“It’s December, the frost has crusted into my garden beds and transformed the mazes between wild berry bushes into a beautiful network of ice crystals in the dirt.” 🫐

A Jess Housty excerpt, featured in our new book of B.C. stories, “Points of Interest.”

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#ICYMI : Unless there is drastic change, Canadians ought to prepare for a Conservative majority at some point in the next year or so.

But it would create political headaches for the UCP, writes Jared Wesley. #canpoli #abpoli

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More than a facelift: Metropolis at Metrotown, the largest mall in British Columbia, is a “fortress in the landscape.” So how to penetrate the fortress?

Christopher Cheung ✍️ reports on the 30-year plan for B.C.’s largest mall and remaking a regional hub. 🛍

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The BC Conservatives fell. And are rising again.

Crawford Kilian takes a look at their policies ahead of this year’s provincial election — and finds history repeating itself.

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“They accused me of breaking into my place.” Victims of domestic violence are often dismissed and sometimes met with police brutality, advocates say.

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A first-of-its-kind sexual assault support centre will soon be offering free-of-charge services to survivors of sexualized violence in Vancouver.
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More than a facelift: Metropolis at Metrotown, the largest mall in British Columbia, is a “fortress in the landscape.” So how to penetrate the fortress?

Christopher Cheung ✍️ reports on the 30-year plan for B.C.’s largest mall and remaking a regional hub. 🛍

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“The walls are shaking. It sounds like the rest of the house has melted away, like my room is a ship in a storm. How can the wind be so loud? How can it rush through the walls like a sieve?”

An excerpt from our new book, “Points of Interest.”

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“Food, Inc. 2” left Dorothy Woodend hungry. The doc’s dark stroll through our world of processed food left her seeking more than a sprinkle of hope. And better non-fiction cinema. 🎥🍟

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Would you choose wood tiles over ceramic tiles? 🪵

Timber Tiles on Vancouver Island offers a climate-friendly alternative to an ancient craft that today relies on fossil fuels. Andrew Findlay reports.
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It’s radical to create a classroom built on belonging.

Inside an Indigenous writing class at the University of Victoria:
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#GenerationScrewed : The Canadian government unveiled its 2024 budget, with emphasis on “generational fairness” for millennials and gen Z.

Will it help? Douglas A. Stuart takes a closer look at the measures that are supposed to improve affordability.
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It’s radical to create a classroom built on belonging.

Inside an Indigenous writing class at the University of Victoria:
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An RCMP report predicts a stormy future in Canada. Why we should pay attention to six issues, especially as elections loom. Crawford Kilian writes.
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#GenerationScrewed : The Canadian government unveiled its 2024 budget, with emphasis on “generational fairness” for millennials and gen Z.

Will it help? Douglas A. Stuart takes a closer look at the measures that are supposed to improve affordability.
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Canada’s last three wild spotted owls, and their keepers. 🦉 An excerpt from Sarah Cox’s “Signs of Life.”
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A first-of-its-kind sexual assault support centre will soon be offering free-of-charge services to survivors of sexualized violence in Vancouver.

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The first major assessment of Kenney’s legacy, journalist Jeremy Appel - @jeremyappel.bsky.social’s “Kenneyism” charts the rise, fall and philosophy of the enigmatic conservative’s career.

The book ought to be on the shelf of any respectable political observer in this country.thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/0…

Bill Maher warned Canada is a dysfunctional society in an episode of his HBO program “Real Time.” Is it our woke forests, Bill? thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/0…

To hear Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner tell it this week, you’d almost think there’s been no inflation in Alberta since the pandemic.

David Climenhaga writes. #abpoli

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