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Lawrie McFarlane: Could a vaccine prevent type 1 diabetes?

Lawrie McFarlane: Could a vaccine prevent type 1 diabetes?

Researchers in Norway and Finland believe a vaccine that could prevent type 1 diabetes could be developed, 颅possibly within a few years, writes Lawrie McFarlane, but this is still a work in progress.
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Monique Keiran: As restrictions lift, so does the gloom of winter

Monique Keiran: As restrictions lift, so does the gloom of winter

It must be spring: Temperatures are warming up, and the daffodils and plum blossoms are showing their colours.
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Poop: The incredible journey. It starts with a flush and ends with a fuel

Poop: The incredible journey. It starts with a flush and ends with a fuel

$775 million later 鈥� how and where our sewage flows. Total time from your toilet to the treatment plant, if you live near the University of Victoria, for example, is just under three hours.
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Treating Greater Victoria's sewage: Cleaner ocean, but 'kinks' remain

Treating Greater Victoria's sewage: Cleaner ocean, but 'kinks' remain

After stops and starts and years of infighting among municipalities about where to locate the plant, sewage treatment is finally happening in Greater Victoria. One year in, we check in on how it's going.
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Trevor Hancock: Freedom 鈥� the real deal versus infantile foot stomping

Trevor Hancock: Freedom 鈥� the real deal versus infantile foot stomping

From a public-health perspective, I find it useful to distinguish between what might be called healthy and unhealthy freedom.
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The road to sewage treatment: A timeline

The road to sewage treatment: A timeline

Prior to 2020, Greater Victoria's sewage, after rudimentary screening, was flushed raw into the ocean
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Charla Huber: Why I booked a Ukrainian vacation I don't plan to take

Charla Huber: Why I booked a Ukrainian vacation I don't plan to take

I found my way onto the Airbnb website, looking at home-rental options in Ukraine
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Geoff Johnson: Student journalists turn spat with administration into draft law

Geoff Johnson: Student journalists turn spat with administration into draft law

The Hamber students involved with the student newspaper did not waste time with the kind of futile street demonstrations some grownups seem to prefer.
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Monique Keiran: Fast-tracking of pot legalization came with a cost on roads

Monique Keiran: Fast-tracking of pot legalization came with a cost on roads

A study found that 颅combining cannabis and alcohol impairs driving ability to a far greater extent than either substance used on its own does.
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Star struck: New space telescope promises to take astronomers back in time

Star struck: New space telescope promises to take astronomers back in time

Victoria astronomer reaches for the first stars with the help of dazzling new James Webb telescope.
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