Why should the government cover ONLY a drug-and-surgery mantra when the consumer (along with the health care provider and other taxpayers) believes an alternative to be more efficacious (eg acupuncture and herbs)? For this reason I want:1) An end to the medico monopoly via recognition of a vetting, competing health
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An Open Letter To Harper From The Women Of Honduras
OPEN LETTERCholoma, Cortés, August 12, 2011TO:The Right Honourable Stephen Joseph Harper, Prime Minister of Canada;Mr. Porfirio Lobo Sosa, President of Honduras;Mr. Africo Madrid, Secretary of State for the Interior;The International Community;Especia…
Continue readingOn back to work legislation. Whoa, deja vu.
So, another conservative (note the small “c”) government, another round of back to work legislation. Canada violates its international obligations yet again, and is again grouped with such shining lights of liberty as Colombia. It’s the same old song a…
Continue readingOn the Quebec question: (2) Self-determination
Yesterday, I suggested that objections to the definition of a “clear majority” in favour of separation as 50%+1 were insincere, and really masked forms of other objections. The first I want to talk about is the claim that there is something wrong with …
Continue readingHerbinator: Self-determination of Nations
I am glad for the people of Egypt. Self-determination of nations at its best. .
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: 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 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: X-spouse from Hell
I have been reading up on the new 2010 changes to family law in Australia. Apparently significant changes have been made there with respect to family law and child rights.
Specifically, what tickled my fancy was:
A Child Has the Right to Spend Substan…
On cooperatives and housing.
I’ll get back to my electoral series eventually, I swear. But I had this weird idea today and I wanted to spell it out. It’s not an argument; more just thinking out loud. (Well, so to speak. “Speak”.)We don’t have enough housing going to the people who…
Continue readingOn secrecy and Wikileaks.
IntroductionSo, as everyone and their brother’s roommate knows, Wikileaks managed to get their hands on another chunk of material that the powers-that-be would rather the rest of us never saw. This time, of course, it was a collection of documents rela…
Continue readingHerbinator: CSIS influence
Canada’s spy agency suspects that cabinet ministers in two provinces are under the control of foreign governments, CBC News has learned.This sounds very McCarthyesk. I wonder if CSIS is under the influence of an affluent foreign government..
Continue readingHerbinator: Protecting rights
Imposing our values on others: dirty job but somebody has to do it. Perhaps when we are done converting Afghanistan into a fleshier state we can invade the Amazon and convert it to a clothier state. Gotta teach the world how to get the balance right…
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