News clips from The Globe and Mail

From Cardero Coffee & Tea Company on 5th street, downtown Courtenay, BC, here are a few articles that I read from today’s Globe and Mail…
(the apple oat bran muffin was really good, their latte was not bad).

‘Inherently toxic’ chemical faces its future
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
Bisphenol A is ingested by practically everyone in Canada who eats canned foods or drinks from a can or hard plastic water bottles.
Now a controversy is raging over the safety of widespread public exposure to the chemical, which is known to act like a synthetic female sex hormone.
‘Zero is the new black’
MARGARET WENTE
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
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?I feel guilty whenever I buy flowers,? Envirowoman from Vancouver writes on her blog. ?I think it has to do with my cruelty-fee chromosomes. Something so beautiful, having its life cut short (literally), just seems so, so wrong. I just don’t feel I have the right.? Envirowoman lists her work as investment banking. She describes herself as a plastic-free, cruelty-free, vegetarian-free chocoholic.
Spending eternity under the sea
After you die, you can be put in a pine box, entombed in a mausoleum or have your cremated remains lodged in an urn. Or, if you want to wave farewell, those ashes can be mixed with concrete, formed into a ball and dropped into the deep blue sea.