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Our Community: Fundraising provides little libraries with truth and reconciliation books

Our Community: Fundraising provides little libraries with truth and reconciliation books

The Greater Victoria Placemaking Network has launched the Little Free Library Truth and Reconciliation Book Project, a fundraising campaign to purchase children鈥檚 and young adult books about truth and reconciliation from local and Indigenous authors.
Perfect storm: Wet, windy winter could be last straw for drought-stressed trees

Perfect storm: Wet, windy winter could be last straw for drought-stressed trees

And so it begins. A falling tree hits a power line in North Saanich, knocking out power to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal. sa国际传媒 Ferries is unable to lift its loading ramps. 颅Several sailings are cancelled.
Geoff Johnson: Celebrating art does not condone the artist

Geoff Johnson: Celebrating art does not condone the artist

In a recent column that was partly about the increasingly popular anti-science 颅movement, I quoted controversial right-wing philosopher and writer Ayn Rand as 颅saying: 鈥淩eason is the only means of acquiring knowledge.
Monique Keiran: Beware of sa国际传媒鈥檚 susceptibility to landslides

Monique Keiran: Beware of sa国际传媒鈥檚 susceptibility to landslides

In September, as the season鈥檚 first big storm swept through, the sa国际传媒 Ministry of 颅Transportation closed Highway 1 between Lytton and Spences Bridge.
Trevor Hancock: 鈥楽ystem-wide transformation鈥 needed to rebalance ourselves with nature

Trevor Hancock: 鈥楽ystem-wide transformation鈥 needed to rebalance ourselves with nature

Last week, I mentioned the United Nations鈥 call for a 鈥減eace plan鈥 and a 鈥減ost-war rebuilding program鈥 as central to our need to make peace with nature.
Monique Keiran: Bumper year for acorns makes flak jacket essential for yard work

Monique Keiran: Bumper year for acorns makes flak jacket essential for yard work

Now that the rains have started, the grass has started growing again. 鈥淚 feel like I need a helmet and flak jacket out here,鈥 Nature Boy said recently as he wheeled the lawnmower out of storage.
Seafood shortage: It鈥檚 more complex than just overfishing, insiders say

Seafood shortage: It鈥檚 more complex than just overfishing, insiders say

If you have been following the headlines this past year, you might think there is a dire shortage of sa国际传媒 seafood, mostly due to reckless overfishing, and that if we want to save what is left, we should eat less of it.
Lawrie McFarlane: Tories must remake their party if they want to win power

Lawrie McFarlane: Tories must remake their party if they want to win power

Now that the federal Conservatives have lost two back-to-back elections they should have won, the time has come for some honest soul-searching. And it starts at the top.
Charla Huber: The growth of Orange Shirt Day is refreshing

Charla Huber: The growth of Orange Shirt Day is refreshing

This past Thursday was the Inaugural National Day of Truth of Reconciliation. I started writing these columns back in 2017, and each year, I make sure to honour Orange Shirt Day and raise awareness through my columns.
Geoff Johnson: Intellectual narcissism is a danger to public discourse

Geoff Johnson: Intellectual narcissism is a danger to public discourse

It is hard to say which is currently more destructive: the worldwide spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus or the 颅accompanying outbreak of irrational assertions that 颅trigger the 鈥渄ebate鈥 about vaccines, wearing masks, the role of science and the 颅imp