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1 in 7 Canadian men get prostate cancer, and I am among them
The moment Dr. Kenneth Poon strode across the waiting room and shook my hand, I knew it was bad news. The gentle, hopeful eyes of the caring urologist surgeon displayed a sense of loss this day. He...
View ArticleB.C. spent almost $200 million on aviation companies to fight last year's...
The B.C. government spent a record $195 million last year on aviation companies, including airplanes and helicopters, to fight the massive wildfires that ravaged the province. The money represents...
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The controversy over the PSA test is failing men with aggressive prostate...
One typically thinks of men 50 and older getting a PSA blood test to help smoke out prostate cancer. But B.C. politician Rick Glumac took the test at age 46, a life-changing decision that he encourages...
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Prostate cancer research yields hope, disappointment
Michael Izen wrote the book on prostate cancer. And now he’s dying of the disease. The Vancouver labour-market analyst consultant jokes that he had “softwood lumber” problems and was diagnosed with...
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Prostate cancer: Diagnosis forces couples to rethink sexuality
At 78, Karl Eibensteiner doesn’t see women the way he used to. The Kerrisdale divorcee is being treated with enzalutamide for an aggressive prostate cancer that has spread dangerously beyond the...
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Aging with prostate cancer as side-effects continue to linger
Len Gross of Burnaby is an optimist, but also a realist, about prostate cancer as he forges deeper into old age. Gross was diagnosed in 1992, two years before retirement, putting him now among B.C.’s...
View ArticleGone Wild: Readers support men getting PSA test to help detect prostate cancer
I received a massive public response to my five-part series earlier this month on prostate cancer. Readers feel there should be little controversy over the PSA test. They wholeheartedly support it as a...
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B.C. government criticized for inadequate funding of $30 test to help detect...
The B.C. government is coming under fire at the local and national level for failing to adequately fund a simple $30 blood test that can help to detect aggressive prostate cancers and save men’s lives....
View ArticleVancouver park board moves to end use of rodenticides
The Vancouver park board said Thursday it will ask its restaurant lease operators to stop using rodenticide in an effort to prevent secondary poisonings of other wildlife such as owls. Howard Normann,...
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Environmentalism runs deep in family of Kinder Morgan protester Hayley Zacks
One of the loudest critics of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is also the protesters’ best-kept secret. Hayley Zacks is the 21-year-old who garnered headlines when she impersonated a reporter to...
View ArticleGreenhouse-gas emissions decline in Metro Vancouver, regional report shows
Greenhouse-gas emissions in the region declined two per cent to 15 million tonnes over a five-year period, according to Metro Vancouver’s 2018 Caring for the Air report. The annual report states that...
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Evolution of the campfire: propane is safer, easier, cheaper and healthier...
Alice Fox’s carbon footprint is going through the roof. Through her pocketbook, too. And even into her lungs. Like so many British Columbians at this time of the year, the Surrey resident enjoys a wood...
View ArticleAdams River sockeye catches face 'significant restraint' to save endangered...
Fishermen who have been waiting four years to harvest the famous Adams River sockeye run on the Fraser River system could see their catches cut in half in an effort to save the endangered Cultus Lake...
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Lower Mainland real estate 'refugees' head to Vancouver Island for better...
For Peter and Shelagh Kouwenhoven, life has never been better — or more unexpected. The couple sold their 25-year-old townhouse in Walnut Grove in north Langley for $700,000 and, last December, bought...
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Introduced sheep, goats, deer alter natural ecosystem of Gulf Islands
JEDEDIAH ISLAND, B.C. — Larri Woodrow, a hunter, ties his aluminum punt to the Long Bay shoreline and walks across a border of green grass in search of prey. “Fresh footprints,” says the retired...
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Graveyard-shift garbage patrol seeks residential offenders who put bears in...
Julie Kanya’s patrol vehicle is a compact electric car, her uniform yellow-and-orange reflective gear, and her weapon a smartphone with a camera. Shortly after 11 p.m. on a weekday, the urban wildlife...
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Conservationists struggle to save western toadlets making perilous migration...
It is one of the greatest, if tiniest, terrestrial migrations in North America, an estimated 100,000 western toadlets making their annual, overland trek from the pond of their birth in Chilliwack,...
View ArticleBird lovers flock to Vancouver for summer festival
Thousands of scientists and general bird lovers will descend on the city Aug. 19-26 for the International Ornithological Congress and Vancouver International Bird Festival. Visit iocongress2018.com and...
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Industry and conservationists square off over B.C.'s Howe Sound
In some parts of the world, the island-studded fiord called Howe Sound would have been locked up as a national park long ago, given its astounding natural beauty on the edge of a metropolis of more...
View ArticleNatural versus artificial reefs: each benefits marine life differently on...
TORONTO — New research shows that the debate over artificial versus natural reefs on the B.C. coast has ended in something of a stalemate. It turns out that artificial reefs — mainly shipwrecks and...
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