Restaurants Should List Allergens
Kudos to Ontario’s NDP for this, but it’s not enough to force chain restaurants to simply list caloric content with their menu items. All restaurants (chain, small, fancy and otherwise)…
Health
Lose Weight the Geeky Way
Weight Hacker is a website and book that focus on losing weight in a very geeky way. The creator of weight hacking writes about geeky things all the time and…
Dieting made easy
Now I have been seeing a lot of people statuses on Facebook about wanting to lose weight. I’m not an expert at all; however I felt that like it might…
Blast Furnace Canada Blog 2012-05-02 20:15:00
So today, a former exec at Ornge ™ was disputing the idea that her rapid rise from an ex-lifeguard to a top executive position there had nothing to do with…
Are Canadian Women Also Radical Enemies of the State?
In an orgy of axe swinging and program bludgeoning last week, the federal government set their sights on taking a clean shot at the health and well-being of Canadian women.…
Public Policy: The Big Opportunity For Health Record Data
A few weeks ago Colin Hansen – a politician in the governing party in British Columbia (BC) – penned an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun entitled Unlocking our data to…
Let’s Have an End to People Dying at Work
Ben Isitt is a Victoria city councillor, historian, professor, lawyer and optimist. Rarely have I been so moved by an account of the struggle working people have in the face…
A Handmaid’s Tale: Intended as Fiction, Not a Guidebook
I have become very weary of being perpetually assaulted, all day long, and being utterly helpless to defend myself from the onslaught. If it isn’t advertisers shoving things I don’t…
Coal Train to Boardman: EPA Warns of "Significant" Public Health Threats in Northwest Coal Export Proposal
110326007Paul_K_Anderson_Coal-copy1.jpg As demand for coal in the United States has cooled off in recent years, coal mining companies have been scrambling to deliver their dirty loads to customers abroad. But…
The rest of the story
Monday’s Lakeland sawmill tragedy provides evidence that British Columbia’s hospitals are routinely stressed to the breaking point and incapable of responding adequately to a major emergency. Monday’s sawmill fire resulted…
A shooter designed for Ottawa!
First off, I can’t take credit for this idea. It came from the truly inspired mind of a colleague. Hats off to him! Take two parts of this: And one…
A good thing to throw some dollars at…
Dennis is an old friend of mine. He is asking for support for his son Xander who will be walking 5 km this year in the CN Cycle for CHEO.…
A Genetic Justification For Liberalism
It’s little wonder that liberalism endorses science when no other ideology is more endorsed by it. Foundational liberal principles have been recently strengthened by new research, solidifying the ideology not…
Boycott the National Headshot League (#NHL)
Before I get into my increasingly radical antipathy towards the NHL and NHLPA and their callous disregard for brain injury risks, I’d like you to spend a few moments watching…
Who’ll clean up Hamilton Airport now?
Just when we thought that it couldn’t get much worse for public health in Hamilton, indeed across the country — yup, it’s gotten worse. In December of last year, I…
Diet for a dying planet
And You Thought It Was Just ‘Pink’ Slime, Lena Groeger, ProPublica
Surrogacy & Prostitution, or Neither
Paying to use a woman’s body for sex is legal in Canada, while paying to use a woman’s body to give birth isn’t. There is no law in this northern…
My daughter died while being delivered on Friday afternoon
Evangeline, my daughter, died while being delivered on Friday. My girlfriend’s water broke last Tuesday, while Evangeline was in her 22nd-week. The doctors and nurses at the Ottawa General did…
More problems with Ornge
This week it was learned that there could be a nasty side effect (no pun intended) to the scandals that have plagued Ornge, the air ambulance service. Hamilton could lose…
Guest Post: New Progressive Narrative
Today, I’m please to allow fellow progressive Jared Milne write a guest post about how the progressive movement should change the course of the debate between progressives and the right…