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Anny Scoones: That's not a bomb, it's just a load of baloney

Anny Scoones: That's not a bomb, it's just a load of baloney

Often, I run out of space or time to cover all the book suggestions (and activities that books provoke), so I am devoting this 颅column to catching up with two books, 颅beginning with 鈥 Feast: Recipes and Stories From a 颅Canadian Road Trip by Lindsay A
Our Community: Restaurants battle it out for Our Place; ReStore celebrates 30 years

Our Community: Restaurants battle it out for Our Place; ReStore celebrates 30 years

May the best dish win Our Place is planning a multi-pronged approach to Hungry Hearts, its annual 颅fundraiser, with a Land and Sea culinary competition, an online auction and a virtual gala.
Trevor Hancock: sa国际传媒's 'natural gas' is both unnatural and unhealthy

Trevor Hancock: sa国际传媒's 'natural gas' is both unnatural and unhealthy

If you have used the Tsawwassen ferry 颅terminal this past week, chances are you will have seen a large billboard asking 鈥淗ow healthy is natural gas?鈥 and pointing you to a website 鈥 unnaturalgas.org.
Monique Keiran: Chemical flame retardants increase danger levels

Monique Keiran: Chemical flame retardants increase danger levels

If a substance used to increase public safety is found to be highly poisonous, a careful weighing of risks against benefits is in order. If the same substance is found to worsen, not improve, safety, we should all ask why it continues to be used.
Bats behaving strangely: Young ones learning to fly, others escaping heat, smoke

Bats behaving strangely: Young ones learning to fly, others escaping heat, smoke

Bats 鈥 long associated with vampires and 颅superheroes and most often seen at night 鈥 are increasingly being noticed in daylight hours and behaving, well, kind of strangely.
Anny Scoones: Learn more about our historic sites with a book

Anny Scoones: Learn more about our historic sites with a book

I spent last weekend venturing to several of Victoria鈥檚 historic sites. I first strolled around the lawns and 颅gardens at Government House, free of charge to all throughout the day until sunset 鈥 hmmm, sunset.
Monique Keiran: Whatever we flush affects marine life

Monique Keiran: Whatever we flush affects marine life

Southern resident orcas are among the most contaminated marine mammals in the world.
Charla Huber: Let's not normalize the impact of cancel culture

Charla Huber: Let's not normalize the impact of cancel culture

Cancel culture is a relatively new 颅phenomenon. Adults can see that this as a new trend emerging, but for children, they may not remember anything else.
Trevor Hancock: If we lose the carbon sinks, we are sunk

Trevor Hancock: If we lose the carbon sinks, we are sunk

An important new report from the 颅Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states bluntly: 鈥淐limate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying.
Lawrie McFarlane: Politicians must not treat virus with economy-wrecking measures

Lawrie McFarlane: Politicians must not treat virus with economy-wrecking measures

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau鈥檚 plan to call an election today has been one of the 颅worst-kept secrets in recent history, 颅considering all of the hints of late.