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Geoff Johnson: Aging brings new opportunities for learning

Geoff Johnson: Aging brings new opportunities for learning

Keeping the brain active and learning new, intellectually demanding skills can have significant benefits for older people
Special delivery: Helicopters and internet bring creature comforts to lighthouse keepers

Special delivery: Helicopters and internet bring creature comforts to lighthouse keepers

It takes time and planning, but keepers can get almost anything delivered to their remote locations
Monique Keiran: Changes to alcohol-guidelines should be based on science

Monique Keiran: Changes to alcohol-guidelines should be based on science

While more restrictive drinking guidelines would affect the bottom lines of Canadian wineries, breweries, distilleries and others, health must be the priority
Trevor Hancock: Private-sector interests can undermine public health efforts

Trevor Hancock: Private-sector interests can undermine public health efforts

Too often there is a major conflict between public health and large segments of the private sector because they have two very different motivations
Geoff Johnson: Poor behaviour at school board meetings stems from decline of deference

Geoff Johnson: Poor behaviour at school board meetings stems from decline of deference

In September, an Abbotsford school board meeting was forced to end early after hundreds of protesters showed up to oppose the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools
Our Community: WITS bursary, Arbutus Singers, literacy volunteers

Our Community: WITS bursary, Arbutus Singers, literacy volunteers

There is a new bursary for students identifying as LGBTQ in the Greater Victoria School District
The year in pictures: 2023 through the eyes of Times Colonist photographers

The year in pictures: 2023 through the eyes of Times Colonist photographers

Times Colonist photographers Adrian Lam and Darren Stone know our Island as well as anyone. They are out on the streets, fields and alleys of the capital region year-round, day and night, in all weather. See the images they’ve chosen to represent 2023
Our Community: Volunteers connect with seniors; Langford trolley stuffed for Christmas

Our Community: Volunteers connect with seniors; Langford trolley stuffed for Christmas

RCMP program checks in on seniors who live independently in the West Shore, but don’t have friends or family nearby.
David Sovka: When it comes to New Year's, people are crazy — sorry, diverse and interesting

David Sovka: When it comes to New Year's, people are crazy — sorry, diverse and interesting

Everybody has their own unique way to welcome the new year/forget about the disastrous old one.
Charla Huber: Columnist puts down her pen, thanks Times Colonist readers

Charla Huber: Columnist puts down her pen, thanks Times Colonist readers

After nearly seven years as a columnist, Huber writes that connecting with readers helped her grow not just as a writer, but as a person.