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Police probing reports of man targeting aboriginal women with date-rape drug
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
Vancouver police have confirmed they are investigating reports that a man using a date-rape drug has been targeting aboriginal women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A man has been preying on the women at a particular bar and spiking their drinks, Marlene George, a longtime community worker at the Carnegie Centre, told CBC News on Tuesday.
HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion
Posted by Shemuses
In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion. Doing so protects extremists under the Weldon and Church amendments.
Losing Private Dwyer, War Hero
Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
The photo below captures everything that Americans wanted to believe about the Iraq war in the earliest days of the invasion in 2003. Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, an Army medic whose unit was fighting its way up the Euphrates to Baghdad, cradles a wounded boy. The child is half-naked and helpless, but trusting. Private Dwyer's face is strained but calm. That story turned bitter years ago, of course. And the mountain of sorrows keeps growing: Mr. Dwyer died last month in North Carolina. He was 31 and very sick. For years he had been in and out of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.
Sick orphan baby finds a family in Miami NICU
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Before she learned how to smile or hold a gaze, Emma was given up twice - by her 23-year-old birth mother, a drug-user, smoker and drinker who knew she could never care for the baby, and by a 48-year-old adoptive mother who backed out when she learned of Emma's heart condition and of her own pregnancy by in-vitro fertilization.
McCain misses Medicare vote
Posted by Damianmann from Arizona Central
Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain is the only senator who did not vote this week on a Medicare bill that halted doctor pay cuts but slashed billions in funding from private insurers.
Salmonella toll tops 1,000; peppers perhaps source
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Ed Schultz said on the radio today that this was related to allowing Mexican truckers to bring more uninspected produce into the country. "More than 1,000 people now have become ill from salmonella initially linked to raw tomatoes, a sobering milestone Wednesday that makes this the worst foodborne outbreak in at least a decade. Adding to the confusion, the government is warning certain people to avoid types of hot peppers, too."
The Culture of Meat
Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
Food safety scares as well as animal welfare, human health and environmental concerns have no doubt given Canadians many reasons to rethink where our meat comes from. There's just one problem: meat that may be safer (that which is healthier, more humanely produced and has less of an overall ecological impact) is not always readily available. This is especially the case in British Columbia. Prior to October 2007, it was legal for a British Columbian to show up at a farm and purchase meat from a farmer. That choice is no longer afforded to anyone because all meat sold in the province must now be processed at a federally or provincially licensed facility.
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