Nahas on Alternative Medicine
I recently caught up with my old friend, Richard Nahas, an M.D. practicing alternative and integrative medicine in Ottawa. Since embarking on his career in 1994 Richard has accrued a panoply of...
View ArticleBello on Climate Disruption
For those of us not tapped into the research of environmental non-profits, nearly all of our information on climate change tends to come by way of the mainstream media. Because of news filtering it’s...
View ArticleLiddle on Kluane National Park
BRENT LIDDLE, a wilderness guide from Haines Junction, Yukon has spent over three decades exploring one of the most remote corners of North America. Between 1975 and 2002 he served as an interpretive...
View ArticleHallak on ‘Beit Beirut’
One of the few remaining structures bearing the scars of Lebanon’s fifteen year civil-war (1975-1990) is Beirut’s Barakat Building. This once stately and aristocratic edifice straddles a key...
View ArticleGriffin and Tyrrell on Meaning, Mysticism and Mental Health
While in England recently I had the opportunity to meet with psychologists Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell – the originators of the Human Givens school of psychotherapy. At the core of their approach is...
View ArticleAuld on Circumskiing Mount Logan
Last spring I spent a week with a group of mountaineers at a remote glacier camp in Yukon’s St. Elias Range near the base of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. Sometimes referred to as “Canada’s...
View ArticleAdnan Khan on the Rickshaw Circus
Canadian journalist, and friend, Adnan Khan, has been covering South Asia and Middle East for over a decade. When not traipsing around Turkey, his home turf, the Maclean’s correspondent can usually be...
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