Coming up for air as I continue efforts on my textbook before the foraging season kicks into high gear! I realized I haven't posted any new blog articles for literally an entire month! Oops??? This coming weekend, we are at Vernon Shoparama at the Vernon Rec Centre. We will be in the rec centre's gym. In April, we will be back at the rec centre for the Vernon Wellness Fair, and then at Maplefest downtown Kelowna the last saturday of the month. May's craft fair schedule has run off the rails, BUT. . . we end the month at our very first ever Ren Fair!!! As I type, Ashley is working on a leather corsette belt for me! Comparing apothecary outfits to 1850's bar tenders with the age if piracy, and in all three image searches, it was apparent that as an English rider, Ashley's outfit was prebuilt just riding her horse! She had made herself a waspy corsette a few years ago, and that completes her look. The Penticton Ren Fair is happening May 30th! Do keep tabs on our 2026 Where We'll Be card, and/or to the website calendar, clickable from the main menu bar across the top of my website. We've also discovered the wonders of turning pine bark into a spice similar to cinnamon, with a flavour profile similar to cinnamon as well. It lends the same flavour style to things like apple fritters, apple crumble, pumpkin spice blend, etc. We are changing up the tea packaging by the way! This is more cost effective for us, takes the same length of time to put together as the current packaging, but takes up less space, and is easier to use. Just keep the string for your own storage as you will need it to close the package. Wild Apple Spice is the first tea to use this packaging. With plants coming to life around the valley, now is the time to be planning for foraging workshops. It's going to be a knock-em-out year this year (on many levels)! Here's hoping if you live in the Okanagan, to see you around at various fairs we'll be at! https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/03/24/coming-up-for-air-update-on-book-efforts-spring-outlook-news/

This article has had it's second update in a single month! This time around a variant of vit B1, that most people think of as a lab creation and not a naturally-occurring compound. Today's edit isn't too far down the page this time, following on a gut health quote from Dr. Mercola. Bioavailability is a big deal to me, because without it, the idea of food as medicine is moot! If your gut can't process it, your body won't benefit from it. Catch up on the latest update for this article here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2023/09/11/weight-loss-and-diabetes-factors-that-lead-to-them-and-food-as-medicine/

"A recent survey in Esquimalt showing an increasing number of residents relying on paid-subscription-based primary care clinics is the predictable result of an ongoing shortage of family physicians, says the B.C. Conservatives’ rural health critic. “There’s no walk-in clinics left down there anymore, . . .other than to go and sit in an ER for 12 hours, potentially.”" Doctors and nurse are not merely being "poached" by private medical clinics but most have not been hired back after mandates lifted for the public. "Subscriptions range from $80 to $250 a month for individuals, with a discount for paying annually, and $120 a month or about $1,200 annually for a family." "Osborne said the Health Ministry is committed to making sure access to quality health care “is based on need, not ability to pay.”" Here in Canada, our taxes pay for basic healthcare. The way Canadians look at accessing healthcare services is shifting, and the more Canadians will need to pay out of pocket for services they used to take for granted. Accessing natural health options requires a mindset shift, moving from emergency care to preventive care, to giving the body the tools it needs to begin the task of healing going forward. People who want herbal medicine while still respecting what modern science has taught us, will appreciate the phytotherapeutic approach given in my current book project. When this project is done, it will inform other book projects in the pipeline. But it's time Canadians get used to the idea of paid health care, because the alternative is increasinly, death. For the full article and additional links click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/02/03/paid-health-care-growing-in-canada/

Canada Post seeks stamp price hike amid record projected losses! Canadians are about to be hit with a stamp price hike as the failing Crown corporation, Canada Post, tries to offset losses that are quickly approaching $1 billion. Despite raising the cost of mailing a domestic letter by 35 per cent over the past 18 months, Canada Post plans a further price increase next year. The price of a stamp has gone from 92 cents to $1.24 since 2023. However, Canada Post said its current rates remain “underpriced.” 🇨🇦 #MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #CarneyLies 🇨🇦 https://truenorthwire.com/2025/12/canada-post-seeks-stamp-price-hike-amid-record-projected-losses

Mother who used her body as a HUMAN SHIELD in Bondi terror attack SPEAKS OUT! Avi Yemini speaks with a mother who survived the horrific attack with her seven-month-old baby. https://wimkin.com/johnburke/?link-id=6311916

Swissport has reached a significant operational milestone at its newly launched cargo facility at Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP), scaling up daily throughput from just 9 tonnes at the start of operations to as much as 100 tonnes per day within five months. #Swissport #MilanMalpensaAirport #Malpensa #WTCMalpensa #Italy #Europe #aircargo #aircraft

Border security seized 30 outbound stolen vehicles in GTA! The Canada Border Services Agency seized 30 stolen vehicles that were about to be shipped out of the Greater Toronto Area last month, bringing the total number of intercepted stolen vehicles to over 1,500 nationwide this year. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) recently reported that it “recovered” 30 stolen vehicles, valued at over $800,000, destined for export last month. The announcement was made in a post on X, which included a slide show of the recovered vehicles. 🇨🇦 #MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #CarneyLies 🇨🇦 https://truenorthwire.com/2025/12/border-security-seized-30-outbound-stolen-vehicles-in-gta-november

Elon's response when he was asked if he would "do DOGE again" was heartbreaking, but then he said something about God! A year ago, everyone was riding high from Donald Trump's landslide election victory and excited by talk of him appointing Elon Musk to lead a "Department of Government Efficiency." Twelve months and an on-again-off-again friendship later, Musk has regrets about his time working in the government. https://notthebee.com/article/elon-musk-admits-that-he-has-regrets-about-starting-doge-and-wouldnt-do-it-again

Tired of sanitized headlines and woke spin? I write the kind of unfiltered, no-BS takes you can see in the example below. Additionally, in today's edition: federal unions betraying taxpayers, Britain sacrificing its daughters on the altar of “diversity,” lost Biden-era kids finally being rescued by Trump, and ancient underground cities that make the history books look like fairy tales. One of today’s fresh posts on my Substack: "In a stunning display of decisive leadership, President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, has spearheaded the rescue of over 62,000 migrant children who vanished into the shadows during the Biden administration’s porous border policies, pulling them from the clutches of sex trafficking rings, forced labor camps, and unspeakable abuses that no child should ever endure. Homan, dropping jaws on Fox & Friends over the weekend, revealed that as of December 5 — mere months into Trump’s second term — the administration had located these kids through relentless welfare checks, sponsor investigations, and crackdowns on smuggling networks, all while sealing the border tighter than ever with zero releases and over 579,000 deportations already under the belt. Trump pledged on day one to hunt down every last one of the estimated 300,000 unaccompanied minors lost under Biden’s watch — out of over half a million smuggled in — coordinating federal, state, and local forces to deliver on that vow without needing new laws, just raw resolve. It’s Herculean work: Homan’s team pores over daily tallies, dismantling cartels that profited from the chaos, and proving once again why Trump stands as the greatest president of our lifetime, turning a humanitarian catastrophe into a beacon of redemption for America’s forgotten innocents. The stark contrast couldn’t be more damning — Biden’s “compassionate” open-door fiasco, where a single understaffed hotline ignored 65,000 cries for help from stale bread to nightly assaults by adult predators, left these children as faceless statistics in a bureaucratic black hole, with ICE releasing 291,000 without court notices and no follow-up. Homan’s blunt assessment? “Children that weren’t even being looked for under the Biden administration” — a willful blindness that fueled the very trafficking horrors Trump is now eradicating, from girls forced into bedrooms with strangers to boys chained in sweatshops. This isn’t just policy; it’s moral clarity, a Trump team refusing to let political correctness or virtue-signaling doom another generation, while Democrats who branded border security as “xenophobic” now face the ugly receipts of their complicity. With 62,000 lives reclaimed and counting, it’s a clarion call: secure borders save souls, and ignoring the vulnerable isn’t empathy — it’s endangerment." If this is the news you’ve been starving for, come get it raw and free every week (sometimes daily, sometimes weekly) at https://johnhrusky.substack.com When on the site, hit that subscribe button (it’s 100% free) and never miss the stories the mainstream prays you’ll ignore. See you inside. https://johnhrusky.substack.com/p/federal-employees-vs-common-tax-paying

Celebrities with distant Canadian roots set to gain citizenship under new Liberal law! A group of well-known American public figures, including singer Madonna and former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton, would become eligible to be considered Canadian citizens under a federal law passed last month that removes long-standing limits on citizenship by descent. Bill C-3, adopted on November 20, eliminates the “first-generation limit,” a restriction introduced in 2009 that prevented Canadian citizenship from being passed to children born abroad if their Canadian parent was also born outside the country. 🇨🇦 #MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #CarneyLies 🇨🇦 https://truenorthwire.com/2025/12/celebrities-with-distant-canadian-roots-set-to-gain-citizenship-under-new-liberal-law