Marjorie’s Welfare Food Challenge – Day 1
By Marjorie MacDonald Because I had forgotten to sign up for the challenge in advance I did not do any real preparation. This was a huge mistake. I had not…
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The Welfare Food Challenge
By Marjorie MacDonald Last year about this time, I was at a research team meeting in Richmond that included several academic researchers from various BC universities and representatives from each…
Ethical healthcare in British Columbia
By Ted Bruce I read with interest the article in The Tyee by Christine Boyle and Seth Klein entitled Imagining a Moral Economy for British Columbia. The article laid out…
Healthy Corporate Citizen Award
Corporations are an ever increasing part of our lives not just through the products and services they produce and provide, market and sell but through their involvement in shaping society…
Income Inequality “No Big Deal” according to Economists
By Diana Daghofer In North America, the Occupy movement cast the spotlight on an issue that has been the focus of grave concern around the world – income inequality. So…
Need We Say More
By Ted Bruce Need we say more? Apparently yes. The evidence on the impact of low income on health such as that described by Dr. Patricia O’Campo just keeps piling…