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FEATURES

Medical scan scam ......................................................... 6 Alan Cassels

Herbalists who put people and plants first .............. 11 Don Ollsin

Taste of Health celebrates 10 years ........................... 12 Staff & volunteers at Earthsave Canada

Eat the light: the fourth age of solar ........................... 16 Geoff Olson

Bring back the salmon .................................................. 20 Celia Brauer

How 9/11 taught me to seek the truth ........................ 22 Drew Noftle

IN EVERY ISSUE

HEALTH Sample a Taste of Health ............................................... 9 NUTRISPEAK Vesanto Melina

ORGANICS Seeds the future of food ............................................... 13 ON THE GARDEN PATH Carolyn Herriot

SPIRITUALITY The light of the world ................................................... 14 POWER OF NOW Eckhart Tolle

Loving from soul ............................................................. 15 UNIVERSE WITHIN Gwen Randall-Young

ENVIRONMENT Celebrate a green future .............................................. 18 EARTHFUTURE Guy Dauncey

True north strong and free ............................................ 19 SCIENCE MATTERS David Suzuki

CULTURE Let me share a secret ................................................... 31 FILMS WORTH WATCHING Robert Alstead

RESOURCE DIRECTORY ................................................ 23 DATEBOOK ...................................................................... 32 CLASSIFIED ..................................................................... 33 ON TRACK ZODIAC ........................................................ 34

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