The people's briefing note on prescription drugs DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels I was interviewing a hospital physician in Ontario and we were discussing a drug that had recently been approved in Canada to prevent strokes and its potential to cause excessive bleeding. I knew something was wrong with this new drug, but I didn’t know how wrong until I was...

by Brigette DePape   Governments at this year’s climate negotiations in Durban failed to take any meaningful action on climate change, allowing emissions to rise to ever more dangerous levels. But if COP17 was an unprecedented failure, the civil disobedience was an unprecedented success. The text produced at COP17, the 17th Conference of Parties...