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Monique Keiran: Blackberries and BlackBerries are in season

Monique Keiran: Blackberries and BlackBerries are in season

Blackberry picking, like developing BlackBerry devices, is a prickly business.
Yom Kippur can move us one step closer to the angels

Yom Kippur can move us one step closer to the angels

On Saturday, many Jewish people around the world will fast for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. This is an excellent way to increase awareness of those who fast not by choice, but by necessity.
Shannon Corregan: Joining the smartphone generation

Shannon Corregan: Joining the smartphone generation

I recently purchased my entry visa to our current decade by investing in a smartphone, and I’m having mixed feelings about it. Not the phone, necessarily, but what the phone means. Before I was a proud owner, I was a bit of a smartphone neophyte.
Geoff Johnson: China makes progress, while B.C. lags

Geoff Johnson: China makes progress, while B.C. lags

In August, the Chinese Ministry of Education released 10 Regulations to Lessen Academic Burden for Primary School Students Grades 1-3.
Comment: A new era begins for the Experimental Lakes

Comment: A new era begins for the Experimental Lakes

One of the best-kept secrets in Canada’s long tradition of scientific research is the Ontario-based Experimental Lakes Area.
William Watson: Telecom issue rife with patriotism, emotion

William Watson: Telecom issue rife with patriotism, emotion

Patriotism, English essayist Samuel Johnson wrote, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Johnson clearly never met a Canadian interest group. Patriotism is always their first refuge.
Les Leyne: Greens’ disclosure is a bit spiced up

Les Leyne: Greens’ disclosure is a bit spiced up

You have to wonder where the Green party’s interpretation of a major federal research project on the north coast leaves the B.C. Liberals.
Comment: It’s a bee problem, not a bee catastrophe

Comment: It’s a bee problem, not a bee catastrophe

Contrary to what you might have heard, there is no “bee-pocalypse.” There is lots of alarmist talk about colony-collapse disorder. People are blaming pesticides and talking about hundreds of billions of dollars at risk.
Andrew Cohen: Quebec values debate reveals federal silence

Andrew Cohen: Quebec values debate reveals federal silence

It may be that the charter of Quebec values never becomes law. It may be that this is a trial balloon, a little late-summer silliness, a taunt, tease or test, with no purpose but provocation.
Les Leyne: Waiting for Dix to ‘do the right thing’

Les Leyne: Waiting for Dix to ‘do the right thing’

I was so busy spending money in the commercial tents at the Saanich Fair that it took a while to notice something significant. I’m a sucker for all the marmalades, preserves, chutneys and spice mixes on offer.
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