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Our Community: Sponsoring Syrian refugees, naked bungy jump for mental health

Our Community: Sponsoring Syrian refugees, naked bungy jump for mental health

A Cowichan Valley group is looking for financial help to sponsor a Syrian refugee family, while WildPlay Element Parks of Nanaimo hosts the Naked Bungy Jump for Mental Health.
Geoff Johnson: Homework can lead to repetition of mistakes, take a toll on family life

Geoff Johnson: Homework can lead to repetition of mistakes, take a toll on family life

For the majority of kids, there is life after school that need not always involve more schoolwork.
Trevor Hancock: Self-care must be a strategic priority for the health system

Trevor Hancock: Self-care must be a strategic priority for the health system

If we really want to reduce the burden on the illness-care system, we need to prioritize self-care, so people do not inappropriately access the system.
Monique Keiran: Cooler weather good for coast's maple syrup producers

Monique Keiran: Cooler weather good for coast's maple syrup producers

While syrup producers in the east look forward to warmer temperatures to get their trees鈥 sap flowing, B.C. producers need the reverse. Optimal conditions are just below freezing at night and just above in the day.
Charla Huber: Watching someone’s possessions at Our Place turns into a valuable lesson

Charla Huber: Watching someone’s possessions at Our Place turns into a valuable lesson

The experience was a reminder that folks with very few possessions are at risk of losing them every day, because of something as simple as using the washroom.
The grandmothers: M茅tis cultural treasures find their way home

The grandmothers: M茅tis cultural treasures find their way home

As museums come under increasing pressure to repatriate Indigenous cultural items, M茅tis author Gregory Scofield has gone to rescue them himself.
Charla Huber: A lesson in the pool about being right, or being kind

Charla Huber: A lesson in the pool about being right, or being kind

A woman who insists on swimming the 鈥渞ight鈥 direction at the pool ends up in a game of chicken with her fellow lane swimmers 鈥 and in the process becomes a living metaphor for how not to act.
Trevor Hancock: Public policy as if health matters

Trevor Hancock: Public policy as if health matters

To create a wellbeing society and develop healthy public policies, governments must put people and the planet at the heart of decision-making.
Our Community: Firefighters climb 48 storeys in gear for fundraiser, Roses from Rotary

Our Community: Firefighters climb 48 storeys in gear for fundraiser, Roses from Rotary

Firefighters from Greater Victoria are among the 219 who have signed up for the B.C. Lung Foundation鈥檚 22nd Climb the Wall fundraising event at the Sheraton 91原创 Wall Centre on Sunday.
Monique Keiran: Halibut treaty marked new era in 91原创 independence

Monique Keiran: Halibut treaty marked new era in 91原创 independence

The Halibut Treaty of 1923 is the first environmental treaty designed to conserve ocean stocks of a fish, and Canada insisted on signing it with the U.S. without Britain鈥檚 ratification