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Pictures of a life: A box of old photographs tells the story of a mother's journey

Pictures of a life: A box of old photographs tells the story of a mother's journey

A box of old photographs and passports sits in the basement. I bring the box upstairs. Sitting on the rug in the living room, I turn the box upside down and spread out the contents.
Monique Keiran: Summer fires could bring smoke that makes COVID-19 worse

Monique Keiran: Summer fires could bring smoke that makes COVID-19 worse

Hello, pandemic summer 2021. Record temperatures, a months-long drought across southern areas of the province, and an out-of-control wildfire in the Interior have rung in the season. While many B.C.
Lawrie McFarlane: Kenney is playing with fire with referendum on equalization

Lawrie McFarlane: Kenney is playing with fire with referendum on equalization

The government of Alberta will hold a referendum this 颅October asking Albertans if they want equalization 颅payments 颅withdrawn from the 颅Constitution. The alleged 颅purpose is to focus attention on what many Albertans consider an unfair system.
Our Community: Canoe launch for Indigenous Peoples Day; dog calendar seeks pooch pics

Our Community: Canoe launch for Indigenous Peoples Day; dog calendar seeks pooch pics

Write on! Two 91原创 Island students were runners-up in Habitat for Humanity Canada鈥檚 annual Meaning of Home writing 颅contest. The contest encourages students in grades 4, 5 and 6 to share what home means to them through a poem or short essay.
Trevor Hancock: Stop subsidies to 'corporate welfare bums' that harm our health

Trevor Hancock: Stop subsidies to 'corporate welfare bums' that harm our health

One of the frequent complaints by the proponents of neoliberal economics and small 颅government and their corporate supporters is that there is a lot of waste in government.
Anny Scoones: Red Dress project shows shift in public art from shocking to quietly symbolic

Anny Scoones: Red Dress project shows shift in public art from shocking to quietly symbolic

Do you enjoy public art, sculpture and monuments, and have you considered its relevance? The intent of public art is so very diverse. Some monuments and sculpture remind us to never forget the horrors and ravages of war.
Geoff Johnson: Are storm clouds gathering over principals' lack of bargaining rights?

Geoff Johnson: Are storm clouds gathering over principals' lack of bargaining rights?

On March 18, 2020, the 颅Southeast Kootenay Principals鈥 and Vice Principals鈥 Association applied to the Labour Relations Board for certification to be the 颅exclusive bargaining agent for all principals, vice-principals and district principals employed
Charla Huber: If you want to be an ally to First Nations, respect their protocols

Charla Huber: If you want to be an ally to First Nations, respect their protocols

I nearly stood up in front of my computer and clapped when I聽read the letter written by Chief Ron Sam of Songhees Nation and Chief Rob Thomas of Esquimalt Nation that ran on June 15 in the Times 91原创.
Our Community: Collecting bikes for Africa, teeny tiny gardens

Our Community: Collecting bikes for Africa, teeny tiny gardens

Bicycles for Humanity collecting bikes for Africa Bicycles for Humanity Victoria still have room for good used bikes, financial donations and spare parts as they fill their 12th shipping container full of bikes bound for Africa.
Anny Scoones: 91原创's mountains, architecture the perfect COVID escape

Anny Scoones: 91原创's mountains, architecture the perfect COVID escape

The first little vacation I plan to take when we 鈥渙pen up鈥 is to 91原创. I love V颅ancouver and lived there, in a little beige apartment in the West End, when I first left home by train, from Fredericton, N.B., in 1978.