Issue 8
The danger of trying to be happy when you’re fat
EIC March 5, 2012By Clinton Hallahan Living obese is like a couple of ambulances screeching by, sirens on fire. Those ambulances don’t affect you presently, but knowing that their rush is to tend to multiple casualties brings that passive foreboding, that palpable feeling that something has gone quite wrong. Like any prolonged health problem, the foreboding doesn’t really catch up to you until that ambulance is ordered on your behalf. This is where my conflict comes in reading Ljudmila Petrovic’s article recently published in The Peak [“Fat happiness: Is it wrong to be fat?”, February 20]. That article focused on Kalamity Hildebrandt, a…
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Climate reporting heats up debate over oil sands
EIC March 5, 2012By Erika Zell Photo by By Mark Burnham Oil sands advocates may have been given some unexpected fuel for their fire this month, with the release of a new study claiming that burning off the entire Alberta oil sands would only…
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