In 2008 Health Canada commissioned the polling company Environics Research Group to survey Canadians about their attitudes and understanding of global warming and its likely impact on public health. Titled Assessing Perceived Health Risks of Climate Change: Canadian Public Opinion – 2008, the report is available in the electronic collection of Library and Archives Canada.
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October 14, 2009
Back to the blog
After several months away it’s time to get back to blogging – it’s not that I’ve been lazy or disengaged, just distracted by other things. Here’s a summary of what I’ve been up to since (gulp) my last post in February.
In late May, I was the conference program co-chair of the Association for Nonprofit and [...]
September 27, 2008
Purple Pills and Puffery
This post is about promotionalism and the pharmaceutical industry. Some of the ideas come from a paper I wrote a couple of years ago (This Ad May be Bad for Your Health) published as a chapter in my book Communication in Question. I was compelled to revisit some of the ideas that informed the paper [...]
