and accessibility.
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openalex: New Landmark Greenroof for Montreal
Montreal is set to build a new landmark green roof on it’s eccentrically colored convention center. This summer the Palais des Congrès de Montreal – better known for being clad is huge swaths of neon multicolored glass – will be inaugurating a $20…
Continue readingHerbinator: Cancer is common.
Fourteen percent of people who have a heart attack will get cancer within three years. Just thought I would relay this statistic. .
Continue readingDemocratic Progress: Salt (No, not the Movie)
Well, great news from the Globe and Mail today, as the government is getting rid of people advocating getting salt out of our diets so they can be replaced with industry shills. This, by the way, is exactly the kind of thing government needs to be doin…
Continue readingHerbinator: Measles
I just watched CBC’s wonderful “fart in the mist”-sized Wendy Mesley do a measles-oriented video piece on Autism and the MMR Vaccine. The piece was quite good (as compared to the hatchet job Marketplace did on Homeopathy). My criticism is that it was done from the context of the monopoly
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Brewery Lobby in Full Force
The big brewery lobby has managed to find a friend in the National Post.
Recently, regulations would require the beer industry to include allergens on their beer labels [National Post, Beer makers protest proposed allergy warning labels]:
Industry opp…
The Progressive Right: Portugal — Drug Experiment
Portugal must be a social conservative’s worst nightmare.
For one, they decriminalized possession of narcotics ten years ago, increased treatment for addiction and targeted their criminal prosecution efforts solely on distribution and trafficking. [D…
Continue readingHerbinator: The force (of the inquisition) is strong, ObiWan.
Women are inferior. Conservatives are criminals. Homosexuals are sinners. Catholics are doomed to hell. Homeopathy is sham. What! Hold on! Homeopathy is a sham? (Nod to Woodshed for the opening-line inspiration.) I’m a little surprised at the degree of medico bigotry rearing its ugly head wrt homeopathy. I can understand
Continue readingHerbinator: Margarine, healthy yet again.
Holly shit! Margarine (aka shortening and hydrogenated oil) is a health food again. Two little babies, lying in bedOne was sick and the other ‘most deadSent for the doctor and the doctor said“Give those children some shortnin’ bread.” Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin’, short’nin’,Mammy’s little baby loves shortenin’ bread. Probably
Continue readingHerbinator: Homeopathy and CBC’s Marketplace
I watched CBC’s Marketplace show on homeopathy entitled Pro or Con. It was a hatchet job. I am no believer in homeopathy. Still, I do not show distain for those choosing it in health matters. Choice in health care is a fundamental human right which has been severely suppressed in
Continue readingOn Mental Health
This past week, a man by the name of Steven Michael Kokotec was taken to hospital for psychiatric reasons, and after being released, he jumped off a ten story parking garage, killing himself. On December 23, another patient, Margaret Draskovich, walked…
Continue readingear pain today, brains tomorrow
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledgeKhalil GibranThere are things that seem to sneak up and make you say what the hell? How does that happen? Why? And these things are beyond sensical…like how does an almost 60 year old do the splits…and why do…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Dinner is Nearly on the Table
Last week I received a query from a pregnant woman who saw a documentary called ‘ Earthlings’. The video upset her so much that she asked how to embrace a vegan diet.
Her request got me to thinking that others would benefit after viewing this. It ma…
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Dinner is Nearly on the Table
Last week I received a query from a pregnant woman who saw a documentary called ‘ Earthlings’. The video upset her so much that she asked how to embrace a vegan diet. Her request got me to thinking that others would benefit after viewing this. It may influence them into
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Dinner is Nearly on the Table
Last week I received a query from a pregnant woman who saw a documentary called ‘ Earthlings’. The video upset her so much that she asked how to embrace a vegan diet. Her request got me to thinking that others would benefit after viewing this. It may influence them into
Continue readingHerbinator: Fluoridation, again
Calgary may once again have a chance to get added fluoride out of our water supply. I found this to be a good site arguing against fluoridation. I don’t have much to add except that I’ve noticed that ALL the countries with longer life expectancies (the gold standard in health
Continue readingHerbinator: Herbal Medicine may be risky for kids
Herbal medicine may be risky for kids, says a CBC headline. “Perhaps the most serious harm occurs when effective therapies are replaced by ineffective alternative therapies,” he said. “In that situation, even an intrinsically harmless medicine, …
Continue readingHerbinator: Control Group
I want somebody to pay me a million bucks to state the obvious. I can prove that black is darker than white, for example. Or that cars can go faster than turtles. Or that a “Healthy diet tied [is] to longer life in 70s” … oh, wait, somebody did that …
Continue readingHerbinator: Savage Review of Alberta Health Care
Enlightened Savage wanted some debate on these points.
Not enough experienced and trained medical professionals, incl. family doctors
Misuse/overuse of the system for non-essential services
Lack of care for the poor
Limited access to non-trauma Urgen…
75 per cent of women think their vaginas are ugly
New research in Australia has emerged that has found that the vast majority of women in Australia think of their vaginas as unattractive. And that’s putting it lightly. In a survey of nearly 800 Australian women (read: large, credible sample size), nearly half of all respondents said they had considered or would consider cosmetic genital […]
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