Nov 69 min read
SO WHAT IS THIS ABOUT, EXACTLY?
So what is this fluoride panic about? It’s certainly not about the existing evidence.
Oct 193 min read
IT'S UP TO YOU
I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...
Sep 45 min read
HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
Aug 210 min read
DIRECTIONS
Narendra : They’re not trying to hide anything from you, though. Adrenalina : Aren’t they? Narendra : They would if they could. For...
May 313 min read
MISNOMER
I don’t know how I got here. Somehow I developed this crazy belief that firefighters fought fires. Crazy, right? My bad. Per capita,...
Apr 179 min read
SOLVED
Last September the CMHC came out with a study suggesting that for Canada to reach housing affordability last seen 20 years ago “an...
Apr 175 min read
REDUCTION OR PRODUCTION?
If you’re the chief coroner, hold an executive position in public health, or are the independent representative for children and youth or...
Apr 112 min read
PREDICTING THE FUTURE
On April 12th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld sent George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice and email titled “Predicting the Future.” The...
Apr 26 min read
CREDIT SCORE?
CBC - Federal plan would count rent toward a credit score. Wow. It's almost impossible for me to make sense of the level of detachment...
Mar 518 min read
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Early in the new year is when we get the official tally from the BC Coroners Service for the number of overdose deaths the province saw...
