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Letters Sept. 6: Pot smokers should clean up after themselves; missing-middle initiative controversy

Letters Sept. 6: Pot smokers should clean up after themselves; missing-middle initiative controversy

Opinion: Canada's low-risk alcohol use guidelines have been slashed to 6 drinks per week. Here's why

Opinion: Canada's low-risk alcohol use guidelines have been slashed to 6 drinks per week. Here's why

What has changed in the last decade since the 2011 guidelines?
Comment: Think of teachers as another school year starts

Comment: Think of teachers as another school year starts

This is not a normal time for schools, and this year they don鈥檛 feel like the normal back-to-school jitters. It has been a tough few years.
Comment: Facing up to crisis: Inaction on global warming is a form of Russian roulette

Comment: Facing up to crisis: Inaction on global warming is a form of Russian roulette

To hold warming to 2 C, we need to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. But this is an exceedingly tall order given that we are currently going in the wrong direction.
Letters Sept. 5: Amalgamation, ageism, health and gratitude

Letters Sept. 5: Amalgamation, ageism, health and gratitude

Letters from our readers. Today: 鈥淪tuck鈥 on a cruise ship, B.C.鈥檚 family doctor shortage, and the value of hydrogen.
Comment: We failed to invest in the medical system, and now we pay

Comment: We failed to invest in the medical system, and now we pay

No one called doctors in 2011 lazy, and they only had two-thirds the workload of a doctor in 2021. If universal health care is to be achieved, the system needs more bodies to handle the extra work.
Comment: Remembering Chinese-91原创 students' year-long boycott of Victoria schools

Comment: Remembering Chinese-91原创 students' year-long boycott of Victoria schools

The boycott, which lasted a year, was a protest against plans to expand segregation of Chinese 91原创 students in the public school system.
Monique Keiran: 'Worthy' books didn't make summer reading cut, but fall is coming

Monique Keiran: 'Worthy' books didn't make summer reading cut, but fall is coming

This season has been the summer of the mystery, which travel well to the backyard, the beach, the picnic table and the sofa and don鈥檛 come with the built-in serving of guilt or sense of shameless frivolity attached to some other genres.
Charla Huber: Ask a kid to pretend their hand is a phone — you might be surprised

Charla Huber: Ask a kid to pretend their hand is a phone — you might be surprised

Why do adults get upset that kids no longer use a fist with an extended pinky and thumb to indicate talking on a phone?
Geoff Johnson: 'Quiet quitting' and the post-COVID world of work

Geoff Johnson: 'Quiet quitting' and the post-COVID world of work

The goal of 鈥榪uiet quitting鈥 鈥 doing exactly what the job requires, no more and no less 鈥 is to draw clearer boundaries between work and life in a society that fetishizes endless hustle.