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…
Health
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…
Democrats pull another one out of the hat
A big surprise in last night's by-election in New York 26 -- the north and eastern suburbs of Buffalo, most of the "southern tier" and the western edge of Rochester.…
Fresh, Local Food in Winnipeg
The University of Winnipeg was once lambasted in the annual MacLean’s ranking of Canadian Universities for having some of the worst campus food in the country (which is saying a…
How to Eat in the Most Obese County in the United States
Let’s start with an appetizer: One thing you need to know before going to the Mississippi Delta is what a Kool-Aid pickle is — and how to make it. 1.…
The Positive Women’s Network Enriches Community Fabric
I’m constantly impressed with the caliber of community cooperation in Vancouver. The Positive Women’s Network is holding a film screening fundraiser on May 26th at 7pm at Vancity Theatre. VIFF…
What You Eat Matters
Jason Schwartzman cares about what you eat. Well, at the very least he has narrated a new short film on the importance of what we eat. The film looks like…
Dear 16 year old Me
One bad sunburn before you are 18 doubles your chance of developing melanoma... This is a very powerful video. I'm showing it to my children, tonight.
John Manley: Forget About Healthcare
Former Minister of Finance (Liberal) John Manley on CBC's Power & Politics today as much as said that he'd like Stephen Harper to scrap the Canada Health Act. (Video) Today…
The Political Economy of Professional Wrestling: Capital, Unions and Spandex
Wage Labour on the Fringes For all the attention it received, to my knowledge, no one provided much of a political analysis of Darren Aronofsky’s 2008 award-winning motion picture The…
The housing problem in the Great White North
Strangely I have had little to say about this year's election in Canada. I can't understand why since there appears to be an actual race and Jack Layton of the…