Your Guide to the products & services available on Vancouver Island for Seniors and their families.
In early July 2018, Green Aura Cannabis was devastated with the most disheartening news.
Green Aura Cannabis Canada was an upscale, community and education focused cannabis shop located within Chemainus BC.
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.
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.
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’?”
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. When the level of histamine in our bodies…
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 in Canada since 2005 — and what did…
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.
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.
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.