Drawing the line
The best editorial cartoonists in Canada gather in Québec by Geoff Olson • Dave Rosen knows a thing or two about humour. In 2011, the … Read more
Month: August 2012
What is Health Canada up to?
by Nick Mancuso • Since 2010, over 20,000 herbs, vitamins and food supplements have been removed from shelves in natural health stores across Canada. In … Read more
Shingles vaccine stats misleading
Watch out for the marketing spin DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels The people’s briefing note on prescription drugs • Judy M., who lives in Victoria, … Read more
Ecocide was to be the 5th Crime Against Peace
– UN documents by Polly Higgins • Imagine my surprise when a journalist called me a year ago to ask for my comment on the … Read more
Thank you all!
The Walk for Peace was a huge success! Photo and article by Alastair Gregor • On Saturday, June 30, approximately 2,000 Walkers for Peace met … Read more
Teens travel to India to study with the Dalai Lama
by Michele Hall • Vancouver’s Teen Journey is heading to India to study with the Dalai Lama. After four years of life-changing programs where young … Read more
Join Kirtan Vancouver on August 18
• Kirtan is one of the oldest yoga traditions of the world. It is a call-and-response chanting genre that helps us connect with ourselves, focus … Read more
Lakes research next to be nixed
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki • We can’t live without clean water. Canada is blessed with an abundance of lakes and rivers and has a … Read more
China’s one-fingered artist
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead • It’s easy to forget that many Chinese teenagers know nothing about the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989; just … Read more
Quiet your busy mind
UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young Have you ever been listening to a song and it suddenly became so irritating you had to flip to the … Read more