Closure of sex infection clinics may leave people at risk
Nurses in BC’s Interior are decrying the closure of the five public health clinics that test and treat sexually transmitted infections (STI). The decision by the Interior Health Authority (IHA) has shocked public health nurses in the region who are struggling to understand how officials could choose to cut these services to already vulnerable populations. […]
New seniors housing project officially under construction
Dignitaries and local residents gathered to celebrate the ground breaking at Grand Forks’ newest seniors housing development, Silver Kettle Village, on Tuesday. Boundary-Similkameen MLA John Slater was joined by Grand Forks Mayor Brian Taylor, Golden Life Management’s CEO Endre Lillejord and Interior Health Authority (IHA) representatives in the ceremonial ground breaking for the residential […]
KENYA: Food security concern as farmers change crops to coffee production
ELDORET, 23 November 2011 (IRIN) - The switch by many farmers in Kenya's Rift Valley province from staple cereals to more profitable coffee is likely to increase the country's dependence on grain imports and possibly affect food security, agricultural experts have warned."It is unsafe to use our land for crops with the hopes...
Study: Today's teenagers may be most out-of-shape in history
A report from Northwestern University in Chicago looks at the status of the cardiovascular health of current adolescents in the United States, and its findings were not encouraging. It says that teens today have a higher likelihood of dying at a younger age than today’s adults. The causes listed include high blood sugar, obesity, poor […]
The West Kootenay Food System: An exciting economic Development Opportunity
After many months of research, interviews and discussion, the much anticipated first step towards what will hopefully become a regional food system alliance for the West Kootenay is now complete. In April of this year, funding and support was secured to carry out research into organizations in Canada and the United States which are seeking […]
School pizza is a vegetable? U.S. Congress thinks so
By Jonathan Mariano, Triple Pundit Last week, U.S. Congress passed a bill that allegedly labels pizza as a vegetable in school lunches. How did pizza spontaneously become a vegetable? Has it always been considered a vegetable? Was it Congress? Was it the USDA? Some report it is because of lobbyists. Although lobbyists do play an […]
Radon forum in Nelson
It is a radioactive gas that is colourless, odourless and tasteless and it might be hiding in your basement. Radon is formed by the breakdown of uranium, a natural radioactive material found in soil, rock and groundwater especially in the Castlegar and Nelson areas. When radon is released from the ground into the outdoor air, […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder: How to minimize it early on
After waking up last Saturday morning to a brilliant blue sky after all that new snow on Friday, I couldn’t help but jump out of bed and go for a cross-country ski up at Paulson. I still hadn’t had enough of that sunshine, so, I went for a back-country ski on Sunday afternoon up at […]
Programs support eating local year-round
Interior Health residents are getting the message: locally grown food is better for your health, the environment and the local economy. Attendance is up at farmers’ markets, gardens are becoming more popular and people are paying attention to where their food is grown. Now that winter is on the way, can we still eat locally? […]
Snack on that! Are insects the future of food?
By Gavin Haines It might not be the shrewdest observation made by a journalist, but snail poo stinks. Of course you can’t smell it when one of them goes to the toilet in your pansy beds but in large quantities, the stuff reeks. My visit to Dorset Escargot, a commercial snail farm near Wimborne, was […]
