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If, as a parent of kids ages six to 16, you are not familiar with Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YoLo, Spotify or any of the other online or social-media sites your kids use, it may be time for a 颅little research.

Fundraiser for victims of Lytton wildfire You can help residents of the fire-devastated Fraser River town of Lytton by attending a fundraising dinner at the Union Club Aug. 4, with CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie as a guest speaker.

From time to time, fierce debates erupt over 颅proposals to introduce more dense 颅housing into residential 颅neighbourhoods.

By the time you drive into Port Renfrew 鈥� whether it鈥檚 from Victoria or Nanaimo 鈥� chances are, you鈥檙e going to be at half a tank of gas or less, so your first stop is likely to be the Pacheedaht Gas Bar.

Headline writers naturally love big numbers. A story flagged with 鈥�300,000 march for justice鈥� grabs more attention than 鈥�12聽rally downtown to protest mask requirements.

Before the logging roads were built, Pacheedaht elder Bill Jones鈥� grandfather used to paddle up the San Juan River to Fairy Lake. From the lake, he would walk up to Fairy Creek and sit in the pools to bathe, pray and meditate.

For the third time running, 颅federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu has delayed the 颅introduction of new rules to reduce the price of drugs.

鈥淲e are not the museum we wanted to be. And we鈥檙e not the museum we should be,鈥� Royal B.C. Museum Acting CEO Dan Musyka was quoted as saying June 29 in these pages.

Author Lewis Carroll鈥檚 颅skepticism about the range and purposes of 鈥渞egular鈥� 颅education, as expressed through his 1865 classic Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland, spoke volumes about the limits of public 颅education of the time.

Two weeks ago, my column on why we need to stop subsidising industries that harm our planet and our health was published at the height of the heat 颅emergency that affected B.C.