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.…
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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…
Finding Common Ground – Health Care
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.
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…
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. .
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…
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…
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 : Industry…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On 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…
ear 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…
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…