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Our Community: Bottle drive supports Camp Barnard

Our Community: Bottle drive supports Camp Barnard

You can support Scouts sa国际传媒鈥檚 Camp Barnard and other properties by taking your empties to a monthly bottle drive organized by the 30th Baden-Powell Guild.
The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve

The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve

Excerpt from Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve by Elizabeth May
Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front

Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front

A excerpt from Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Jacqueline Larson Carmichael (Heritage House, 2020)
Trevor Hancock: We need a centre focused on creating healthy, just, sustainable communities

Trevor Hancock: We need a centre focused on creating healthy, just, sustainable communities

Today, the University of Victoria welcomes a new president.
Monique Keiran: Dropping sizes show salmon not sticking around as long in the sea

Monique Keiran: Dropping sizes show salmon not sticking around as long in the sea

No salmon pauses to consider whether swimming thousands of kilometres through streams, roaring rivers and ocean, then all the way back again is a good idea.
Gwyn Morgan: Beware easy solutions when it comes to reducing global emissions

Gwyn Morgan: Beware easy solutions when it comes to reducing global emissions

The combination of wildfires along the U.S. Pacific Coast, two simultaneous hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, melting glaciers and peat bog fires in sa国际传媒 and an unusually hot summer in Europe has raised global-warming fears to frenzied proportions.
Geoff Johnson: Outdoor learning is an idea whose time has come

Geoff Johnson: Outdoor learning is an idea whose time has come

If the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed anything worthwhile to the organization and delivery of public education, it would be the challenge it has provided to the notion that teaching and learning is best conducted in an 80-square-metre classroom, 2
Lawrie McFarlane: Renters should have the right to live in a pet-free building

Lawrie McFarlane: Renters should have the right to live in a pet-free building

Vancouver city council has passed a motion calling for an end to pet bans in rental accommodation. The vote was unanimous.
Charla Huber: My kid caught a cold and got a COVID test

Charla Huber: My kid caught a cold and got a COVID test

My daughter has been going to school this fall. We know that there are risks in sending kids back to school and we all know that kids catch colds from each other.
The French connection: How studying in France fundamentally changed Emily Carr's art

The French connection: How studying in France fundamentally changed Emily Carr's art

Emily Carr is best known for her wild, vivid paintings of the sa国际传媒 coast.