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Pandemic pivot: For some, COVID-19 triggers positive life changes

Pandemic pivot: For some, COVID-19 triggers positive life changes

Disruptive, economically and personally devastating, inconvenient and in some cases life-altering and deadly: There is no question the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a massive toll.
Charla Huber: Long wait for digital vaccine passport a good sign

Charla Huber: Long wait for digital vaccine passport a good sign

This has been a week of 颅waiting for me. I spent the long 颅weekend at the Saanich Fair with my daughter, her friends and a 颅fellow mom. I had never been to the Saanich Fair before, and there was no better time to go than the present.
Lawrie McFarlane: We get the judges we put up with

Lawrie McFarlane: We get the judges we put up with

Around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, an Esquimalt woman screamed as she saw a man trying to climb through her bedroom window. Though he persisted, she managed to keep him out until a group of neighbours stepped in and held him till the police arrived.
Monique Keiran: Why did some students' grades soar when learning went online?

Monique Keiran: Why did some students' grades soar when learning went online?

Provincial health officer Bonnie Henry emphasized earlier this year the importance of sa国际传媒鈥檚 universities and colleges returning to in-person classes due to the pandemic鈥檚 impacts on students.
Trevor Hancock: The right to a healthy environment is a vital election issue

Trevor Hancock: The right to a healthy environment is a vital election issue

Last week, I noted that none of the main 颅parties 鈥 those likely to form the next government 鈥 have yet recognized and accepted the scale of the global ecological crises we face, to which sa国际传媒 contributes disproportionately.
Geoff Johnson: High real estate prices make it hard to attract leaders

Geoff Johnson: High real estate prices make it hard to attract leaders

No successful organization would have become successful in the absence of 颅effective leadership. That鈥檚 axiomatic. Leadership means creating a vision and planning how to execute it, securing resources and seeking and remediating errors of the past.
Diving program that teaches Indigenous youth to harvest seafood taps into ancestral traditions

Diving program that teaches Indigenous youth to harvest seafood taps into ancestral traditions

Sheltered within a large tide pool along the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet, Kenneth Lucas took a deep breath before diving five metres to the ocean floor.
Indigenous hunting historically reduced sea-otter impact on shellfish, study finds

Indigenous hunting historically reduced sea-otter impact on shellfish, study finds

A new study has found that coastal Indigenous 颅communities have managed their relationship with shellfish and sea otters for millennia. Written by Erin Slade, Iain McKechnie and Anne K.
Monique Keiran: Return to school offers a small taste of normal

Monique Keiran: Return to school offers a small taste of normal

This week, more than 610,000 young people across sa国际传媒 will start attending classes in person. We used to take this for granted. It was routine, convention, tradition. For some, it was an annual rite of passage. Last year changed that.
Trevor Hancock: The planet-sized elephant in the election room

Trevor Hancock: The planet-sized elephant in the election room

In a December 2020 speech at Columbia 颅University, the UN secretary general said: 鈥淭he state of the planet is broken. 颅Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal,鈥 adding: 鈥淢aking peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century.