GINTA – Food studies versus reality and common sense
YOU CAN SAFELY FILE IT under ‘Another day, another food study.’ Followed by… now what? Case in point: the recent meat-centered study coming from Dalhousie and McMaster [Continue]
Articles by danielaginta
GINTA – We can save ourselves from being buried in our own waste
LOGICALLY SPEAKING, our waste-related problems would be much smaller if consumption would decrease to begin with. When less product is consumed, less waste is produced. [Continue]
GINTA – There is room for improvement in road safety
IT MAKES ME THINK of a game of peek-a-boo every time I see it. A police officer with a radar gun hides behind a tree or an object big enough to hide his or her presence. If [Continue]
GINTA – We have it so good here
THERE’S NO OTHER way to put it. Being away from Kamloops for a few days makes it ring true, yet again. It happens mostly when I am stuck in slow traffic as I approach [Continue]
GINTA – Good food grows close to home
HAVE YOU READ THE ONE about the fake honey? There is lots of it in Canada, almost 23 percent of the tested samples proved to be sticky mix of corn syrup and sugar derived [Continue]
GINTA – Kamloops must do better at accessibility for visually impaired
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE DOING on the morning of May 16 at 7:45 or so? Todd Harding does. He was walking downtown to his work with his guide dog, Luke. The pair stopped [Continue]
GINTA – If we mean all that we say today….
THE AIR SMELLS SWEET and sticky; it smells of soapberries, though they are mere green blobs right now, so all I smell is a promise; I like it, it has a tinge of humbleness to [Continue]
GINTA – Yes, we can do without (most) single-use plastics
I CANNOT TELL YOU how many times I wished that Styrofoam food containers would disappear. Call it a pet peeve but it goes beyond that. They leach harmful (albeit slow-acting [Continue]
GINTA – Sometimes we need a break from it all
NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I see it, I never get tired of it: The emerald sheen of the surrounding hills this time of the year, the play of cloud shadows and sunshine which [Continue]
GINTA – Stories of heartbreak: why domestic violence is an urgent issue
TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, Elana Fric and Mohammed Shamji were a couple in love, married for over a decade, children and all, each with a great career. But the truth of their [Continue]
GINTA – Just give and the rest will take care of itself
A YEAR AGO, a horrible bus crash claimed 16 lives and left 13 others with lifelong injuries and trauma; their loved ones and so many people across the country still carry the [Continue]
GINTA – For the love of trees – imagine if we didn’t have them
DID YOU KNOW that March 21 is the International Day of Forests? It was established back in 2012 by the United Nations General Assembly. Not many people know that because it [Continue]
GINTA – Is this the kind of world we want to live in?
HERE’S THE THING: I never envisioned that students and teachers at a Kamloops school could be the target of a deadly plot. When the explanatory email came from the [Continue]
GINTA – Let’s include financial literacy in our children’s education
HERE’S SOME SOBERING NEWS from a recent article inThe Globe and Mail: 46 percent of Canadians are within $200 from financial insolvency at each month-end. Blame it on [Continue]
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