At the risk of navel-gazing, I went out and got a haircut last night. I hadn’t gotten one since weeks before the wedding, and that haircut wasn’t done by my usual guy. So for lack of a better word, last night’s haircut was a bit of a reunion. And as much as I hate to […]

Yesterday, while I was busy talking about the recent UNAIDS announcement that the global HIV epidemic has been “halted,” the media was busy talking about a new drug called Truvada. As a piece on the CTV News website explains, Truvada is an antiretroviral drug used by HIV patients to reduce their viral load. But a […]

Last week, I shared a recent commentary by Davey D on the whole TSA hullabaloo. Today, I feel like it’s only right to link to this post by blogger SamuraiFrog over at the frequently clever (and often NSFW) Electronic Cerebrectomy. Like Davey D, he rises above all the shouting and makes a rather valid “big […]

Hey, remember last week when we were only talking about the Harper government simply standing in the way of progress on climate change, as opposed to taking an active role in making things much worse on a global level? In our names, and as our elected representatives? Well, according to the Globe and Mail, they’ve […]

Here’s a bit of great news from the BBC: according to the United Nations, the global figures for new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are finally falling. Last year’s total of 2.6 million new HIV infections, while arguably staggering, is down nearly twenty percent from the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1999. Meanwhile, the […]

My good friend Sofi, who you may remember from her blog, just had a piece published on Salon. Congratulations, Sofi! Let’s all go and read it!