Health

CHARBONNEAU – Prostate cancer deaths rise as simple test unused

January 15, 2026 // 1 Comment

A SIMPLE BLOOD TEST can reveal the early presence of prostate cancer but its use has been discouraged. Rates of incurable prostate cancer have jumped 50 per cent in Canadian [Continue]

LETTER – About the ‘professional marksmen’ who shot the ostriches

November 8, 2025 // 3 Comments

Dear Armchair Mayor, I didn’t realize that there were “professional marksmen” in Canada. Apparently, those are the folks who shot the 300+ ostriches inside a corral [Continue]

EDITORIAL – ‘Culling’ of ostriches at B.C. farm is a tragic necessity

November 6, 2025 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE OSTRICH SAGA is coming to an end and it’s not a happy one. During the last several months the controversy over a Canadian Food [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – I have no right to spread disease

September 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

THE CULT OF INDIVIDUALISM leads us to believe we can do anything we want. But when it comes to public health, the rights of individuals to spread disease are scondary. If I [Continue]

FORSETH – The absolute nonsense being spouted by the anti-vaxxers

September 6, 2025 // 2 Comments

FRIDAY, an on-line friend, and co-moderator with me on the Politics and More in B.C. and Across Canada Facebook page, wrote a commentary; “Florida Drops all vaccine [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The Canadian context for PSA tests: to test or not to test

August 21, 2025 // 1 Comment

THERE’S BEEN a lot of controversy about routine tests for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in men. It’s a simple blood test that measures the level of PSA, a protein [Continue]