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Lawrie McFarlane: National effort required to solve housing shortfall

Lawrie McFarlane: National effort required to solve housing shortfall

We need a countrywide approach; restore CMHC's mandate to build and finance low-income housing nationally
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Geoff Johnson: Teachers' union, First Nations leaders at odds over value of standardized testing for students

Geoff Johnson: Teachers' union, First Nations leaders at odds over value of standardized testing for students

sa国际传媒's teachers' union opposes large-scale standardized testing for young students, but First Nations leaders see value in Foundation Skills Assessment tests
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Monique Keiran: Rising temperatures take toll on coastal waters

Monique Keiran: Rising temperatures take toll on coastal waters

Without natural predators, sea urchins quickly devour entire kelp forests, creating seafloor deserts known as 鈥渦rchin barrens.鈥�
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Trevor Hancock: Well-being society needs a well-being economy

Trevor Hancock: Well-being society needs a well-being economy

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Charla Huber: Dear TC readers, thanks for brightening my day

Charla Huber: Dear TC readers, thanks for brightening my day

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Heat dome made British Columbians more anxious. Could prescribing nature help?

Heat dome made British Columbians more anxious. Could prescribing nature help?

A new study has found the heat dome that scorched British Columbia in late June 2021 led to a 13 per cent average rise in anxiety over the effects of climate change. Now, some doctors are looking at prescribing nature as a solution
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Could artificial intelligence help people survive one of the world's deadliest diseases?

Could artificial intelligence help people survive one of the world's deadliest diseases?

Sepsis is responsible for one in five deaths worldwide, and is likely an underlying cause of COVID-19 deaths. Now a Vancouver immunologist says he's found a key solution using artificial intelligence
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Ghost gear: Debris from fishing and oyster farms lurks underwater, endangering sea life

Ghost gear: Debris from fishing and oyster farms lurks underwater, endangering sea life

Abandoned oyster and other aquaculture farms of the west coast of Vancouver Island are death traps to salmon, herring, marine mammals and myriad sea life 鈥� and nobody really knows how many are out there.
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Our Community: Jeneece Place turns 10, fire chief runs for Wounded Warriors

Our Community: Jeneece Place turns 10, fire chief runs for Wounded Warriors

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Lawrie McFarlane: Webb telescope aims to see farther than ever before

Lawrie McFarlane: Webb telescope aims to see farther than ever before

The $10-billion Webb telescope is the most powerful such instrument ever launched. If all goes well, it will see back in time to very near the beginnings of the universe.
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