Living Downstream

The label "survivor" obscures the recurring ambiguities and uncertainties about the future that so many people-with-cancer-histories must embrace -- sometimes for years on end.

The Canadian government hopes to do away with trash altogether by making manufacturers responsible for products throughout their life cycle. Already, it's impressively far down the road.

In Canada, the ban on nonessential uses of pesticides began with old-fashioned citizen activism in the small village of Hudson in Quebec.