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This is a closer look at an issue I raised earlier this month. Recent events have given added weight to the matter. When hospitals have insufficient resources to treat everyone, triage is the practice used to decide who gets help.

A rare display of aurora borealis lit up the night sky over the south coast a couple of weeks ago. On Oct. 12, beginning around 9:30聽p.m., even those living in the Lower Mainland and on the Island had the chance to enjoy the light show.

Provincial health officer Bonnie Henry is one of 25 recipients of the City of 颅Victoria鈥檚 2021 Honorary Citizen Awards, which 颅recognize individuals for outstanding 颅service and personal achievements for the betterment of the community.

When I worked as a newspaper reporter, each year I ordered a special planner book that I could easily tuck inside my camera bag, and I took it everywhere. In it, I recorded every interview, 颅meeting and photo op that I needed to attend.

In this series of columns, I am exploring the UN鈥檚 call for humanity to make peace with nature. Last week, I noted that B.C.鈥檚 颅government is failing to act, or is taking inadequate action, on climate change. This week, I look at B.C.

By recognizing that 鈥渉umanity is waging war on nature,鈥� the United Nations arrived at the idea of making peace with nature. Regrettably, the B.C.

It was a random conversation among 颅strangers who met by chance one day in a Victoria-area park.

I had casually observed fungi before 鈥� on lawns, stuck on neighbourhood trees and in neat fairy rings in parks. But it was the first time I consciously went looking.

Climate-wise, Victoria is considered part of the temperate zone. But during this past year or two, civility-wise we鈥檝e verged into the intemperate zone.

Today, misinformation is more easily 颅available than actual information, and 颅possibly more influential in terms of some people鈥檚 thinking.