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There are 11 names on or near Vancouver Island that appear on a new map of places named for women in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. Tatsno Lakes: Freda Berkley and Miss Hester The name Tatsno is of Kawitshin origin, and means “my younger sister.

Creatively United for the Planet is promoting Show Your Love for the Forest, a curated pair of getaway packages to be awarded to donors to Habitat Acquisition Trust’s Mountain Road Forest fundraising campaign. The group is looking to purchase a 19.

One of the saddest photographs I have seen is the immigration passport image of Dad’s Polish family from 1925. Dad was just a baby in the picture.

Well, this past flu season has been a bust — not that anyone is complaining. In fact, with no evidence of community circulation of influenza across sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ at all over the past five months, we can’t even say a 2020-2021 flu season occurred.

Too often, politics is focused on the short term. We see it everywhere: Support for clear-cutting the last stands of old-growth forest, fishing to the last fish, maintaining and even expanding the fossil-fuel industry — the list goes on.

Learning to read is a lifelong process, and I’m content to admit that after 40 years in public education, two university degrees and a lasting love of books, I’m still involved in that process.

An interactive map celebrating the roles of women in 500 locations across the country will help Canadians understand how towns and cities, rivers and lakes and major geographical landmarks — even undersea formations — got their names.

Bias, stereotypes, and racism have been big topics over this past year. There have been movements and news events that turned the attention to these tough topics, which ­ultimately led to even tougher conversations.

It becomes clearer by the day that once the COVID-19 crisis passes, a major restoration program is needed for our capital city.

It’s been a year since COVID-19 was labelled a pandemic, lockdown measures became the norm and the terms social-distancing, contact tracing and flattening the curve became part of the global language.