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Government must do more to address First Nations' water woes | Feb 15 2017 | David Suzuki | The David Suzuki Foundation and Council of Canadians have published a report card rating government progress on its commitment to ending drinking water advisories in nine First Nations in Ontario.
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Five ableist things I wish people would stop saying to me | Feb 14 2017 | Liz Kessler | "Normalcy" isn't possible, and it's not the goal, so trying to reassure me that I seem normal is useless.
Robert Osborne talks about addiction, making choices and the Fentanyl epidemic.
Robert Osborne talks about addiction, making choices and the fentanyl epidemic in Canada | Feb 1 2017 | Face2Face | Robert and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film "Unstoppable," addiction, making choices and the fentanyl epidemic in Canada.
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Plastic and capitalism are killing ocean life | Jan 31 2017 | Yves Engler | The world's oceans are set to have more plastic than fish by 2050. Based on externalizing costs and privatizing profits, 21st-century capitalism is turning our seas into a plastic blob.
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Agriculture is part of the climate change solution | Jan 24 2017 | Lois Ross | Agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it is going to mean putting stewardship and food production ahead of profit and expansion. It is possible.
Image: Wayne Roberts
Rethinking revolution on the centenary of the Russian Revolution | Jan 17 2017 | Wayne Roberts | If I can't eat local, sustainable and slow food, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Image: Wikimedia Commons/Tom Varco
Canada is wasting billions of dollars a year on prescription drugs | Jan 16 2017 | Redeye Collective | A national pharmacare program would save the health-care system billions and improve the health of the one in 10 Canadians who can't afford the medication they are prescribed.
Photo credit: Kristen Fahrig
On wildness: Community and control in urban green space | Jan 13 2017 | Ava Lightbody | The wild and wayward life of a tiny, disproportionately lively square of parkland in Toronto's west end has a lesson to teach us about the rewards of relinquishing control.
Image: Will Fisher/flickr
'Giving the people what they couldn't possibly want': Notes from Ontario's homecare system | Jan 12 2017 | Julie Devaney | The argument for home care was that it was giving the people what they want. So why are patients now being asked to leave their homes to access care after being discharged from hospitals?
Image: Flickr/Tylor Sherman
Epidemic of overdose deaths legacy of 10 years of anti-harm reduction | Jan 12 2017 | Redeye Collective | Jordan Westfall says the hundreds of drug overdose deaths are a legacy of Harper's approach. Westfall is someone who formerly used opioid drugs and wrote his master's thesis on overdose prevention.
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The battle of Romeo Dallaire's life may not be Rwanda after all, but PTSD | Jan 10 2017 | Gerry Caplan | With a new book due to be published soon, it may be that Gen. Romeo Dallaire's long battle with PTSD may be turning a corner.
Getting on -- and getting over the ageism that comes with it | Jan 9 2017 | J. Baglow | Ageism is no joke. Take it from me.

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Renegotiating medicare's exemptions under NAFTA Kaspar Hauser said... Thomas Walkom believes that Medicare is up for grabs in NAFTA renegotiations: https://www.thestar....
UN urges action on antibiotic resistance Doug Woodard said... UN urges action on antibiotic resistance: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/09/...
Trudeau government and health care funding mark_alfred said... NDP report that the Trudeau government is going to make massive cuts to health care transfers. http...
Alberta mother's battle puts spotlight on First Nations medical care rejections mark_alfred said... Alberta mother's battle puts spotlight on First Nations medical care rejections   Quote:An...
Buy French's ketchup instead of Heinz mark_alfred said... Seems Heinz just up and left, screwing over the workers and farmers in Leamington Ontario. ...
where can i find a psychiatrist in Toronto? monty1 said... In B.C. a M.D. would refer you to a psychiatrist. If you've been told that you don't need one then...
where can i find a psychiatrist in Toronto? takeitslowly said... sorry double post. please delete, moderator. in
"Re-dating" expired bakery products ... and meat at grocery chains laine lowe said... I heard about this yesterday morning and was thoroughly disgusted that these businesses would put...
What will Trudeau's promised Canada Health Accord look like? mark_alfred said... Good article on Rabble by Brent Patterson, the political director of the Council of Canadians. What...
Drug Policy Doug Woodard said... Portugal 14 years after decriminalizing heroin: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/portugal-cuts-...

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