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SUZUKI – Let’s take back the planet and leave fossil fuels in the ground!

January 31, 2024 // 3 Comments

IT’S NOT A STRETCH to say the fossil fuel industry rules the world. From its beginnings, it’s spawned car and consumer culture, plastic proliferation and poisonous [Continue]

WEATHER – Ice storms, January downpours, heavy snow, no snow: ‘warming winter syndrome’

January 29, 2024 // 1 Comment

By RICHARD B. (Ricky) ROOD University of Michigan ONE OF THE MOST robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The [Continue]

HISTORY – Sir John A.: the enduring legacy of a great Canadian hero

January 16, 2024 // 0 Comments

His policies towards Indigenous populations earned him their praise but criticism of being too lenient from the Liberal opposition By GERRY BOWLER Frontier Centre for Public [Continue]

KYLLO – Use of cellphones should be banned in B.C. classrooms

January 12, 2024 // 5 Comments

By GREG KYLLO MLA, Shuswap AS STUDENTS ACROSS THE PROVINCE settle back into the school routine following the winter break, parents want to ensure their kids are walking into [Continue]

SUZUKI – Scientifically illiterate decision-makers endanger us all

January 10, 2024 // 2 Comments

CONSIDERING all the information on the internet, you’d think people would be better informed and able to assess the forces that affect our lives. That’s clearly [Continue]

GAZA – There is only one way to avoid civilian casualties in war: don’t start one

January 5, 2024 // 3 Comments

By DAVID BERCUSON University of Calgary UNION MAJOR GENERAL William T. Sherman, commanding officer of Union troops in the vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia, in early September [Continue]