The colossal hard-won progress in the global fight against AIDS might be lost to defunding and unequal access to care, warned various speakers in the […]
Tag: Health Issues
Why the Canadian government and RCMP owe Ellen Richardson an apology
When you read about the egregious case of Ellen Richardson, a Canadian woman recently denied entry to the US for a vacation, it’s hard to […]
Adam Greenblatt and the privatization of medical marijuana in Canada
Recently, the federal government announced that they were going to ‘privatize’ the medical marijuana industry and they touted their decision as though it were both […]
Bible Belt Prevention: DiAna DiAna talks Curlers and Condoms
There have been many illustrious and influential figures who have brought their stories and work to Concordia’s H110 auditorium for the Lecture Series on HIV […]
Total Recall
Thanks in part to government imposed austerity and corporate influence over our public health officials; we no longer know what we are eating, more importantly we don’t really know if it’s healthy. Government cuts in food inspections, deregulation of industry and corporate greed are keeping us in the dark when we go to the grocery store or the butcher shop
Big Tobacco’s Big Mistake
Few corporate so called legal “persons” are as heartless a big tobacco. When it comes to crushing their opponents, there is no low they won’t stoop to in their legal tactics, or, for that matter, their threats of violence towards whistle blowers (see The Insider, a movie about former tobacco company executive Jeffrey Wigand) and others who dare cross them. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprising when they dispatch a army of high priced lawyers to a small claims court in Rimouski Québec with the intention of scaring the shit out of the plaintiff…
Condom Use Becomes Mandatory in LA-Based Adult Films
The Los Angeles city council recently passed a controversial ordinance requiring all porn performers to wear condoms during film shoots to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The 9-1 vote was a significant victory for the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an organization that has been tirelessly lobbying for years for mandatory condom use in pornography…
Malaria in Montreal…it can happen again
When the Montreal General Hospital first opened in 1823, three percent of the first 3665 medical cases treated were for malaria. Yep, malaria…in Montreal.
Our lovely grey city used to be surrounded by a lot more swamp and marshland than it is now. Cases of malaria stretched from here all the way out to the prairies. And we can still get malaria in Montreal; the host of the malaria parasite is the Anopheles mosquito, who lives here, too.
The decrease in Montreal malaria cases happened because…