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From the colonial past to the racist present

From the colonial past to the racist present

The terms of union and the attempted erasure of Indigenous Peoples
Monique Keiran: Remember when ISIS meant hope for the future?

Monique Keiran: Remember when ISIS meant hope for the future?

News of the recent release of a 颅four-year-old from an Islamic State detention camp in Syria, where she鈥檇 been detained with her Canadian mother, renews a years-long human-rights debate.
Charla Huber: My career is a result of access to affordable childcare

Charla Huber: My career is a result of access to affordable childcare

We know the pandemic is going to change a lot of things in our lives. After a year of this, our 鈥渙ld normal鈥 seems to be a distant memory.
Playful seal just one of the treats of night-time diving off Ogden Point

Playful seal just one of the treats of night-time diving off Ogden Point

Divers monitoring the waters off the Ogden Point breakwater at night have filmed a marine ecosystem rich with life and colour coinciding with the incoming tide.
Lawrie McFarlane: Everyone is related to everyone if you go back far enough

Lawrie McFarlane: Everyone is related to everyone if you go back far enough

In a recent letter to the editor, Cheera J. Crow of Brentwood Bay wrote that it鈥檚 颅nonsense to portray the British (and 颅Canadian) royal family as exclusively white.
Anny Scoones: Spring hikes, and random thoughts on the wisdom of Helen Chesnut

Anny Scoones: Spring hikes, and random thoughts on the wisdom of Helen Chesnut

Have you smelled spring yet? That rich fertile aroma of the wet, warming earth blended with the budding of new sprigs? So far, it seems to be a chilly spring with a bite to the air, and it鈥檚 blustery! Although brisk, it鈥檚 a fine time to bundle up and
Our Community: Ford donates trucks for automotive students; Habitat's door-art project

Our Community: Ford donates trucks for automotive students; Habitat's door-art project

Ford donates trucks for automotive students Ford Motor Company of sa国际传媒 has donated two flood-damaged 2020 Ford F-150 trucks to Camosun College for its automotive service training program.
Geoff Johnson: Pandemic upheaval an opportunity to re-examine public education

Geoff Johnson: Pandemic upheaval an opportunity to re-examine public education

Shakespeare, speaking through the 颅character of Brutus in the drama Julius Caesar, reminds us: 鈥淭here is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Trevor Hancock: Creating communities fit for the 21st century

Trevor Hancock: Creating communities fit for the 21st century

Last week, I noted three ways proposed by Prof. Graham Smith to reform our 颅democracy to safeguard the future, and dealt with two of them: re-shaping legislatures and constitutions and bringing an independent voice to decision-making.
Museum exhibit showcases wonder, challenges facing orcas

Museum exhibit showcases wonder, challenges facing orcas

He was known as Ruffles and numbered J1. The big male orca, named for his tall jagged dorsal fin, was one of the first southern resident killer whales identified by scientists in J-Pod in the 1970s.