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Canada should ban all advertising, marketing, promotion and sponsorship involving vaping companies to avoid hooking a new generation of smokers

The tobacco industry continues to produce and market its deadly products around the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries

Too often there is a major conflict between public health and large segments of the private sector because they have two very different motivations

Columnist Trevor Hancock looks back at how health care has evolved since he came into the profession

Scrooge’s awakening to humanitarian instincts and conversion to a spirit of generosity needs to be replicated at scale

Single-family homes in suburban areas result in much higher home energy, transportation and infrastructure costs

Large SUVs and light trucks are vastly over-designed for the suburban market and very energy inefficient

Decades of lax assessment coupled with the assumption that chemicals are innocent until proven guilty have left us and the ecosystem with a burden of toxins

The way the ecological footprint is calculated means the estimate that Saanich’s is equivalent to four planets is an underestimate

Obvious ways to reduce our ecological footprint include switching to a low meat or “flexitarian” diet, reducing food waste and creating compact, walkable “15-minute” neighbourhoods