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Charla Huber: Red dresses are a reminder for us all

Charla Huber: Red dresses are a reminder for us all

A few weeks ago, I created a small community activity that encouraged families to decorate boats and float them in local waterways and post photos on social media.
Trevor Hancock: Throne speech and budget fail future generations

Trevor Hancock: Throne speech and budget fail future generations

The sa国际传媒 budget, delivered two days before Earth Day, confirmed what the throne speech had already shown: the environment is very much an after-thought for the NDP government, tacked on at the end and lacking any real substance.
Our Community: HeroWork renovates Salvation Army kitchen

Our Community: HeroWork renovates Salvation Army kitchen

HeroWork sa国际传媒 has begun a renovation valued at $760,000 for the Salvation Army Victoria Addictions and Rehabilitation Centre. The work centres around the rebuilding of a 39-year-old commercial kitchen that serves more than 15,000 meals a month.
Lawrie McFarlane: If Ottawa continues on current path, public sector will bear scars for years

Lawrie McFarlane: If Ottawa continues on current path, public sector will bear scars for years

sa国际传媒鈥檚 Parliamentary Budget Officer has published a pre-budget offering that reminds you of that scene at the beginning of the 1998 move Armageddon in which a massive asteroid slams into Earth, shattering continents and causing an extinction-level
Trevor Hancock: Memo to John Horgan: Don't blow it for the next generation

Trevor Hancock: Memo to John Horgan: Don't blow it for the next generation

I was struck by the immense irony of John Horgan鈥檚 recent exhortation to young people not to blow it for the rest of us with respect to COVID.
Charla Huber: Be mindful about celebrating your vaccination

Charla Huber: Be mindful about celebrating your vaccination

As we continue with the vaccination phase of this pandemic, more articles are emerging about etiquette and how we choose to celebrate our vaccinations.
Takaya the wolf inspires contest winners

Takaya the wolf inspires contest winners

Takaya, the lone wolf that lived on Discovery Island, continues to inspire adults and children a year after his death.
Geoff Johnson: Alberta proposed curriculum changes about politics, not learning

Geoff Johnson: Alberta proposed curriculum changes about politics, not learning

Dinner-table conversation with Alberta鈥檚 five- and six-year-old children or grandchildren could become much more challenging if curriculum advisers, hand-picked by the Alberta government, are successful in having their recommended changes to the kind
Anny Scoones: The human face of landscape architecture

Anny Scoones: The human face of landscape architecture

After Dad died a while back in Saint John, NB, I drove his new colossal, rather lumbering (albeit smooth) Japanese car across sa国际传媒 back to Medana Street in James Bay where I live.
Book excerpt: Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures

Book excerpt: Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures

Victoria-based author Moira Dann has always been fascinated by Confederation-era social history.