cmkl: Michael Ivan Lawson, 1936–2012
My dad was someone you had to work beside to get to know. He wasn’t one to talk about himself. He loved to – had to – keep busy.
View Articlecmkl: Memorial service for Michael Lawson
Friends and family of my father, Michael Lawson are holding a memorial service for him at “the farm” Saturday August 11 at 1pm. All who knew him or know his family are welcome to attend. Please contact...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: How we die in Canada
Statistics Canada maintains a snapshot of how Canadians die. The chart not only gives an indication of how nearly a quarter million of us cast off this mortal coil each year, but suggests where we are...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Canadian vs American Health Care- A View From Both...
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Ian Reid knows the reality of both American and Canadian Health Care systems and his blog and the comments that follow are right on the money. It is called...
View ArticleIlluminated By Street Lamps: ‘Winners’ And Losers In Quebec Asbestos Mess
Photo: Vsmith/Wikipedia Support for Canadian chrysotile asbestos is dead. First point, this: Canada should have gotten out of the asbestos game a long time ago.All asbestos causes cancer. We won’t...
View ArticleScott's DiaTribes: ‘Just Stay’ book details couple’s last journey together...
On this Thanksgiving long weekend, I decided this was a good day to publicize a book that my cousin has just published. It is called “Just Stay”; it details the year and a half journey that she took...
View ArticleThings Are Good: World’s Largest Bra is up for Auction
Today is Wear it Pink Day in the UK, which is a fundraising initiative to fund breast cancer research, and to make this year unique the organizers are auctioning off the world’s largest bra. Anyone can...
View ArticleThings Are Good: Vegetarians Live Longer
If you’re not vegetarian yet, this may change your mind: vegetarians live longer than meat eaters. A plant-focused diet is fantastic at helping people with all sorts of ailments from diabetes to heart...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Did Stephen Harper Just Celebrate Venezuelan Prez...
“Now, the death of Hugo Chavez offers the promise of domestic oil market changes that could roil the energy world and place substantial opportunities at the feet of Canadian oil companies whose...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Alberta Tar Sands Facilities Pollute Athabasca...
By: EcoJustice (Press Release) | Mar 5, 2013: EDMONTON — Ecojustice, armed with research that shows how toxic oilsands emissions are contaminating the Athabasca River, has called on the federal...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: President Hugo Chávez Dies-The Vultures are Circling
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Democratic Socialist Hugo Chavez delivered democracy, human rights and reduced poverty for his citizens. He dared to stand up to the Americans and allied with Cuba. US...
View Articledrive-by planet: Arundhati Roy: Iraq and the ‘psychosis’ of U.S. foreign policy
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. The occasion is upon us with barely a whisper from Washington. Hardly surprising… the legacy of the U.S. invasion has been an Iraq in...
View Article350 or bust: Mother Puts Body On Line to Prevent “Toxic Trespass” From Fracking
* Dr. Sandra Steingraber is a biologist, a mother, and a cancer survivor. She recently went to jail for 15 days after being sentenced for trespassing on a gas compression rig last month owned by the...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: Toxic weedkiller found in EVERY human urine sample...
A recent German study found glyphosate – the active chemical in Monsanto’s widely used Roundup weed killer – in all human urine samples tested – and at levels 5 to 20 times the legal safe limit for...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: The Mole Whisperers: You, Cancer, Sugar & Naked Mole Rats
Cancer free naked mole rats A possible breakthrough in cancer treatment? Time will tell if The Mole Whisperers findings about the “goo” that naked mole rats use to prevent them ever having cancer, can...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Guest Post: How A...
Cameron Von St. James is a husband, father and caregiver. In this guest post, Cameron shares his family story of caring for his wife Heather through her cancer diagnosis and treatment. Thank you,...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Altruism + Community
“It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I’m finished I’m not going to be on the front page, but I’m going to be just as...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: Say sayonara to seafood – the oceans are no longer...
It looks like sushi time is over – seafood is no longer safe to eat after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Fukushima continues to dump 300-400 tons of radioactive contaminated water into the Pacific...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Got Cancer?
9:58 am, pre-run, great fog! Well, Terry Fox did. And millions of other people. You likely know someone who has or had cancer. Maybe you encountered it yourself and went through the #FuckCancer...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Fuck Cancer
Arb and I are now down to only one cat. This is how I’ll remember Lilith Not long after her boneless lying in the sun picture, we started noticing Lilith was losing weight. And then her coat turned...
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