Tough times for northern water quality
The Mackenzie River system winds over 4,000 kilometres through northern Canada. It is the second longest river system in North America, after the Mississippi, and…
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Going green into the red
By far the most wonderful thing about the environmental movement is that it may allow our children to avoid simultaneously drowning and being mauled by…
Canadian mining companies
On Oct.13, 2010, I watched as 33 miners were successfully rescued from the collapsed mine near Copiapó, Chile. Seeing these miners stuck 700 metres below…
Fighting the tar sands
There is growing opposition to the production and use of oil sands — also known as the tar sands — both within Alberta and nationally….
Introducing orthorexia nervosa
I think about food a lot. I think about how food affects my body and how I feel when I eat things. I like to…
Thin was not always in
Disordered eating has long been a byproduct of affluent societies. In places where food was no longer considered a scarcity, its consumption was calculated and…
Are you addicted to food?
When you hear “eating disorder,” does your brain flash to an image of an emaciated ballerina hiding uneaten food in her closet? This is the…
Who wouldn’t want a Coffee Crisp?
When we think about how disordered eating is being challenged in media, we often think about all the work that is going into campaigns, ads…
Take responsibility for your own health
I was in Colorado when I first got hit with this wave of dieting fads and “health interest.” As far as I can tell, this…
Oh, Count Chocula
How has it come to this? Between movies like Twilight and TV shows like The Vampire Diaries, the modern vampire appears more daft than horrific….