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Geoff Johnson: Freedom without responsibility is an adolescent concept

Geoff Johnson: Freedom without responsibility is an adolescent concept

For the 2021/2022 cadres of Grade 12 students, their coming launch into the post-high school adult world feels like 鈥渇reedom.鈥 Or so they think.
Trevor Hancock: No matter who wins, we could all lose

Trevor Hancock: No matter who wins, we could all lose

It has been a pretty dispiriting election all round. It was called in the midst of a pandemic for no better reason than that the Liberals want to hang on to power.
Our Community: Son plans 24-hour bike ride for father; volunteers collect for food banks

Our Community: Son plans 24-hour bike ride for father; volunteers collect for food banks

Ride starts Monday at airport, goal is $18,000 Ian Duncan is honouring his dad with a 24-hour cycling event beginning Monday to raise money for the ALS Society of sa国际传媒
Conservation-officer shortage often leaves untrained police to deal with animals

Conservation-officer shortage often leaves untrained police to deal with animals

The video is disturbing to watch. In an attempt to euthanize a mule deer injured by a vehicle, a Lethbridge police officer is seen 颅repeatedly running over the animal with his truck in January 2019.
Monique Keiran: An owl, a pussycat and an ominous 4 a.m. yowl

Monique Keiran: An owl, a pussycat and an ominous 4 a.m. yowl

Mee-yowl. It woke us both. It was 4 a.m., and just outside the window, a cat had shrieked. Seconds later, we heard a sudden, brief flap of wings 鈥 big wings 鈥 beating against the pavement. Then silence. No further flapping.
Our Community: Moon festival lands in Saanich, grocers raise money for imaging tool

Our Community: Moon festival lands in Saanich, grocers raise money for imaging tool

The District of Saanich is inviting the 颅public to its Moon Festival Lantern 颅Celebration on Sept. 18 鈥 a free, outdoor event being held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. It takes place at Lambrick Park and the area outside the Gordon Head Recreation Centre.
Pandemic pivot: For some, COVID-19 triggers positive life changes

Pandemic pivot: For some, COVID-19 triggers positive life changes

Disruptive, economically and personally devastating, inconvenient and in some cases life-altering and deadly: There is no question the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a massive toll.
Charla Huber: Long wait for digital vaccine passport a good sign

Charla Huber: Long wait for digital vaccine passport a good sign

This has been a week of 颅waiting for me. I spent the long 颅weekend at the Saanich Fair with my daughter, her friends and a 颅fellow mom. I had never been to the Saanich Fair before, and there was no better time to go than the present.
Lawrie McFarlane: We get the judges we put up with

Lawrie McFarlane: We get the judges we put up with

Around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, an Esquimalt woman screamed as she saw a man trying to climb through her bedroom window. Though he persisted, she managed to keep him out until a group of neighbours stepped in and held him till the police arrived.
Monique Keiran: Why did some students' grades soar when learning went online?

Monique Keiran: Why did some students' grades soar when learning went online?

Provincial health officer Bonnie Henry emphasized earlier this year the importance of sa国际传媒鈥檚 universities and colleges returning to in-person classes due to the pandemic鈥檚 impacts on students.