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Geoff Johnson: COVID denial and stupidity: Is education to blame?

Geoff Johnson: COVID denial and stupidity: Is education to blame?

Slow, dull, dim, brainless, boneheaded, choose your own euphemism for stupid, but the anti-vax, anti-mask, COVID-denial crowd has moved us past the time when we need to be tap dancing around the term 鈥渟tupid鈥 lest we offend.
Charla Huber: 91原创 FC鈥檚 orange scarves demonstrate a step forward

Charla Huber: 91原创 FC鈥檚 orange scarves demonstrate a step forward

I attended a 91原创 FC game for the first time since 2019 and the entire experience was nostalgic. It was incredible to finally attend a sporting event. I felt like I was a child again experiencing a taste of the good old days.
Trevor Hancock: Neither left nor right, but ahead 鈥 why the Greens are different

Trevor Hancock: Neither left nor right, but ahead 鈥 why the Greens are different

As anyone who has ever Googled my name could tell you, I was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada in the mid-1980s. That was in part because I had deep roots in green or ecological political thinking, 颅dating back a decade before that.
Lawrie McFarlane: U.S. brings instability with its 'Dumbkirk'

Lawrie McFarlane: U.S. brings instability with its 'Dumbkirk'

As the shambolic exit from Kabul unfolds, Joe Biden鈥檚 presidency hangs in the balance. Biden centred his 2020 campaign around the slogan 鈥淎merica is back.鈥 In the view of America鈥檚 allies, the U.S. is gone.
Monique Keiran: Toward better buildings amid the climate change challenge

Monique Keiran: Toward better buildings amid the climate change challenge

Cool evening breezes and refreshing 颅nighttime temperatures have Nature Boy checking the weather stripping around the doors and the seals on the windows. 鈥淔all is in the air,鈥 he says, 鈥渆ven if it鈥檚 just hinting at it.
Lawrie McFarlane: Apple's prying goes a step too far

Lawrie McFarlane: Apple's prying goes a step too far

If you have an iPhone or iPad, beware. Apple is in the final stages of giving itself the right 鈥 and the technology 鈥 to break into these devices and search your photo library. So far, the project is aimed at American users.
Geoff Johnson: Letter grades unhelpful in moving toward goals

Geoff Johnson: Letter grades unhelpful in moving toward goals

It would make life easy if anything we needed to know about our own situation could be adequately represented by a letter grade or even a number as we stumble daily though life.
Cross-border Salish Sea study finds some answers to why wild salmon are dying off

Cross-border Salish Sea study finds some answers to why wild salmon are dying off

For millennia, the Salish Sea 鈥 the shared body of water linking southern B.C. and northwestern Washington state, and encompassing the Puget Sound, Juan de Fuca Strait and the Strait of Georgia 鈥 was abundant with salmon.
Turns out this common 91原创 Island plant eats insects

Turns out this common 91原创 Island plant eats insects

It won鈥檛 bite.
Charla Huber: My experience as a child of the Sixties Scoop

Charla Huber: My experience as a child of the Sixties Scoop

Many readers know I was adopted at birth and adopted by a non-Indigenous family. Through this, I am someone who has walked in two worlds my entire life, not ever feeling like I fully belong in either.