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Dirt and the Body Politic
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By:
Penni Mitchell
The first thing I thought when I heard about toxic chemicals in personal care products was, “Well, I’m probably okay, I use a lot of Body Shop products.”
But there they were, on the label of The Body Shop peppermint foot cream I rub into my feet at night:
methylparaben, propylparaben, ethylparaben, butylparaben, isobutylparaben.
Parabens, in case you haven’t heard, are the new lead. Parabens are used to prolong the life of products that might otherwise go mouldy before you had a chance to use them. [more]
Pink to Green
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By:
Penni Mitchell
They’re everywhere—on bread wrappers, cosmetics, golf balls, cereal packages, bank ads and even a $60 silver coin issued by the Royal Canadian Mint. Increasingly, I get the feeling that, as a woman, I should buy in to the idea that a cure for breast cancer will be found if I consume products sporting those cute little pink ribbons.
But I’m not buying.
The problem, as I see it, is that the more that pink ribbon products line our store shelves, the more breast cancer becomes a mere brand of consumerism. [more]
Hot Air Policy
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By:
Penni Mitchell
To hear the Liberals tell it, we should be quaking in our gumboots, our Birkenstocks, or our whirly girly flip-flops.
A very scary thing is in our midst.
The scary thing is not a shipping magnate with a scallywag’s reputation for business. It is not that the office of a former finance minister reportedly attempted to influence the awarding of federal research grants. It is not federal surpluses created on account of an Employment Insurance surplus engineered by disqualifying tens of thousands of workers from EI benefits. [more]
