Opinion

The understanding that nature benefits our mental and physical health seems obvious. However, the outdoors is now being touted as a new therapy called “ ecotherapy ” – or restorative contact with nature.

Another day, another dollar, another report on climate change and how it’s about to really ruin our day. This latest report, however, approaches the issue from a slightly different angle.

It’s said their only friends are the mountains. And for a people without their own country, their destiny has been to live among others, often unwelcome or even shunned, always obsessed about some day having a country of their own.

Secondary-school teachers are surprised and frustrated by a collection of decisions made about how to address year-end grades for students in the secondary program — grades 10, 11 and 12.

If there were a catastrophic earthquake this week, is B.C. prepared for it? The question was put point-blank to the director of Emergency Management B.C. on Wednesday during a committee meeting, and the answer was: “No, we are not.

One of the thorniest issues raised in the joint review panel’s report on B.C. Hydro’s Site C dam proposal is that of the B.C. government’s hypocritical policy on the burning of natural gas for electricity.

If you want to know what the love and support for children with cancer in Victoria looks like, take a look at the people set to line the Pat Bay highway Friday afternoon.

This is the time of year when students graduate, families celebrate and schools breathe a sigh of relief that they have successfully supported hundreds — even thousands — of people navigating the challenges of post-secondary education.

People who are familiar with the sex industry in Canada are profoundly disappointed in the introduction of Bill C-36 this month.

Every year, about 1,000 local politicians gather at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention and pass dozens of resolutions demanding or urging that the provincial government do something about something. Flood management. Derelict vessels.