Island Woman Magazine will actively support and encourage all the women candidates on Vancouver Island that will be running in the upcoming 2018 municipal elections.
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Spring has sprung. It’s the time of year when we’re surrounded by advertisements for detoxes and cleanses. Most of which I don’t recommend.
Read more →Recently I was asked: “Is there any truth to the idea that we should be soaking our nuts and grains to make these foods more digestible, more nutritious or to avoid so called ‘anti nutrients’?”
Read more →Hay fever. I have it. Do you? Did you know that what you eat could be making your hay fever worse? All human bodies contain histamine. Most of us, most of the time, aren’t bothered by it one bit. However, our bodies have a threshold for histamine.
Read more →Provincial ministers of health and ministers of finance seek to “bend the health-care cost curve,” but year after year, provincial budgets bend the cost curve in the wrong direction, adding billions of dollars to provincial health spending. In fact, we’ve doubled spending on our medical treatment system
Read more →As we come to the close of Seniors Week now is a good time to reflect on what it means to be a senior in BC.
Read more →A little over a year ago, Julie Tomaino had a stroke that affected both sides of her brain, leaving her “locked in” – conscious but unable to speak or move for about 10 days.
Read more →British Columbia says it’s taking a team approach to connect more people to health services in a province where 780,000 people are without a family doctor.
Read more →B.C.’s Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released a report today of an investigation into a complaint that the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction failed to follow the law in relation to the calculation of income assistance benefits.
Read more →Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie today released Seniors Transportation: Affordable, Appropriate and Available. The report, which reflects over a year of consultation and research, concludes that changes are required to address some of the existing transportation systems and a new program will be required to fill some of
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