Last month the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) made headlines when its president, Dr. Doug Weir, proposed a number of so-termed ‘radical’ new measures meant to combat what he called “the epidemic of obesity” in Canada. Obesity needs combatting “aggressively” and “immediately,” he continued, recommending, among other things, raising taxes and mandating graphic warning labels on high calorie foods with low nutritional value. While a tax increase is being considered, the graphic warning labels have so far proved the most incendiary of the recommendations, with claims that they are excessively grotesque and unfairly vilify specific foods, or even the baffling assertion that graphic warning labels are ineffective in general. Continue reading
In the thousands of years we’ve progressed as a species, we’ve finally agreed on how important it is to associate one’s self with an amiable colour scheme and develop one’s personal ‘brand.’ Excuse me while I die a little inside.
Last year, when I told people I was going on a full year exchange to Singapore, I would constantly get back the kind of words that people have just waiting to go. “You’ll have the time of your life,” they would say, or “I’m so jealous, I wish I could do that.” It was a formula that everyone seemed to know: a surprised look, a trite compliment or two, a little bit of useless advice about train or bus tickets until finally and invariably, the same ridiculous conclusion, “It’ll be a great experience!” It’s a phrase that lends itself quite admirably to any crossroads in life – so well, in fact, because it’s entirely useless. 
Having been assailed on all sides by an overly ambitious selection of courses, it was only this Friday that I encountered Andrew Forgione’s USC election campaign video, via The Gazette‘s “
