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Geoff Johnson: Surfing offers lessons for dealing with AI in education

Geoff Johnson: Surfing offers lessons for dealing with AI in education

School boards need to ride the AI wave, but in a way that protects teachers and students from the perils while not limiting its educational potential
Opinion: Naturopathic doctors ready to relieve health-care crisis

Opinion: Naturopathic doctors ready to relieve health-care crisis

The time has come for naturopathic medicine to be fully embraced... during the current severe shortage of family doctors in this province and in particular northern BC.
Healthy Living: Passive problems, assertive answers

Healthy Living: Passive problems, assertive answers

Aggressive, knee-jerk, reactionary behaviour to challenges and interactions has the same catastrophic and injurious result by taking an opposite path to destructive results
Opinion: Online retailers ignore country of origin labeling

Opinion: Online retailers ignore country of origin labeling

Canada introduced country of origin mandatory labeling back in the 1890s to help consumers support Canadian manufacturers and industry. Online marketplaces have pulled a runaround on this tradition.
Climate Crossroads: Shopping is killing us

Climate Crossroads: Shopping is killing us

"Who doesn’t like a new dress or new car or new toy? But why can we not be satisfied with what we have?" ~ Cynthia Barnes, qathet Climate Alliance
Editorial: Government must get ruthless with toxic drug traffickers

Editorial: Government must get ruthless with toxic drug traffickers

What is the difference between the sodium nitrite Kenneth Law is accused of selling and people trafficking enough fentanyl to kill dozens or hundreds of people?
Peek at the Patricia: The Holdovers 'does something special'

Peek at the Patricia: The Holdovers 'does something special'

Funny movie is about people who are easy to root for, says qathet Film Society executive director Gary Shilling
Let’s Talk Trash: Plastic packaging bans an early gift

Let’s Talk Trash: Plastic packaging bans an early gift

Single-use plastic shopping bags and a host of other disposable plastic items will be banned across the country as of next week
Geoff Johnson: Media literacy programs on rise to help young people tell fact from fiction

Geoff Johnson: Media literacy programs on rise to help young people tell fact from fiction

The confusing nature of information available online has sparked increase use of media literacy in schools
Opinion: We can’t all live like Albertans

Opinion: We can’t all live like Albertans

If everyone lived a western lifestyle, we would need five Earth’s worth of resources each year. It is not sustainable.