I MUST ADMIT, initially I thought the news was a joke. The story of three ‘angry’ otters (quotation marks not mine) that attacked a golden retriever in Victoria, [Continue]
THE FIRST TIME I read about the boycott of B.C. wines, the thought that came to mind was that no one will think it a good idea. A restaurant owner in Fort McMurray had [Continue]
FEW THINGS are more unsettling than the words ‘coloured discharge’ or ‘sludgy brown cloud’ when attached to the state of a natural body of water, such as a river or a [Continue]
WE LIVE CLOSE to one of the public high schools, which means that on any given day during lunch break, there is a stream of teens walking in front of our house, many of them [Continue]
WHEN I WAS 12 or so, I became aware that some elderly people around me, relatives or not, had been married or were forced by various life circumstances to become an [Continue]
TO SAY THAT WINTER cannot make up its mind this year would be an understatement. It’s been a weather seesaw of sorts since it first snowed in early November. Cold, snowy, [Continue]