Medicating children and adolescents
How bad science sells bad drugs to kids by Robert Whitaker • If we want to understand how our society may end up deluded about … Read more
Month: February 2013
Enbridge Pipelying hearings
by Reimar Kroecher • The Gateway Joint Review panel has come to town and left again. I was one of the hundreds of official interveners … Read more
Wonder drug headlines mislead
DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels • The people’s briefing note on prescription drugs In my inaugural column in this magazine almost eight years ago I … Read more
A natural products regulatory cliff
Open letter to the natural health community, the Canadian public, CHFA board and members, retailers, manufacturers, by authors who request anonymity due to concerns they … Read more
Seralini and science: an open letter
Scientists critique the corruption of science by special interests • Although impartiality is fundamental to science, scientific inquiry itself has always been vulnerable to manipulation … Read more
Why the world doesn’t end
Renewal in times of loss by Michael Meade • To be alive at this time means to be exposed to the raw forces of nature … Read more
The machine’s embrace
by Geoff Olson • Years ago I read a fantasy short story – I’ve long since forgotten the author’s name – that begins with … Read more
What do Indians want?
by Thomas King • Thomas King is one of Canada’s premier Native public intellectuals. For the past 50 years, he has worked as an activist … Read more
An inspiring legacy
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki • Last year ended on a sad note, with the accidental drowning death of Rebecca Tarbotton in Mexico, at 39 … Read more
West of Memphis
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead • When the hog-tied, naked bodies of three eight-year-old boy scouts were discovered at the bottom of a ditch … Read more