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Tick season comes earlier to the Okanagan than we think
At a recent art night with friends in early March, we were adjourning and preparing…
When you realize what abuse is, you see it everywhere
There are moments in my life where things change and there becomes a “before time”…
Adding Bluesky social icons to headers and footers
Many of our clients are moving to Bluesky and quitting Twitter/X. If they are in…
Maureen Vo chats about her winding career route and why she has become passionate about freediving
What led you to the field of marine biology? I’ve always been interested in nature…
Security is a process: new adopters of passcode keepers make us happy
A lost phone leads Jacqueline McAllister to new awareness about cybersecurity and we learn why…
Karissa Finnigan on emotional intelligence in university, sports, and launching a career
Karissa Finnigan has graduated from Concordia College with an interest in genetic counselling. She is…
Over the last 30 years, we have seen exponential growth of Indigenous media and Indigenous media makers, especially here in Canada which has one of…
Have you ever felt it difficult to express your climate anxiety in conversation with older relatives? You are likely not alone, as climate change is…
There are a number of WordPress plugins that will allow you to apply external link icons automatically, but that’s not really my preference. I like…
After ripping each other apart, and your tents, to stay together, when you finally let it drop when the holes and the boat you shared become bigger than your bravest bucket…
Sam Hester is a graphic recorder and comics creator in Calgary. This TED talk is a brilliant insight into the power of visual learning. Her…
The impact of disinformation and misinformation has become impossible to ignore. Whether it is denial about climate change, conspiracy theories about elections, or misinformation about vaccines, the…
Since 1993, people around the world have been marking March 22 as World Water Day (WWD), an opportunity for everyone to take a moment and…
Anti-vaccination groups, as well as other anti-science movements, are not new phenomena, nor are the nature of their objections. Unfortunately, because history is usually ignored when dealing with current scientific issues, people fail to acknowledge that most anti-science arguments have been around for centuries.
Results showed that gender, psychopathy, and sadism were all significant independent predictors of malevolent trolling. That is, if you are male, have high psychopathy, or high sadism, you are more likely to troll.
Caroline Fox’s ‘At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast’ welcomes readers into the world of BC’s bird-filled, rugged coastline. But, her message almost gets lost in a sea of jargon.
Sometimes things that look simple, just aren’t. It’s fascinating to me that there’s a team of putter togetherers. Learn more about Ernest Wright scissors.
Youtube | How To Be At Home Andrea Dorfman | provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Lands are being changed. People were born on these lands. They live there and have families and ancestors there. These places are being destroyed. And…
Every once in a while I want to put pages into an RSS feed on a self-hosted WordPress site. When I do this, I prefer…
On World Water Day 2022, our Microplastics Okanagan team and project partners published a press release about the Microplastics In Okanagan Lake project. We were blown away by the community response!
Several community partners and Okanagan College students have teamed up to determine if there are microplastics in Okanagan Lake and Kelowna’s municipal wastewater.