Opinion

Ganga Jolicoeur Integrating midwives more fully into the health-care system can help relieve pressure on rural physicians, improve health outcomes and save health-care dollars.

I have always admired faithful adherents of every religious tradition. Buddhists monks, Catholic nuns, Muslim Imams, and Humanist chaplains just to name a few of those I have held in high esteem.

If you’re in North America, you likely use Google as your gateway to the Internet, typing in search words to zero in on what you’re after. But using Google exclusively can give you a truncated view of the Internet.

Frenemies John Horgan and Bill Bennett have elevated the contentious, semi-friendly bickering argument that will likely last the rest of their lives.

Some years ago, I was privileged to be part of a design team that had taken on the development of a new secondary school — a school for the 21st century, or so we hoped.

While the UN Food and Agriculture Organization is urgently encouraging countries throughout the world to protect their agricultural lands, the B.C. Liberal government’s Bill 24 would reduce ours.

I have thought recently about the formative lessons of my years in “higher” education.

Back in the day, and we are talking about the free-wheeling 1960s here, Australia was still, politically and culturally speaking, a very conservative country.

It’s getting closer to the season when we will see less rain and more sunshine, a most welcome development — until things start to dry up. The moss in the forest is thick and soft now; in a few weeks, it will be crunchy.

Our house is a bit like Downton Abbey. There is an upstairs and a downstairs.