Expert suggests investing income tax refund in RESP With the average income tax refund at approximately $1,700 according to the Canada Revenue Agency, families with young children ought to be looking at making contributions to a Registered Education Savings Plan to secure their education. Parents with young children can defer paying down the mortgage, springing [...]
Prescription Drug Drop-Off day helps people get rid of outdated, unused prescriptions If you have some old, unwanted prescriptions in your medicine chest that you’ve been wanting to get rid of, the RCMP and Canadian pharmacists remind you of a way to dispose of those unwanted prescription drugs. This Saturday is national Prescription Drug Drop-off [...]
By David Suzuki The David Suzuki Foundation is launching the 30×30 Nature Challenge today — a national campaign to get Canadians outside for 30 minutes a day for 30 days during May. “I urge Canadians to join the 30×30 Nature Challenge,” said David Suzuki, award-winning broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. “Commit [...]
Organ donation patient living full life, refuses to miss out on anything Darvy Culleton was 30 years old when he received the best Christmas gift ever in his life at the Vancouver General Hospital. “It was a double lung transplant,” Darvy says. “I was in pretty rough shape before that – my life was brutal.” [...]
Cst. Tad Milmine speaks in honour of Jamie Hubley, a 15-year old boy who killed himself because he was bullied Cst. Tad Milmine of the North Vancouver RCMP spoke with a group of North Van high school students recently, and offered a personal anti-bullying message to the 550 grade 10 and 11 students at Handsworth [...]
Register for BC Organ Donation online Alysa Samaratunga was 13-years old when the talented gymnast on Team Canada contracted a rare bacterium while wearing contact lenses in a hot tub. The bacterium damaged her cornea and left the girl who wanted to be on the Canadian Olympic gymnastics team blind in one eye. “I had [...]
Big Pharma sales reps generally don’t discuss harmful side side effects By Alan Cassels It sometimes takes a long time to discover environmental hazards and, once discovered, even longer to do something about them. The dangers of second-hand tobacco smoke, leaded gasoline and asbestos were all deemed bad for our health many years ago, [...]
Obese airline passengers shouldn’t be discriminated against By Arya Sharma Last week the wires were active with suggestions that people with obesity pay more for airline travel. This discussion was prompted by a Samoan airline announcing that they would begin charging passengers by the pound. It was also stimulated by Bharat Bhatta, an economist [...]
With construction wrapped up at the end of 2007, Skelhp House’s first house party was the next task We wanted to build with local materials, and with people who knew how to assemble them with the same love of task that went into the architecture of Skelhp House. It made sense to look for a [...]
With construction wrapped up at the end of 2007, Skelhp House’s first house party was the next task We wanted to build with local materials, and with people who knew how to assemble them with the same love of task that went into the architecture of Skelhp House. It made sense to look for a [...]