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Healthy Living: Brave new thinking for 2024

Healthy Living: Brave new thinking for 2024

"As a mental-health client who has processed serious drugs and alcohol misuse and lives with acute anxiety, I have transformed my life with pharmacologic intervention and years of behavioural therapy."
Viewpoint: Dry January is worthwhile

Viewpoint: Dry January is worthwhile

"Ask yourself if you are using alcohol as a tool to cope with stressful situations."
Adrian Raeside cartoon: A prescription to improve the health system

Adrian Raeside cartoon: A prescription to improve the health system

Baldrey: B.C.'s health care system is getting more expensive. Here's why

Baldrey: B.C.'s health care system is getting more expensive. Here's why

Will B.C. be able to keep up with the increased demand of its health care system over the next decade? Political columnist Keith Baldrey weighs in.
Cartoon: Shelter situation

Cartoon: Shelter situation

Drop in temperature for qathet region continues this week
Opinion: The sky isn’t falling on Canada’s national debt

Opinion: The sky isn’t falling on Canada’s national debt

We are doing well compared to other countries – around 20 percent of the GDP versus 118 percent south of the border.
Comment: Lessons for Canada in the Carrefour-PepsiCo dispute

Comment: Lessons for Canada in the Carrefour-PepsiCo dispute

Rather than dealing with complaints, Carrefour publicly criticized companies upstream in the supply chain.
Comment: An inclusive community protects the public realm

Comment: An inclusive community protects the public realm

Our community is degraded by public consumption of hard drugs
Monique Keiran: Changes to alcohol-guidelines should be based on science

Monique Keiran: Changes to alcohol-guidelines should be based on science

While more restrictive drinking guidelines would affect the bottom lines of Canadian wineries, breweries, distilleries and others, health must be the priority
Trevor Hancock: Private-sector interests can undermine public health efforts

Trevor Hancock: Private-sector interests can undermine public health efforts

Too often there is a major conflict between public health and large segments of the private sector because they have two very different motivations