After traveling the world as a competitive skier, two-time Olympian George Grey has come home to study at Selkirk College, launching a new chapter in his life. Grey, a 36-year-old retired cross-country ski racer, is in his third year of the Selkirk College Nursing Program. Growing up in Rossland, naturally outdoor pursuits ...

Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers and streams are its circulatory system, providing life’s essentials for people, animals and ecosystems.  Canada has one-fifth of the world’s freshwater, a quarter of its remaining wetlands and its longest coastline.  With this abundance, it’s easy to take water for granted.  Many of our daily...

          Measuring your  pH is simple.  Take any 4 days and test every urination after the first urination in the morning with a indicator paper (called pH paper), which show the pH values between 4.0-7.5. (These you can buy at your friendly compounding pharmacy or spa store).  If the value shows repeatedly below pH 7.0...

The early spring weather means many of us are spending more time outside. We aren’t the only ones enjoying the unseasonable warmth - the change in weather also brings out ticks – small bugs that feed on the blood of humans and animals and can sometimes transmit disease. Ticks are most often found in tall grass and wooded...

The BC Lung Association has partnered with Radon Environmental Management Corp to provide a faster way to find out if your home, school or workplace has potentially unhealthy indoor radon levels, the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.    “Waiting for months to find out if your home, school or workplace’s indoor radon...

In Parliament we take up and debate issues from across the spectrum, from the relatively simple to the most serious of topics. Recently one of the most serious issues in a long time came before us: Physician-Assisted Dying. On February 6, 2015 the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the Carter case, finding that Canadians who...

Medical research on the potential benefits of treatment with cannabidiol (CBD) is beginning to show results.  A presentation to the U.S. Senate Caucus on International  Narcotics Control in June of 2015, by Nora D. Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, pointed out,  "Rigorous clinical studies are still...

Sleep is important to our health and how we function -- perhaps more than most people realize.  An article on a recent study explains that even students between the ages of 16 and 20, often thought of as resilient organisms who can do without sleep better than older people,  do not do as well academically when they get less...

History of Gene Manipulation "Genetically Modified Organisms" is an area that abounds with skepticism, suspicion and fear. The mere mention of genetic modification is enough to give a substantial portion of the population the 'heebie jeebies".  They have been a source of controversy since the biotechnology was introduced in...

           I just recently returned from a back-country ski trip to a wonderful cabin up in the mountains with 11 other people and we had many discussions over the week.  One of the main topics was food of course, since everyone is ravenous after a full day of climbing and I realized how many mis-conceptions there are out...