Furry Painkillers
What a difference a pet can make! Imagine recovering from a painful surgery and the doctor orders two doses of pet therapy a day while recovering in hospital. Imagine snuggling up to a soft and purring kitten when you are ailing, lonely, frightened or stressed to the max. Well, it seems that researchers have finally acquired enough 'evidence' to support what we've known for a long time: that

One Homelessness Factor Avoided Like Plague
This story illustrates one major contributing factor to the swelling numbers of homeless in BC. It's constantly avoided by the powers-that-be in this province. Sherry was polite and resolute. I was puzzled. I asked why she was willing to sleep in a parking lot in order to be with her cats. "They've always been with us," Sherry told me. "Even just moving out of the house, one of our cats -

OMG! Female Sexual Dysfunction
So, get ready goils. Here's another Dis-ease being foisted on us by Big Pharma: 'Restless Vagina Syndrome' aka 'Female Sexual Dysfunction'.You are among the "43 percent of American women [who] experience some degree of impaired sexual function," according to a Journal of the American Medical Association article. The FDA’s evolving definition of FSD includes decreased desire or arousal, sexual

Just Be Yourself, Boys.
It seems that young men today are struggling to create a new masculine identity for themselves, one that takes them away from the good 'ole boys idea of a REAL man. And they are brainstorming new ways to be in this post-feminist world. This is about so much more than the 200 men who attended this conference. They are on the front lines, but there are legions of progressive men of all ages, all

Grandfathering
In BC, the CEOs of crown corporations are getting grandfathered salaries. At the opposite end of the economic scale, renters living with disabilities in this province can be denied rent grandfathering. This effectively prevents these long-term, reliable renters from moving to identical, but more accessible, units. Where's the justice?