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Trevor Hancock: Sadly, sa国际传媒 is still treating nature as resource to be exploited

Trevor Hancock: Sadly, sa国际传媒 is still treating nature as resource to be exploited

In this series of columns, I am exploring the UN鈥檚 call for humanity to make peace with nature. Last week, I noted that sa国际传媒鈥檚 颅government is failing to act, or is taking inadequate action, on climate change. This week, I look at sa国际传媒
Trevor Hancock: sa国际传媒 fails to take adequate action on climate crisis

Trevor Hancock: sa国际传媒 fails to take adequate action on climate crisis

By recognizing that 鈥渉umanity is waging war on nature,鈥 the United Nations arrived at the idea of making peace with nature. Regrettably, the sa国际传媒
Monique Keiran: COVID may not be the only pandemic in this lifetime

Monique Keiran: COVID may not be the only pandemic in this lifetime

It was a random conversation among 颅strangers who met by chance one day in a Victoria-area park.
New book opens door to world of sa国际传媒's mushrooms

New book opens door to world of sa国际传媒's mushrooms

I had casually observed fungi before 鈥 on lawns, stuck on neighbourhood trees and in neat fairy rings in parks. But it was the first time I consciously went looking.
Lawrie McFarlane: COVID limitations are hurting our social lives

Lawrie McFarlane: COVID limitations are hurting our social lives

Climate-wise, Victoria is considered part of the temperate zone. But during this past year or two, civility-wise we鈥檝e verged into the intemperate zone.
Geoff Johnson: Have your opinion, but stick to the facts

Geoff Johnson: Have your opinion, but stick to the facts

Today, misinformation is more easily 颅available than actual information, and 颅possibly more influential in terms of some people鈥檚 thinking.
Charla Huber: Asking for pronouns can cause anxiety

Charla Huber: Asking for pronouns can cause anxiety

You may have noticed on email signatures, name tags and Twitter handles people are adding their pronouns. Even on many Zoom calls people add their pronouns next to their displayed name. Common pronouns used are 鈥渟he/her,鈥 鈥渉e/him鈥 or 鈥渢hey/them.
Our Community: Auxiliary revamp helps to reassure kids

Our Community: Auxiliary revamp helps to reassure kids

Children who have to visit the Child and Family Ambulatory Unit at Victoria 颅General Hospital for bloodwork and other lab procedures will now find the experience less stressful thanks to a $150,000 renovation of the laboratory area funded by the Vict
Charla Huber: New job, but I鈥檒l still remember my roots

Charla Huber: New job, but I鈥檒l still remember my roots

There is a common Indigenous teaching that says 鈥渞emember where you come from.鈥 We all have a starting place and since birth we have taken many small strides to get us where we are today.
Lawrie McFarlane: With COVID-19, where should ethical lines be drawn?

Lawrie McFarlane: With COVID-19, where should ethical lines be drawn?

The question has been raised, if hospital intensive care units on the Island become swamped with COVID-19 patients (as they already are in Northern sa国际传媒