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March 25, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 5 Facts About Maple Syrup LONDON, Ont. - There may be no signature ingredient more identified with Canadian cuisine than maple syrup, and with good reason. Canada produces about 85 per cent of the world's maple syrup. The only other place it's made is the northeastern United States.  Continue reading... The Heat of the Kitchen: Addiction Among Chefs HELLO PANDAS Wynne Responds To Ryerson 'Hazing' What Is Bullying? Provinces' Definitions Differ Kit Kats Recalled Lights Out For Earth Hour TWEETS: Pandas Arrive In Toronto Stop Using the "Wives, Sisters, Daughters" Argument Against The Steubenville Rapists 42 Of The Most 'Canadian' Foods: It's Not Just Bacon And Maple Syrup ERIN HAWKES How Medication Stopped My Schizophrenia From Killing Me In "The Scientific Case Against Forced Drug Treatment" presented by Robert Whitaker in February, Whitaker runs with this, blaming antipsychotics for causing psychosis. Personally, I have been on the receiving end of forced medication. I would never have consented on my own, preferring to exercise a "right to be unmedicated" over a "right to life-saving treatment." While I do not believe that every forced intervention was warranted, without some involuntary treatment I would be at best psychotic and, at worst, dead. Oh, did my voices ever want me to kill myself. Continue reading... JASON TETRO Lose Weight By Eating More...Worms? New research suggests obesity might be an autoimmune condition caused by an imbalance in the microbiota of the gut. Good germs could help to keep obesity at bay, while bad germs could lead to increased weight gain, even without the person eating more. Continue reading... DR. PEGGY DREXLER Girl Power -- But at What Cost? While girl power, the movement that began in the early 90s, has aimed to empower many young girls to be ambitious, assertive, and self-reliant, that girl power as interpreted on TV and in film is slowly but surely seeping into our streets as something more sinister. Continue reading... JOAN SUTTON My Life as an Alzheimer's Widow Ten weeks have passed since my husband died. Ten weeks of a new status --widow. Widow. The word just seems to beg to be followed by a period. Period. The end: The end of years of love, intimacy, sex, companionship, friendship, partnership, marriage, the end of status -- wife. Continue reading... PATTI HACK Enough Tchotchke: Why I Don't Need Any More Stuff I went through periods where matching dishes and wonderful wine glasses were very important. But now instead of crystal trinkets and china, there are Eiffel Towers to see, monkeys to feed, children to visit, grandchildren to laugh with, and friends to drink wine with. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.