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I’ve had some wonderful moments out on the quiet of the reef with green sea turtles. (If you’ve never done so, it’s really something you must seek out, even just once. I can recommend some spots.) Because they were abundant where I was, and knowing they’re found all over the planet , throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of every ocean, I never appreciated how threatened they were as a species ( Chelonia mydas ). Accidental catches (mostly fisheries bycatch and aba

The Vancouver Sun just published " Crime destroying B.C. downtowns, municipal leaders warn ." Many other news outlets offered similar reporting. Just a couple weeks ago it was " ' When a street dies, a city dies': B.C. businesses say disorder, crime jeopardizing their survival ." The trouble here is, well, that none of this is happening. We actually have good data on criminal code violations and crime severity in British Columbia (and around the country). And if you go lookin

Comedian Dusty Slay ("Okay. We're havin' a good time.") tells a story about attempting to join the army. The whole thing is a much longer story about how he reasoned that there was no chance America would be involved in a major conflict before he could get some training and life skills, do some travelling, put in time as a cook, and to save some money to pay for culinary school and maybe build a restaurant when he gets out -- and that he should have been sent to basic trainin

Because it needs reiterating: nearly a millennia after the first known European settlement in present-day Canada, well over two centuries...

Like so many places, until recently there were trolleys and trains zooming people all over Victoria and beyond. From 1888 to 1923, a foot...

GUY: So, you won the lottery and want to bring power to the world (or just your own city.) You read Our World in Data and find their...

My current favourite conservative meme is a video showing Joe Rogan proposing to his guest, "You have people like Bill Gates saying that ‘planting trees to deal with carbon is ridiculous, that’s a ridiculous way to do it…’ How is that ridiculous? They literally turn CO₂ into oxygen. It is their food." There’s so much to love about this, but we can just stick with the planting of trees and carbon offsetting and don’t need to get into the politics around Bill Gates or how ‘20s

As the independent senator from Vermont goes on a tour of America, we've nearly reached full reversal. The same media who engaged in...

I’ve been writing about this province's epidemic of overdose deaths and related themes for a while now. Just in recent times I’ve...

A 2021 study out of Denmark estimated the proportion of cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use in that country doubled in...

So what is this fluoride panic about? It’s certainly not about the existing evidence.

EVERY EXPERT:  Putin just has nothing to gain from launching a war with Ukraine. He would never do it. ME:  I don’t know about that. ALL...

I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...

In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting   started with...

Narendra :  They’re not trying to hide anything from you, though. Adrenalina :  Aren’t they? Narendra :  They would if they could. For...

I don’t know how I got here. Somehow I developed this crazy belief that firefighters fought fires. Crazy, right? My bad.  Per capita, Vancouver is one of the country’s busiest fire departments, and getting busier all the time. But almost none of that fire service activity involves firefighters marching into buildings, masks on and hoses over their shoulders, to beat back flames. As a matter of fact, if you eliminated calls for service that weren’t for fires or false alarms (w

Last September the CMHC came out with a study suggesting that for Canada to reach housing affordability last seen 20 years ago “an...

If you’re the chief coroner, hold an executive position in public health, or are the independent representative for children and youth or...