Tag: <span>Canada</span>

Legalities of Foraging in BC, Canada

A recent article published on Castanet, a local news site, erroneously has claimed that it is illegal to dig up Arrowleaf Balsamroot on crown land here in BC. When I asked for sources, they sent me this link, where I immediately noticed the reporter’s error: Collection 2 (1) Subject to …

Musings on the Rhythms of Life, and a little Foraging too

Today’s foraging run will probably be the only one for this week, unless Ashley surprises me and decides to head out to an area we can walk to, on Canada Day, July 1st. We were both tired today, so only a couple photos, with one showing several of the plants …

Government, Pharmaceuticals, and Natural Health Products

While I’ve been busy building an apothecary pop-up clinic inside a steamer trunk we restored from next-thing-to-garbage, troubling clouds have been darkening on the Canadian healthcare horizon, particularly over the mountains of governmental oversight! On the one hand, we have natural health product regulations that many natural health product manufacturers …

Behavioural Science and Your Health

Seven months ago according to MeWe, and June 6th according to the Rebel news article I shared that day, I wrote about government-mandated behaviour modification techniques.   I just tried to access the tender bid URL from a US IP address, and got this error message: “This site can’t be reachedbuyandsell.gc.ca’s …

Where You Live and Work, Agenda 2030, Lockdowns and “15min Cities”

There’s no mistaking that mental, emotional, social, relational, and physical health were all impacted, often negatively, by the restrictions that were imposed in various places around the world starting in 2020!  Stories of Chinese shrieking from balconies when Shanghai encountered severe crackdowns on mobility still ring in many ears.   …

Three New Tracking Codes, is Canada Using Them?

News came out today regarding three new diagnostic codes: Z28.310, Z28.311 and Z28.39, that have been added to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), for reporting on patient COVID-19 vaccination status.  As noted by others, diagnostic codes using the ICD system have been integrated into medical …