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Air pollution kills millions per year

Air pollution kills millions per year

To live, we need the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. But of the three - air, food and water - air is the one we need on a continual basis.
Oversight needed for children in care system

Oversight needed for children in care system

Not long before the end of his young life, Alex Gervais was placed in the Abbotsford hotel where he would live out his remaining days before throwing himself to his death out of a fourth-floor window.
Mind your manners

Mind your manners

What has happened to good manners? What has happened to holding the door for a stranger or even a friend? Worse still, why do we flip someone the bird when they are not driving to our perfection? What has happened to being polite, courteous and consi
PTSD sufferers deserve support

PTSD sufferers deserve support

It used to be called shell shock. Finally, in 1980, after dealing with tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans, the medical community properly named it: post-traumatic stress disorder.
Learning all about trusts

Learning all about trusts

On his deathbed, Bertrand's eyes beckoned as he supplicated his "old buddy, old pal" to relent and accept the impossible task. "If you have a better idea, what is it? Please, just take it, and do as I ask.
So much to say about Baljit Sethi

So much to say about Baljit Sethi

Baljit Sethi has been in Canada for nearly 45 years. She was awarded the Order of British Columbia by Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point on Oct. 3, 2011, at Government House in Victoria. The Order of B.C.
Seeing beyond the lies of racism

Seeing beyond the lies of racism

In the months before the start of the Second World War, more than 900 Jews boarded the SS St. Louis in Hamburg harbour in hopes of escaping the racism of Nazi Germany.
Guest conductor Hall takes the helm this weekend

Guest conductor Hall takes the helm this weekend

This weekend's PGSO concert is being billed as Love Awaits You.
'Tis the season to crave fresh greens

'Tis the season to crave fresh greens

The market, a murmuring of vendors and customers conversing in joy with the extra vitamin D flowing through their veins due to the lengthening daily appearance of that beautiful bright orb in the sky we call the sun.
Movie night memories

Movie night memories

When I was growing up, the best thing that we could do as a family was family movie night. Back when I was really young, family movie night was fairly complicated.For one, we only had twelve channels.