Progressives often cite Canada as a glorious utopia of good health and freedom.

Those of us who get our news from more reliable sources know that the opposite is the case.

But, personally, I did not have the return of the scourge of 15th-century sailors on my 2024 bingo card either.

Research by a young Canadian doctor working in Hamilton suggests that scurvy, a disease we mostly associate with life on sailing ships centuries ago, may be more prevalent in modern Canada than we might have thought. //

It also takes very little vitamin C to prevent scurvy. A single orange has five times the daily dose of vitamin C necessary to prevent scurvy.