Fight for your pets’ rights
You can choose to take your child to a homeopath, chiropractor or doctor of Chinese Medicine without a referral from a doctor, but you … Read more
Month: December 2009
No safe levels of radiation
In a recent press release, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission claims to be expert on the subject of “junk science.” I believe it. How … Read more
Privatizing compassion – Squeezing a profit from HandyDART
by Dean Brown A chilling rain falls in the Vancouver night. I sit in a bus outside St. Paul’s Hospital preparing to board a group … Read more
David Suzuki earns Right Livelihood Honorary Award
The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us … Read more
Shaping the body – The crisis in our closest relationship
by Susie Orbac Every day, my inbox, like most people’s, fills with invitations to enlarge the size of my penis or my breasts, to purchase … Read more
IT vs TLC – Electronic medical records? Try listening first
by Marc Ringel, MD illustration by Steve Sedam As far back as you look, the history of science is rife with puzzlement over the relationship … Read more
Pet connections
Finding the balance between compassion and consumption, pets and plate. by Geoff Olson The late American writer Kurt Vonnegut once said his greatest joy in life … Read more
H1N1 pandemic or panic?
Dr. Tom Jefferson’s research is a powerful antidote to rampant bio-evangelism The amount of death and disease would be less if all disease were left to … Read more
by Chris Jordan Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of … Read more