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Opinion: How language can turn down the temperature of heated climate change discourse

Opinion: How language can turn down the temperature of heated climate change discourse

Language is adaptive, self-balancing and evolves with environmental change. Understanding this may be the key to improving the conversation around climate change.
Goodman and Jagger: Time to return to predictable rental rate increases

Goodman and Jagger: Time to return to predictable rental rate increases

The B.C. NDP government has strayed from the traditional formula for rent increases
LETTER: On the fires in Maui

LETTER: On the fires in Maui

As many have probably heard or read, Hawaii’s Big Island and Maui have been devastated by wildfires, and will need much time to recover.
BC wildfires: resident fears, evacuations and learning from indigenous communities

BC wildfires: resident fears, evacuations and learning from indigenous communities

2023 has been labelled Canada’s most destructive wildfire season ever, and summer isn’t over yet.
Jamie Stephen: Canada's greatest climate challenge and responsibility is our forests

Jamie Stephen: Canada's greatest climate challenge and responsibility is our forests

As the world gets hotter, the need for human intervention in forests goes up, not down, writes Jamie Stephen.
Suzanne Anton: We need to change the way decisions are made about our health

Suzanne Anton: We need to change the way decisions are made about our health

Too much power is invested in an unelected official, B.C.'s former attorney general argues
Rob Shaw: Sharma squires Swiss springboard to staff summer sojourns

Rob Shaw: Sharma squires Swiss springboard to staff summer sojourns

Attorney General and party of five take in Geneva UN conference, four of them then stayed for vacation
BEAR FLAT DISPATCH: packrats and confusing signs

BEAR FLAT DISPATCH: packrats and confusing signs

My favorite new sign is at the ends of the new bridges.
Poll reveals Canadians’ views on gender identity in classrooms and conversion therapy

Poll reveals Canadians’ views on gender identity in classrooms and conversion therapy

On some questions, ideology remains a key indicator
The business world is not immune to ‘ghosting,' new survey finds

The business world is not immune to ‘ghosting,' new survey finds

An abrupt end to communication after job interviews, work-related phone calls and requests for more information has left many Canadians feeling corporately ‘ghosted’
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