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What to do about Canada Post

ByDoug Anderson Canada, Government Policy
Doug Anderson

Oct 26, 2025

In 1968, Pierre Trudeau appointed Eric Kierans as Postmaster General in his first cabinet (it was still a cabinet position back then). Judging by the Aislin cartoon from 1970 posted on Facebook recently by the cartoonist himself, nothing much has changed.

Well, yes, a lot has changed – postal rates have gone up dramatically, mail volumes have dropped dramatically as a result of email, parcel volumes have increased dramatically and numerous non-unionized competitors have taken much of that business from the post office.,

So, what’s left. Most importantly – but diminishing every year – the monopoly that Canada Post was given on letter mail. That was supposed to be the revenue generator that would keep them in the black. That’s not working out so well these days.

Kierans made a number of operational changes which included closing post offices and discontinuing mail delivery on Saturdays … More

My Nutritional Awakening

ByDoug Anderson Health

Why I take a lot of vitamins

Doug Anderson

Oct 11, 2025

Back around 1960 my aunt developed breast cancer and had a radical mastectomy (breast, lymph nodes and all – that’s what they did back then). She was told that if she had no secondaries for 10 years she could consider herself cured.

Nine year and several months later a secondary appeared, and that began a long series of further secondaries – each followed by surgery, radiation or chemotherapy regimes which made her life miserable. Like a lot of people in similar situations, she was ready to try anything. At the time there was a little book entitled “Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor’s Guide to Good Health” by Dr. D.C. Jarvis, which had been on the New York Times Bestseller list for the previous 2 years. Its prescription was apple cider vinegar and honey. My aunt read it and … More

My vitamins

ByDoug Anderson Health

I take a lot of vitamins because I don’t believe that humans consume anywhere near the quantities that they would have had during their evolution on the savannas of Africa.

In most of the listings below I have included the recommended daily requirement from one source or another

These supplement are of course in addition to what I get from my food.

Vitamin A – WebMD Recommended – Men: 900 mcg/day, Women: 700 mcg/day
Vitamin A aids in the development and maintenance of night vision and aids in maintaining the health of the skin and membranes.
I take 10,000 IU every other day (Halibut Liver Oil capsule -10,000 vtt A/ 1,000 vitD)
Both Vitamin A and D are fat soluble so they are stored in fat and in the liver.
Skim, 1% and 2% milk is fortified with 1,200 international units of vitamin A per litre, as required … More