Scandal taints BC Ministry of Health’s Pharmaceutical Services Division
Ministry of Health carpet-bombs drug safety monitoring The tragedy of Roderick MacIsaa by Alan Cassels image by Anthony Freda • Unanswered questions around the death … Read more
Month: April 2013
Label GMO Foods
I-522: The People’s Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act • Labelitwa.org is an anti-GMO activist organization that has put together a piece of legislation … Read more
Where are the dead bodies, Health Canada?
by W. Gifford-Jones M.D. • Do you know that every day 290 North American citizens are killed by prescription drugs? To kill the same number … Read more
Democracy, for a change
by Joyce Murray • When news broke that a by-election was imminent in Labrador following the resignation of Peter Penashue – the disgraced Conservative MP … Read more
Judy Collins: both sides now
by Bruce Mason • The voice on the line is soothing, eerily familiar and deservedly famous – the unmistakable crystal soprano Bill Moyers once … Read more
Whatever happened to the promise of leisure time?
Art and text by Geoff Olson • You might see one or two at a collector’s fair or antiquarian bookshop: dog-eared copies of Popular Science … Read more
Water and food first
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki • Despite its huge area, Canada has relatively little dependable farmland. After all, a lot of our country is rock … Read more
Time to revolt
FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead • Rob Stewart is the underwater filmmaker who, with Sharkwater, showed everyone it’s safe to go back in the … Read more
Speak your truth
UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young • Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. – Mahatma Gandhi Something that … Read more