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Monique Keiran: Housing is important, but so are natural spaces

Monique Keiran: Housing is important, but so are natural spaces

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Our Community: Boy's shaved locks to go to kids with cancer

Our Community: Boy's shaved locks to go to kids with cancer

Twelve-year-old Thomas Joe had his first haircut in 30 months this past week, with his 24-inch locks to be donated and made into wigs for children with cancer. Thomas, who is in Grade 6 at St.
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Charla Huber: There are good reasons for the $789-million museum project

Charla Huber: There are good reasons for the $789-million museum project

One outcome of our pandemic 颅experience is disconnect, and it鈥檚 not surprising.
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Trevor Hancock: When Canada permits loss of marshes, forests, it's a carbon bomber

Trevor Hancock: When Canada permits loss of marshes, forests, it's a carbon bomber

The concept of the 颅carbon budget 鈥� the amount of CO2 that can be released into the 颅atmosphere globally without pushing global heating above 1.5 C 鈥� is key to understanding carbon bombs.
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Monique Keiran: If you're gardening this spring, you're an optimist

Monique Keiran: If you're gardening this spring, you're an optimist

"Gardening is an exercise in 颅optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience." That was certainly the case this spring in B.C.
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Geoff Johnson: Colleges increasingly waiving standardized tests for admission

Geoff Johnson: Colleges increasingly waiving standardized tests for admission

Nearly 2,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. have publicly announced that they will not require the SAT or American College Testing for admission in fall 2022.
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Lawrie McFarlane: Court verdict on extreme intoxication fails common-sense test

Lawrie McFarlane: Court verdict on extreme intoxication fails common-sense test

If an intoxicated man can summon the will and physical 颅self-mastery to break into a woman's bedroom, overpower and rape her, can we really say he doesn't know what he's doing?
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Climate change is expanding the range of these tick pathogens 鈥� is B.C. next?

Climate change is expanding the range of these tick pathogens 鈥� is B.C. next?

As reported cases of Lyme disease surge across Canada, B.C. experts are tracking how climate change could make things worse, and hope the public 鈥� empowered with a new 'Instagram for ticks' 鈥� will help.
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Decision on future of B.C. salmon farms to come within 'weeks,' says DFO

Decision on future of B.C. salmon farms to come within 'weeks,' says DFO

B.C. politicians were targeted in sea lice office 'outbreak' as the federal government says its within weeks of making a decision on the province's salmon farm industry 鈥斅燼 move meant to protect wild 91原创 salmon from disease.
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Salt-marsh superpower: Blue marshlands store as much carbon as green forests

Salt-marsh superpower: Blue marshlands store as much carbon as green forests

The battle to save a mother lode of carbon in Cowichan-Koksilah Estuary
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