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With Step 3 of B.C.鈥檚 COVID-19 restart plan in force, more is happening on our streets than we鈥檝e seen since early 2020. More employees are trekking to and from the office, people are now meeting to socialize, and travellers have hit the highways.

In last week鈥檚 column, I referred to 颅gargantuan social media photo-sharing app Instagram as having a million followers. An eagle-eyed professional editor pointed out to me that in fact, Instagram has a billion weekly followers, not a measly million.

In Canada, we are 80 per cent urbanized and spend 90 per cent of our time indoors, 颅making the built environment one of the most important determinants of our health.

Everything in an ecosystem is connected. A tiny sapling relies on a towering ancient tree, just like a newborn baby depends on its mother.

Gorge event raises money for swim fest The Snowbirds flying above and supporters cheering her from shore were some of the highlights of Marlaina Rhymer鈥檚 颅fundraising swim for the Gorge Swim Fest Society on Monday.

I grew up watching The Jetsons and was always a big fan of the show. I even went to see The Jetsons movie in theatres when I聽was eight. Watching The Jetsons as a child made me think about what the future would be like.

At some point, beautiful artistic books became what we call coffee-table books, which means they sat on a table looking attractive and collecting dust, serving not only as decoration but to communicate the intelligence of the home鈥檚 owner.

Alberta鈥檚 health minister, his wife and two young sons were mobbed and cursed at during a Canada Day celebration in 颅Calgary. Tyler Shandro was accused of destroying 鈥渢housands and 颅thousands of Alberta lives鈥� by one tormenter.

Last week, nine First Nations came together to speak in a collective voice against the violence and vandalism occurring in our region.

Last week, I wrote that cookbooks have become a source of beauty, ideas and inspiration, nutritional knowledge and pleasurable perusal, at the same time as food has turned into art, a graceful display of creativity.