CONTENTS
1) Two Offices/Treatment Rooms for Rent in Vancouver’s Pacific Institute of Reflexology
2) Issues Updates
-- Terminator Seed Ban Act Needs Your Support
-- Thousands of Canadians Poisoned by Pesticides Each Year
-- Trends in the Canadian Lumber Industry, 1995 to 2006
3) Media Watch
-- Alternative Medicine a Taxing Issue
-- Canada’s Government Invests $721,000 in Natural Health Products
-- Drug Spending Tops $25 Billion
-- Organic Farms Booming in Canada
-- Organic Food Still Leaves Environmental Footprint: Study
-- Organic Food Miles Offset Benefits, Canadian Study
-- Canadian Organic Food Sales Grow Past $1 Billion
-- Demand for Local Produce Increases in BC
-- Organic Regulations Will Benefit Consumers: Expert
-- Why Working Less is Better for the Globe
-- Rules on GM-free Food Relaxed as Europe Lowers the Purity Standard
-- GM Crops: “Point of No Return in Ten Years”
-- Scientists for a GM-free Europe
-- Monsanto Moves to Tighten Control Over Latin America
-- Food Wrappers May Be Overlooked Source of Perfluorochemicals
-- Fluoride: A Longtime Blessing Now a Curse?
-- Corruption Revealed Among Defenders of Fluoridation
-- Soda Ingredients Linked to Cirrhosis and Cancer
-- New Concerns Over HPV Vaccine
-- War on Cancer Being Oversold, Part I
-- Quebec to Apply Canada’s First Carbon Tax
-- Emergency Motion on Protecting the Honeybee
-- Widely Used Bug Spray May Be Behind Deaths of Millions of Bees
-- Common American Birds in Steep Decline
-- US, Mexico and Canada To Protect Threatened Monarch Butterflies and Porpoises
-- Getting Juiced on Goji
4) Calendar of Events
-- Meaning: From a Life of Inner Consent to the Detection of Spirituality, July 17, Vancouver
-- Yoga and Nutrition, July 28, Vancouver
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1) Professional Space for Rent in Vancouver
Two offices/treatment rooms for rent, suitable for people working in the healing professions who want a professional setting to work out of. The Pacific Institute of Reflexology is very well established and well known in the community.
This location is second to none. With the West Broadway/Cambie Street intersection just one block away, it is exceedingly easy to access from all areas of the city by private or public transit - and it won’t be long before the RAV line opens with a station one block away!
One office is 10’6" x 10’6” with the entrance in the Institute. The other is a pleasant suite of two 9' x 10' offices/rooms with a private entrance. Monthly rent is $400 + GST. I am open to someone renting and then subletting to colleagues. I also have very reasonable part time and casual rates for any one interested.
Contact Chris Shirley
Pacific Institute of Reflexology
Ph: 604-875-8818
E-mail: chrisshirley@pacificreflexology.com
Web: www.pacificreflexology.com/
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2) ISSUE UPDATES
Terminator Seed Ban Act Needs Your Support
On May 31, 2007, Private Members Bill C-448 to ban Terminator Seeds in Canada was tabled by Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko, New Democratic Party Agriculture Critic and MP for BC Southern Interior.
Terminator seeds are genetically engineered to be sterile after the first harvest to stop farmers from saving and re-planting seeds.
The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) is working hard to make sure that Terminator seeds are never field-tested or commercialized in Canada. We need you to take action with us.
Step one: Send an instant email to the Prime Minister and ask him to
make this bill law. Go to http://www.cban.ca
Step two: Ask your friends to do their part by sending them this e-mail.
CBAN is working with organizations, community groups and individuals across the country and we need the support of people like you. Together we can make a real and positive difference. To find out more go to www.banterminator.org/canada
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Thousands of Canadians Poisoned by Pesticides Each Year
More than 6,000 Canadians are directly poisoned by pesticides each year and nearly half of those are children under the age of six, according to a new report by the David Suzuki Foundation.
“Protecting children’s health is one of our most vital responsibilities,” says David Boyd, report author and environmental lawyer. “The startling number of Canadian children poisoned by pesticides provides compelling evidence that stronger actions are required to prevent these incidents from happening.”
The report Northern Exposure: Acute Pesticide Poisonings in Canada tallied data on pesticide poisonings gathered from provincial and regional authorities covering nine of the 10 provinces.
In addition to the shocking number of acute pesticide-related poisonings, the report concludes that Canada operates an ineffective system for tracking and monitoring acute poisonings, and most importantly, fails to sufficiently protect its citizens from the adverse health effects of pesticides. The David Suzuki Foundation endorses the creation of an environmental health initiative in Canada that includes the tracking of pesticide poisonings, as well as a national poisoning prevention program.
More at http://www.davidsuzuki.org/latestnews/dsfnews0621070...
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Pesticide Exposure Increases Risk of Parkinson's Disease, Study Says
http://healthy.net/scr/news.asp?Id=9174
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Canadians and Workplace Chemicals
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/research_program_recherche/e...
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Trends in the Canadian Lumber Industry, 1995 to 2006
Canada’s lumber industry has undergone extensive restructuring, and has remained profitable despite the impact of various trade and economic pressures during recent years, a new study has found.
The study, published in the Analysis in Brief series, reveals that the industry has lost thousands of jobs since the turn of the millennium. However, it has intensified its restructuring, resulting in substantial gains in labour productivity.
These gains, combined with a brief but large surge in lumber prices and operating revenues in 2004, have helped the industry maintain positive profit margins comparable, on average, to those reported in the manufacturing sector from 1999 to 2005.
More at http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/070607/d070607a....
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3) MEDIA WATCH
Alternative Medicine a Taxing Issue
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:sS3dzeKKDm4J:www...
Canada’s Government Invests $721,000 in Natural Health Products
http://new.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=739110
Drug Spending Tops $25 Billion
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/176/13/1816?etoc...
Organic Farms Booming in Canada
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/214498
Organic Food Still Leaves Environmental Footprint: Study
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/06/05/o...
Organic Food Miles Offset Benefits, Canadian Study
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=77163...
Canadian Organic Food Sales Grow Past $1 Billion
http://www.oacc.info/Docs/RetailSalesOrganic_Canada2...
Demand for Local Produce Increases in BC
http://www.marketwirecanada.com/2.0/release.do?id=74...
Organic Regulations Will Benefit Consumers: Expert
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/...
Why Working Less is Better for the Globe
http://eartheasy.com/article_working_less_better_glo...
Rules on GM-free Food Relaxed as Europe Lowers the Purity Standard
http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Genetics.aspx...
GM Crops: “Point of No Return in Ten Years”
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24...
Scientists for a GM-free Europe
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Scientists_for_a_GM_free_Eur...
Monsanto Moves to Tighten Control Over Latin America
http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=26
Food Wrappers May Be Overlooked Source of Perfluorochemicals
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2007...
Fluoride: A Longtime Blessing Now a Curse?
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/04/Tampabay/Fluoride_...
Corruption Revealed Among Defenders of Fluoridation
http://www.iaomt.org/news/archive.asp?intReleaseID=2...
Soda Ingredients Linked to Cirrhosis and Cancer
http://healthy.net/scr/news.asp?Id=9175
New Concerns Over HPV Vaccine
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/05/31/HPVVax/?utm_source...
War on Cancer Being Oversold, Part I
http://www.cancerdecisions.com/060307.html
Quebec to Apply Canada’s First Carbon Tax
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/4...
Emergency Motion on Protecting the Honeybee
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EMPH.php
Widely Used Bug Spray May Be Behind Deaths of Millions of Bees
http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/...
Common American Birds in Steep Decline
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3783
US, Mexico and Canada To Protect Threatened Monarch Butterflies and Porpoises
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=13038
Getting Juiced on Goji
http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Is-Goji-Juice...
For more current stories, check out “News” at www.hans.org.
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4) CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Meaning: From a Life of Inner Consent to the Detection of Spirituality
Who: Alfried Längle, MD, PhD
When: Tuesday July 17, 2007 7 - 9:30 pm
Where: UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre, 2750 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC
Cost: Free
Contact: Lyren Chiu at 604-222-0038
E-mail: info@crish.org
Web: www.crish.org
Dr Alfried Längle will explore the importance of meaning and its impact on mental health using Viktor Frankl’s concept of a meaningful life (Logotherapy) and the theoretical perspective of Existential Analysis. The presentation is intended to illuminate the possibilities for growth in one’s own spirituality and provide skills to manage the question of meaning both personally and professionally.
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Yoga and Nutrition
Who: Sandra Tonn, RHN
When: Saturday July 28, 2007 from 3 - 5 pm
Where: Unity Yoga (1672 E. 10th Ave, Vancouver)
Cost: $20 for Unity members; $25 for non-members; everyone welcome
Contact: 604-708-8369 to pre-register.
Most people do not consider nutrition a part of yoga, but it is. Shopping, cooking and eating are all opportunities to practice yoga. This seminar will provide valuable information for the modern-day yogi by relating the diet to yoga’s ten living principles, the Yamas and Niyamas. Topics will include conscious shopping, food quality, balanced eating, how yoga improves digestion and more.
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