2 Reasons You Might Want To Reconsider Your Gummy Multivitamin
“Gummies are an incomplete, inefficient, and sugar-laden way to approach a multivitamin. While I certainly think well-designed gummies can be useful for certain complexes, as well as for singular nutrients or botanicals, for a multi, they’re genuinely lacking.”
– Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN
Biggest Weight Gain Now Comes Early in Adulthood
More than half of Americans in the representative sample had gained 5% or more body weight during a 10-year period. More than one-third of Americans had gained 10% or more body weight. And nearly one-fifth had gained 20% or more body weight.
The mandate of N.B.’s systemic racism commissioner perpetuates the problem
Mi’gmaq and Wolastoqey chiefs and many others across the province called for a public inquiry into systemic racism against Indigenous Peoples in New Brunswick’s criminal justice and policing sectors. In December 2020, when asked to support a motion in the legislature calling for a public inquiry, the government refused.
How Commonwealth universities profited from Indigenous dispossession through land grants
Most public universities founded in the 19th century — especially in what is now Canada, the United States and Aotearoa New Zealand, but also in South Africa and Australia — were large-scale landowners.
Public universities received substantial tracts of expropriated Indigenous territory from their governments that could be leased or sold to generate endowment capital.
What causes mass shootings? Mental health failures or poor gun laws?
“No one who commits a violent act is mentally well,”
– Beth McGinty, a mental health and substance abuse policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Nunavut MP calls for Indigenous languages on federal election ballots
The bill, tabled June 30, would amend the Canada Elections Act to allow a ballot to be printed in an Indigenous language “using the appropriate writing systems for that language, including syllabics if applicable,” if an elector requests one or if an electoral district is on Indigenous land.
Federal government, AFN reach $20B final settlement on First Nations child welfare agreement
Money to compensate young people harmed by Canada’s discriminatory child welfare system is expected to begin flowing to First Nations sometime next year, now that the federal government and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) have reached a final settlement agreement.
First Nations leaders vote against Assembly of First Nations national chief’s suspension
AFN National Chief RoseAnne Archibald arrives at the annual general assembly at the Vancouver Convention Centre with a small group of supporters including First Nations chiefs and grassroots community members. (Ka’nhehsí:io Deer/CBC)
Supreme Court gives Ontario right to appeal treaty obligation
(By Expositor Staff - Manitopulin Expositor - Little Current, ON - June 29, 2022) - Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Fund (RHTLF) representatives are expressing disappointment with...
West Moberly First Nations Announces Partial Settlement of Civil Claim
West Moberly’s primary concern now is to do what we can to mitigate and heal some of
the damage that the Peace River valley has suffered through the construction of the three
dams, as well as through massive forestry, mining and oil and gas development.