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B.C. Launches Class-Action Lawsuit Against Makers of ‘Forever Chemicals’
The BC government has filed a class action law suit in the BC Supreme Court against a number of chemical companies which manufacture so called 'forever chemicals’ or PFAS which commonly occur in household products and do not break down in the environment. The US...
We Are Deeply Connected to and Kin With All of Life
In a very real sense, we are indeed separated from nature. In North America we are 80 per cent urbanized and we spend 90 per cent of our time indoors — and a further five per cent in cars and other vehicles. So we — and especially our children — have very little contact with nature, and most of that is…
CRD’s Biosolids Plan Beset With Issues
The report by Sidney Coles of Capital Daily exposes the problems with disposing biosolids at the Lafarge cement plat at Richmond and at Cassidy Quarry at Cassidy. The CRD Board will approve the long term pan for biosolids management on Wednesday June 12. Creatively...
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If doctors operate as a business, what’s wrong with surgery through private clinics?
There is much wringing of hands these days about the state of the Canadian health care system, as well there should be. But in fact, there is no such thing as a Canadian health-care system, although there is a Canadian way of funding health services. In the 1990s, when I helped organize study tours for Swedish health-system managers to visit Canada…
People Power in Action Results in Good News
FortisBC and Woodfibre LNG are beginning construction of a pipeline without the proper permits to house their workers safely. The process is an indication of their poor commitment to ensuring the safety of the community and the human rights of Squamish residents....
Black History Month
February is #blackhistorymonth : What I’m learning to do as a non-Black mixed POC. This post was inspired by Mikhaela Connell’s article for Greenpeace. Ella here (CU’s social media coordinator) As a non-Black mixed Euro-Canadian and Korean POC, I definitely want to...
Call for Nominations Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Laureate
Applications Are Now Open Looking to share your love of poetry with Victoria? The City of Victoria is seeking nominations for the next Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Laureate. These two-year positions will run from April 2023 to April 2025. Nominees must reside within...
Morgan’s columns should come with a health warning
Fossil-fuel advocate Gwyn Morgan recently provided yet another nonsensical defence of his industry (“Net-zero fantasy has empowered dictators,” Jan. 11). But as Prof. Roland Clift — a past member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.K. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution — wrote in response…
We must tax the rich, for the benefit of all
My recent columns on the need to reduce inequality and social injustice by, among other things, increasing taxes on the rich and introducing or expanding wealth taxes, have elicited responses from some people along the lines of “you advocate stealing from the rich.”
The Bateman Foundation is Moving
Hello Bateman Foundation Friends, We have exciting news we want to share with you. The Bateman Gallery is moving! We are investing in a new space to fully integrate art, nature, and education, creating a new cultural centre accessible to all. This means we will end...
Applications welcome: MEd in Leadership Studies at UVic
The Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies is pleased to welcome applications for our 2023 MEd program in Leadership Studies! Applications are open now until 11:59 p.m. on February 15, 2023. Please see below for more information on the program, or...
Happy Lunar New Year!!!
Happy Lunar New Year 恭喜發財 새해 복 많이 받으세요 Ella here If you don’t know me, I’m the social media coordinator for CU Lunar new year is close to my heart as I celebrate Seollal with my Korean family, and Chinese New Year with my step family This lunar new year is this...
United for Old Growth Super Rally Feb. 25 – Info & Sharing Material
An ancient forest is a home to more life than we can imagine. The project of colonization has left less than 3% of what once stood. On February 25 a united movement of thousands of people will be sending a clear message to the provincial government: Keep your promises...
Coming generations need the UN to focus on their future
Courtesy of the Times Colonist Photo: Students at a rally in California in February 2021 call for in-person learning. Young people who wrote a recent report for the UN called Our Future Agenda aim to "unleash a new generation" by engaging young people as designers...
Call for Artists – International Women’s Day
In recognition of International Women's Day, the Victoria Arts Council is seeking proposals from local and regional artists who are interested in participating in a thematic group exhibition throughout March 2023 in our main gallery. The 2023 theme for International...
