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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…
After getting past the ideological trap of good versus bad cop, the next step is to ask two fundamental questions in terms of what the police are for. Whom do the police serve? What do they protect in a colonialist and capitalist social order?
This discussion of ownership, values, and digital property is great.
I always forget how to do this! Select some sample noise Select Effect > Noise Reduction Click on Get Noise Profile Select all of the…
A smartphone rendered obsolete by the advancement of technology; an ode to the modern-day dilemma we all invariably face.
For the last couple of years, we’ve been aggregating the dispatches from the people in our network. We do this so we can keep up…
There’s not enough discussion of class in Canadian politics. How can looking at Canadian fiction and Canada Reads help shed light on how class is working today?
Please note that the time codes referenced here are for the web version of the story and will differ slightly if you are listening to…
These videos by Dr. Stan Ruecker and Dr. Milena Radzikowska are an excellent resource.
The more Geoguessr I played, the more I notice how design permeates our world, and lets us know where we are in surprising ways.
Frances Moore Lappé’s ‘Diet For a Small Planet’ was first published in 1971, but to anyone steeped in the world of food – be it…
Beyond just looking at and identifying birds, I’ve come to enjoy learning about bird-related issues. On that note, here are two recent(ish) articles about local Victoria bird news.
Capital Daily Podcast has a great episode about the creative ways Victoria restaurants have pivoted to meet the current situation.
As a maker of digital (and occasionally tangible) things, I love watching makers who use big, solid materials like wood, metal, and in this case,…
Ooh, nerds. The best. Also, amazing interviewer. I wonder if she was ever a theatre or improve nerd.
Robyn Maynard and Desmond Cole share their thoughts in this compelling talk on issues surrounding abolitionism.
Each episode of Alie Ward’s Ologies podcast begins with the premise of a featured “-ology” (a branch of science), but by the end is so much more.