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This time it’s different

This time it’s different

Jan 3, 2012

by Paul Summerville   Back in May, when our host Martin LeClair got in touch with me about tonight, he asked if I could be a little bit funny and very educational in an economist sort of way. So an economics presentation that’s supposed to be a little bit funny – how about Alan Greenspan apologizing for destroying the American economy? Or how...

Facts on prescription drug deaths and the drug industry

by Terence Young   Terence Young, Member of Parliament for Oakville, Ontario, is the founder and Chair of Drug Safety Canada, a research and public advocacy organization based in Oakville. He has been active in issues related to prescription drug safety since March 2000, after losing his 15-year-old daughter Vanessa to the Johnson & Johnson...

Airport scanners radiation safety tests rigged

by Mike Adams   It can now be revealed by NaturalNews that the TSA [Transportation Security Administration] faked its safety data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public about the safety of such devices. As evidenced by recent events in Washington, we now live in an age where the federal government simply fakes whatever documents, news...

A deadly rush to market

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...

Climate Summit overview

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...