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August 6, 2020 in Editorials // ROTHENBURGER – B.C. needs to go back to the drawing boards on return-to-school plan
August 5, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – We need to stop stigmatizing North Shore in crime reports
August 5, 2020 in Featured Comment // FEATURED COMMENT – Note to City council: Brocklehurst Lives Matter
August 5, 2020 in Bepple // BEPPLE – New name for B.C. Day would be another step toward reconciliation
August 4, 2020 in Other Voices // SUZUKI – Four-day workweek can spur necessary transformation

Other Voices

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]

SUZUKI – If corporations have legal rights, why not rivers?

March 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

A POPULAR SIGN at climate marches reads, “System Change, Not Climate Change.” What does system change look like? Environmental crises such as climate disruption and [Continue]

SUZUKI – The woman who discovered global warming – in 1856

March 4, 2020 // 1 Comment

OUR BOOK Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do features a chapter on climate science history. We include discoveries by well-known scientific pioneers, from [Continue]

THE ROYALS – Want to help Harry and Meghan? Leave them alone

March 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

The principal issue is that Harry and his wife are not interested in, nor apparently have the resilience for, performing public duties PERSONAL AUTONOMY and the exercise of [Continue]

PIPELINE POLITICS – Wet’suwet’en protests throw us all into chaos

February 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

While the project is a win for the province, the country, the environment and B.C.’s First Nations, these hereditary chiefs don’t see it that way By BRIAN GIESBRECHT [Continue]