From the www.healthcanadaabuse.com website, a disturbing account of abuse and a call to action for Canadians whose rights to work with supplements are being threatened. Never in a million years would I expect to be telling fellow Canadians what happened to my family and me. Having a life-time of working for the community, and caring […]
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What Do We Truly Value?
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Your actions speak so loudly, I can’t hear what you’re saying.” A frequent topic of conversation amongst us as human beings is what we value most in life. What do we hold dearest to our hearts? The most common answer is, “My children” or “My family”. Let us take a […]
Maude Barlow and the Global Water Crisis
"The global water crisis is the greatest ecological and humanrights crisis of our time,” says Maude Barlow, the chairperson of the Council of Canadians. Barlow is the author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She cautions that if we don’t quickly change the way we […]
Getting Vocal About Local
In 2005 two Vancouverites, Alisa Smith, and J.B. MacKinnon, decided to eat nothing but local food for one year. The experiment was initially documented in a series, and published online at www.thetyee.ca where it became an instant hit. Smith and MacKinnon’s lovingly written chronicles of finding sustenance close to home was colourful and entertaining, and […]
Pesticides: Learning to Live Without Them
Rachel Carson raised the alarm over pesticide use with her prescient book Silent Spring almost 50 years ago. Although the worst of the toxins: DDT and PCB‘s, have been largely eliminated, world wide pesticide use has soared. Our current system of large scale monoculture is largely unsustainable without the use of these products and even […]