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GINTA: Killing wild animals is never the long-term solution
DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST couple of months into the pandemic when social media was inundated with images of wild critters strolling through cities and other areas usually frequented by humans that were suddenly empty due to people staying home? Photoshop tricks notwithstanding, we were indeed witnessing a different lev...
Mar 22, 2021
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GINTA: Collective thoughtfulness ensures our community well-being when most needed
A CURIOUS THING HAPPENS every time a long weekend or school break comes about: the fleet of neighbourhood cars changes. Some of the usual vehicles are gone, and there are new ones, including a few from other provinces. The latter is not unlike what's happening on the city streets too. I get it, people long to travel, a...
Mar 16, 2021
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GINTA: Celebrating women need not be controversial; it is a beautiful and needed thing
One of the good things about an overcast morning is that, should you decide to take the dog to the beach, you'll have the place to yourselves for the most part. Though we're in a pandemic and many of us miss hanging out with friends and family the way we used to, solitude is good for us when we need to get away from al...
Mar 08, 2021
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GINTA: On the Norkam dress code, will casting stones solve the issue?
WHEN I STUMBLED UPON the news of a NorKam student being removed from class because of what her teacher perceived to be inappropriate attire, I did what every other person did when reading the said news story. I looked at the photo and shrugged. There was nothing inappropriate about the student's clothing. Different, ye...
Mar 01, 2021
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GINTA: Teachers deserve to be listened to for the sake of us all
You may have peeked at the news of the new variants appearing in some schools in the Lower Mainland. As I started writing, two more schools have been added to the exposure list for the U.K. variant, bringing the total number to five. We are told there are ways to reduce the risk and generally improve our state of healt...
Feb 22, 2021
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GINTA: We have nothing if we don't have transparency
I WAS ABOUT TO TELL YOU about this awe-inspiring documentary called 'Wild Canadian Weather' you can find on CBC. It's a perfect reminder of beauty and wonder and why we need to care for nature. My youngest used to watch the Planet Earth series when he was in early elementary school, and he would talk about it for hours...
Feb 16, 2021
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GINTA: Aging should not mean that we become disposable
SOME OF MY DEAREST early childhood memories have to do with my maternal grandparents who lived in a separate suite in the home I grew up in. My grandmother passed away when I was six and my grandfather three years later. I missed them terribly since. There were other multigenerational families living in the neighbourho...
Feb 08, 2021
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GINTA: With cases growing, we need to change our strategy
IF YOU HAVE KIDS, you've likely been through a case or two of ,'are we there yet?' and like all parents who are presented with the question, you probably answered, 'almost there,' knowing that it'll be a while yet. Somehow it feels that way with the ongoing pandemic. Last week alone, we saw multiple cases show up in ou...
Feb 01, 2021
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GINTA: Please slow down; it's the least we can all do for safety
YOU'D THINK WE'VE HEARD IT ENOUGH to not see it happen again. Speeding in school zones, that is. Going over 30km/h in a school zone can have awful consequences. Like I said in a previous column on the same topic, while the most awful are of course the deadly crashes, they are all horrendous. Living near two schools, I ...
Jan 25, 2021
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GINTA: The last thing we want to deal with in a pandemic is selfishness
IF THIS FEELS LIKE déjà vu... well, it is. Part of it anyway. The part about people choosing to gather in large numbers in the streets to protest, yet again, masks and other COVID restrictions. Never mind that the health authority has restricted public gatherings and never mind that we're still very much ...
Jan 18, 2021
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