Reading Time: 4 minutes The only meaningful decision pits one U.S. agency – the EPA – against another – the State Department
Month: February 2015
Walmart plan to increase wages an act of brilliance
Reading Time: 3 minutes But fast-food industry – including McDonald’s – won’t be following in its footsteps any time soon
Canadians now have the human right to be killed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Supreme Court’s assisted-suicide decision a perversion of human rights
Getting a grip on the risks of vaccination
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the case of MMR vaccination, doing nothing is the more dangerous choice
US middle class shifting to GOP
Reading Time: 3 minutes While bad news for Democrats, predicting US political realignment is a tricky business
It’s time to talk about end of life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most of us do not have the means of providing palliative care for our loved ones
Not even the Supreme Court is above the law
Reading Time: 3 minutes Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary reminds us to kneel to no one
Coke ‘milking’ healthy choices
Reading Time: 3 minutes With profits falling, the soft drink company is marketing a ‘better’, ‘healthier’ milk
Dying badly a fact of life in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes A lack of proper palliative care could lead to increases in requests for assisted suicides
The risk of turning healthy people into patients
Reading Time: 3 minutes The over-treatment of risk factors for heart attacks and strokes is doing more harm than good