YES! Two smoking cessation aids now part of Ontario Drug Benefit Plan!!
This is great news! When I quit 7 years ago, I used Zyban, the patch, nico-gum… everything I could get my hands on! And they worked! Fortunately, the costs were…
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On the Ontario PCs’ platform
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook (warning: PDF). Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don't know, and I don't think they do, either.According...
On the Ontario PCs’ platform.
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook. Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don't know, and I don't think they do, either.According to this,…
On the Ontario NDP’s 2011 platform.
Okay. The Ontario NDP's platform. The Plan for Affordable Change (warning: PDF). Jeez, focus-group that name much? I'm splitting this into the four areas that the ONDP did in the…
Friday, er, Saturday miscellany
OK. I didn’t get to the Friday Miscellany thing yesterday. My bad. I was golfing in the afternoon – and dodging lightning – and had to work like the dickens…
Mountaintop Removal Mining Linked To Birth Defects
mountaintop-removal-project.jpg Researchers at Washington State University and West Virginia University have released a new report that links an increase in birth defects in Appalachia to the pra...
Rob Ford – Ignorant, mean, or both?
Free nurses? No thanks, says Mayor Rob Ford - Healthzone.caWell, from our knowledge of Ford so far, we know that he is both mean and ignorant.This time, he is turning…
Better Primary Health Care
Health care is expensive no matter where you are and places like Uganda and the USA health care is even more expensive because they don’t have universal health care for…
Hudak’s hopes that we have short memories …
This fall's election in Ontario is going to be pretty exciting if for no other reason than two of the three candidates for Premier represent Hamilton districts. Andrea Horwath represents…
Betty Fox
I’m very sad to say that Terry Fox’s Mom, Betty, has died. Terry was a Canadian hero and so was his Mom. She kept the fight against cancer very much…
David Wins Against Pesticide Goliath
Fellow climate hawk Lori from over at Adventures In Climate Change recently shared how wonderful this new documentary, A Chemical Reaction, is. At the risk of raising the ire of…
Ban Asbestos Mining, Sale, Export
From CanadaCausesCancer.ca a little humour driving home a point: Click on Read or Watch and then Sign the petition.
Health queue jumping
Don’t be surprised at health queue jumping. We have a medico monopoly in all of its aspects. In this type of atmosphere there can be no health truths and no…
War on Drugs
It’s hard to run a country with everyone squawking in your ear about how you have to be just like them, even if they are failures. The war on drugs…
The Social Determinants of Health
(Note: This post contains a portion of the talk that I gave last month at the 16th International Conference of the Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults and Children…
BREAKING: Jack Kevorkian dead
Source: Detroit Free Press. All I can say is, he put forward an issue many of us don't really want to talk about on the agenda.
Pain
UPDATE I’m scheduled for a root canal for tomorrow at 4 pm… would have preferred, like NOW, but dentist dude was booked for the day. In the meantime, I have…
Haydn Makes You Healthy
Well not just Haydn, or classical music for that matter – a recent study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has shown that the greater an individual’s engagement…
Economic Hitman Confesses
This is how I see the economic system of the world operating, and it’s the basis for many of my feelings about the economy in Canada and in Saskatchewan. It’s…
Gender As Afterthought
It’s not so strange to want children to be safe from bullying. It’s also not strange to want children to grow up whoever they want to be. One thing many…