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Trevor Hancock: The right to a healthy environment is a vital election issue

Trevor Hancock: The right to a healthy environment is a vital election issue

Last week, I noted that none of the main 颅parties 鈥 those likely to form the next government 鈥 have yet recognized and accepted the scale of the global ecological crises we face, to which sa国际传媒 contributes disproportionately.
Geoff Johnson: High real estate prices make it hard to attract leaders

Geoff Johnson: High real estate prices make it hard to attract leaders

No successful organization would have become successful in the absence of 颅effective leadership. That鈥檚 axiomatic. Leadership means creating a vision and planning how to execute it, securing resources and seeking and remediating errors of the past.
Diving program that teaches Indigenous youth to harvest seafood taps into ancestral traditions

Diving program that teaches Indigenous youth to harvest seafood taps into ancestral traditions

Sheltered within a large tide pool along the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet, Kenneth Lucas took a deep breath before diving five metres to the ocean floor.
Indigenous hunting historically reduced sea-otter impact on shellfish, study finds

Indigenous hunting historically reduced sea-otter impact on shellfish, study finds

A new study has found that coastal Indigenous 颅communities have managed their relationship with shellfish and sea otters for millennia. Written by Erin Slade, Iain McKechnie and Anne K.
Monique Keiran: Return to school offers a small taste of normal

Monique Keiran: Return to school offers a small taste of normal

This week, more than 610,000 young people across sa国际传媒 will start attending classes in person. We used to take this for granted. It was routine, convention, tradition. For some, it was an annual rite of passage. Last year changed that.
Trevor Hancock: The planet-sized elephant in the election room

Trevor Hancock: The planet-sized elephant in the election room

In a December 2020 speech at Columbia 颅University, the UN secretary general said: 鈥淭he state of the planet is broken. 颅Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal,鈥 adding: 鈥淢aking peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century.
Our Community: Five-a-side mini soccer pitch for Tribal School; gingerbread callout

Our Community: Five-a-side mini soccer pitch for Tribal School; gingerbread callout

Youth living on the Tsartlip, Pauquachin, Tseycum and Tsawout reserves, as well as surrounding communities, will soon be able to play five-a-side mini-pitch soccer year-round, thanks to a donation by the Pacific Football Club and Canadian Premier Lea
Lawrie McFarlane: Medical professionals don't have the right to impose their own views

Lawrie McFarlane: Medical professionals don't have the right to impose their own views

In a recent column on the CBC website , Brian Bird, an assistant professor of law at the University of British Columbia, argued: 鈥淚t has long been accepted that 颅health-care workers in sa国际传媒 have a right to distance themselves from procedures that t
Geoff Johnson: Piling homework on kids is a mistake that undermines work/life balance

Geoff Johnson: Piling homework on kids is a mistake that undermines work/life balance

Many educators, me included, question the value, educationally and otherwise, of 颅homework.
Charla Huber: 'We are all one' message bridges cultural divides

Charla Huber: 'We are all one' message bridges cultural divides

This week, Jagmeet Singh was in Ladysmith to meet with NDP supporters at Transfer Beach.