Earth Day Celebrations – Bitter Sweet

The recent Earth Day celebrations had a sad tone this year in our town.  In the face of the wars currently going on in the
Middle East, coupled with the federal and provincial governments currently faking green attitudes, there wasn’t much to feel optimistic about.  There are plenty of reasons for being unhappy with the Conservatives. [...]

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Writing for a Living

I might actually have an entire day off.  Haven’t had one of those in awhile.  The reporter job is taking over my life.  The garden is a mess with tulips coming up through last year’s old stalks.  At least I got my peas, carrots, onions and spinach planted.  That’s a big deal, but there are [...]

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It’s Not Easy Being Green

I’ve been writing quite a lot of ‘green’ stuff as well as health related stuff on this blog and for the paper.  However, I feel a need to explain something:  although I try hard to be ‘green’ in my daily life and eat a well-balanced diet that is low in bad fat and enough good [...]

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Interesterified Fats – The New Poison

Just when Canadians were beginning to feel safe and food companies’ labels proclaimed ‘trans fat free’, a new danger has arisen.  The very foods we may think are free of this poison might contain interesterified fats – even worse than transfats.  The food manufacturers can still proclaim the food is ‘trans free’, while listing ‘canola [...]

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