Cannabis with your coffee? Ontario could have thousands of pot retailers
Sep 18, 2018 12:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Legalized cannabis is just a month away, but Ontario wont have any cannabis stores until April. Thats due to the provinces recent decision to have cannabis outlets run by businesses rather than a government agency,...
How to 'love-craft' your relationships for health and happiness
Sep 13, 2018 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
You know how to find happiness: Just meet Prince Charming (or Cinderella), overcome all obstacles, get married. The end. Sure, we kind of know real life doesnt work like that. And yet this romantic story remains right...
Flu plane: are we really ready for a global pandemic?
Sep 10, 2018 14:12 pm UTC| Health
An Emirates airliner was quarantined at John F Kennedy International Airport on September 5 after several passengers reported flu-like symptoms. Oxiris Barbot, New York Citys acting health commissioner, said the cause of...
LEDs could be harmful to health – the EU halogen ban will make it worse
Sep 10, 2018 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The European Union recently announced a ban on halogen light bulbs, to persuade the public to switch to LED lamps. Its unlikely to raise many eyebrows. There are, after all, lots of different lamps on the market. Some...
Food price hikes of £2 billion due to extreme weather are completely avoidable – here's how
Sep 10, 2018 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Extreme hot and cold weather in the UK will have driven up average household food prices by 45m a week in 2018, according to recent research from the Centre for Economic and Business Research. Cue numerous press articles...
Do blind people have better hearing?
Sep 10, 2018 14:07 pm UTC| Health
The sensation of sound occurs when the vibrations from sounds enter our ear and cause little hairlike structures called hair cells within our inner ear to move back and forth. The hair cells transform this movement into...
NAFTA negotiations may threaten pharmacare
Sep 10, 2018 13:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Around 91 per cent of Canadians want a national pharmacare plan, according to a recent national poll, so they dont have to choose between buying groceries or paying for drugs to keep them healthy. The same public...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects