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You may have noticed on email signatures, name tags and Twitter handles people are adding their pronouns. Even on many Zoom calls people add their pronouns next to their displayed name. Common pronouns used are 鈥渟he/her,鈥� 鈥渉e/him鈥� or 鈥渢hey/them.

Children who have to visit the Child and Family Ambulatory Unit at Victoria 颅General Hospital for bloodwork and other lab procedures will now find the experience less stressful thanks to a $150,000 renovation of the laboratory area funded by the Vict

There is a common Indigenous teaching that says 鈥渞emember where you come from.鈥� We all have a starting place and since birth we have taken many small strides to get us where we are today.

The question has been raised, if hospital intensive care units on the Island become swamped with COVID-19 patients (as they already are in Northern B.C.

The Greater Victoria Placemaking Network has launched the Little Free Library Truth and Reconciliation Book Project, a fundraising campaign to purchase children鈥檚 and young adult books about truth and reconciliation from local and Indigenous authors.

And so it begins. A falling tree hits a power line in North Saanich, knocking out power to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal. B.C. Ferries is unable to lift its loading ramps. 颅Several sailings are cancelled.

In a recent column that was partly about the increasingly popular anti-science 颅movement, I quoted controversial right-wing philosopher and writer Ayn Rand as 颅saying: 鈥淩eason is the only means of acquiring knowledge.

In September, as the season鈥檚 first big storm swept through, the B.C. Ministry of 颅Transportation closed Highway 1 between Lytton and Spences Bridge.

Last week, I mentioned the United Nations鈥� call for a 鈥減eace plan鈥� and a 鈥減ost-war rebuilding program鈥� as central to our need to make peace with nature.

Now that the rains have started, the grass has started growing again. 鈥淚 feel like I need a helmet and flak jacket out here,鈥� Nature Boy said recently as he wheeled the lawnmower out of storage.