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May 31, 2020 in Local Voices // McQUARRIE – Mass murder in the name of personal freedom
May 31, 2020 in Knox // KNOX – ‘Kooky’ or Kryptonite? Greens split on the future
May 30, 2020 in Local Voices // PETERS – Is this what American exceptionalism looks like?
May 30, 2020 in Armchair Mayor // ROTHENBURGER – Imagine how different it would be if we’d taken care of our seniors
May 29, 2020 in Charbonneau // CHARBONNEAU – Stop misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine now

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COVID-19 – The importance of social connection in a time of isolation

May 28, 2020 // 1 Comment

Social isolation has become a defining feature of modern Western societies and there’s a growing concern about its effects By GERAINT OSBORNE Professor, University of [Continue]

POLITICS – Why leaders who bullshit are more dangerous than those who lie

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

By HAMID FOUROUGHI University of Portsmouth MARIANNA FOTAKI University of Warwick YIANNIS GABRIEL University of Bath BULLSHIT SEEMS TO BE the new currency in politics. Around [Continue]

SUZUKI – Do ‘murder hornets’ really pose a serious buzzkill?

May 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

AS IF WE DIDN’T have enough to contend with, now we’re facing a “murder hornet” invasion — but it’s more an invasion of newsfeeds than an actual descending [Continue]

HENRY – Why we don’t just ‘test, test, test everyone’ for signs of COVID-19

May 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

By Dr. BONNIE HENRY B.C. Provincial Health Officer TESTING FOR COVID-19 and other infectious diseases is a core tenet of public health.It tells us the what, who and where of [Continue]

COVID-19 – What cities can learn about planning for life after the pandemic

May 9, 2020 // 2 Comments

By JILL GRANT Dalhousie University FOR DECADES, epidemiologists have warned of the risks of new pandemics in our world of stressed natural environments, densely populated [Continue]

SUZUKI – Earth Day offers a chance to re-evaluate out path

April 22, 2020 // 1 Comment

EARTH DAY was born on April 22, 1970 — 50 years ago. Since then, the human population has more than doubled, from 3.7 billion to almost eight billion. Our drive toward [Continue]

HENRY – Wearing a non-medical cloth mask is a personal choice

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

By Dr. BONNIE HENRY B.C. Provincial Health Officer FROM THE ONSET of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have regularly seen people choose to wear a variety of masks, from medical [Continue]

POLITICS – Bernie drops out as Democrats pick pragmatism over consistency

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ADAM HODGES University of Colorado Boulder IN MANY WAYS, Bernie Sanders is the anti-Trump. And, in important ways, he ran his campaign as the anti-Biden. Sanders bowed out [Continue]

SUZUKI – Review shows ocean life could rebound within 30 years

April 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

WITH EVERYTHING humanity is going through, it’s comforting to come across good news. The best is that people are co-operating to an unprecedented extent, coming together [Continue]

HENRY – An explanation of why COVID19 communities are not named

April 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

By Dr. BONNIE HENRY B.C. Provincial Health Officer WHEN AN OUTBREAK hits a community, one of the most urgent things people want is information. This is human nature, as [Continue]

MORGAN – Canada’s hospital system is ill-prepared for COVID-19 crisis

April 3, 2020 // 5 Comments

THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT’S plan to use Canada’s “fiscal firepower” to help Canadian families and businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic has been appropriately [Continue]

SUZUKI – Let’s come together in these physically distancing times

April 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

THESE ARE DIFFICULT TIMES, especially for people who lack safe shelter, food and other necessities — and for those on the front lines. Even though we must maintain physical [Continue]

TRAVIS – ‘Hundreds of hospital beds’ could disappear in an instant

March 24, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE WARNING SIGNS were there, but by Feb. 27, those signs were a little too frequent and it became apparent that it was time to suck it up and head to a hospital, never my [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘At this unique time, partisanship has left the building’

March 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Statement by Premier John Horgan in Legislature on Monday, March 23, 2020: Hon. J. Horgan: I thank my colleagues for joining us here in what could only be described as an [Continue]