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Geoff Johnson: Technology opens up whole new world to curious readers

Geoff Johnson: Technology opens up whole new world to curious readers

The significant changes that technology brings to teaching and learning were brought to mind one recent cool, smoky and sunless morning as I sat reading the Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny鈥檚 latest novel, All The Devils Are Here.
Please, stop calling these gold rush-era warehouses 'Junk' Buildings

Please, stop calling these gold rush-era warehouses 'Junk' Buildings

Due to a technical problem, the first part of Nick Russell's piece on the Northern Junk buildings did not appear in Sunday's Islander section. Click here for a PDF of the full two-page spread . What鈥檚 in a name? Quite a lot, if the name is 鈥淛unk.
Book excerpt: The story of the Island's first Black school teacher

Book excerpt: The story of the Island's first Black school teacher

Nanaimo author Haley Healey鈥檚 new book On Their Own Terms profiles the lives of seventeen Island women who made a mark on history. The excerpt below tells of pioneer Emma Stark, Vancouver Island鈥檚 first Black school teacher.
Trevor Hancock: 50-year-old sci-fi novel eerily prescient

Trevor Hancock: 50-year-old sci-fi novel eerily prescient

Contemplating an orange-red noon-day sun almost obscured by the smoke clouds roiling in from America, burning to the south, brought vividly to mind The Sheep Look Up by British author John Brunner, an eerily prescient science fiction novel I read alm
The Island, the border, and the plague

The Island, the border, and the plague

On March 30, the MV Coho exited Victoria Harbour without ceremony on its last voyage after the COVID-19 curtain had come down on cross-border travel, with just a handful of last U.S. returnees.
Vital People: Project aims to help women succeed in green economy

Vital People: Project aims to help women succeed in green economy

The Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria has embarked upon a project that sets its sights on addressing inequalities between genders by identifying current and future barriers to financial inclusion for women in the green economy.
Vital People: Program for adults with disabilities now online

Vital People: Program for adults with disabilities now online

The LifeStreams Learning program, a post-secondary learning path for young adults with autism and other developmental disabilities, has moved to online programming due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sandra Richardson: Inequalities revealed in survey by Vital Signs

Sandra Richardson: Inequalities revealed in survey by Vital Signs

Over the past few weeks we have seen an immense social movement arise demanding an end to systemic racism, and the violence and oppression it feeds.
Geoff Johnson: Kids will be kids, after all

Geoff Johnson: Kids will be kids, after all

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Mayor Lisa Helps: We'll be doing all we can to help small business

Mayor Lisa Helps: We'll be doing all we can to help small business

A commentary by the mayor of Victoria. Last Wednesday, Premier John Horgan unveiled sa国际传媒鈥檚 Restart Plan. It was welcome news to hear that we鈥檇 all be allowed out of our bubbles and back out into the world, slowly, cautiously and carefully.