Strangers on the bus (and why we like it that way)
Thanks to my colleague Daphne Bramham for bringing the following ground-breaking study to my attention: After three years, and presumably thousands of dollars, Esther Kim, a Yale University researcher,...
View ArticleHow happy are you? #vansunhappy
A few months ago, I was struck by the number of people I know who have made some dramatic life-change in order to be happier (although many of them viewed it somewhat more negatively as finding a way...
View ArticleHang up on phone spoofing scam artists
Telus is warning customers to hang up on scam artists who are spoofing phone numbers to make it appear as if calls promising prizes are coming from Telus or another well-known company. In spoofing, a...
View ArticleExpiring leases have False Creek residents worried about the future
Two thirds of the 5,500 residents who live on False Creek South, near Granville Island, live on land leased from the city of Vancouver – and those leases have expiration dates. Columnist Daphne Bramham...
View ArticleFive things about Harjit Sajjan, Canada's new minister of defence
Vancouver South MP Harjit Sajjan has been appointed Canada’s new defence minister by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here are 5 things you should know about the 44-year-old former Canadian soldier and...
View ArticleFriday, Jan. 22: BC Liberal’s funding logic questioned
Re: Province refuses to pay for seismic upgrades unless enrolment boosted, Jan. 20 So the BC Liberals refuse to fund seismic upgrades for the Vancouver school board until they can increase the school...
View ArticleSaturday, Feb. 6: Children have lost out
Re: Hopefully, teachers dispute can be resolved, Editorial, Jan. 30 The Sun’s editorial about the ongoing legal proceedings between B.C.’s 41,000 public school teachers and the provincial government...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Five-year sentence sought for notorious pedophile 'Swirl Face'
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Ten more months. That may be all the time that admitted pedophile and notorious sex tourist Christopher Neil spends in jail. It doesn’t seem like much considering what he’s...
View ArticleMay 28: Child watchdog, horse carriages, lead in water, postal banking
Province’s child watchdog indispensible Re: Child watchdog refuses to be brought to heel, Column, May 24 Once again Daphne Bramham hits the nail firmly on its head. We (at least the children of B.C.)...
View ArticleVideo: Facts about Greenland and climate change
Greenland is the world’s largest island at nearly 2.17 million square kilometres, with three-quarters of it covered by a permanent ice sheet. It has been described as “ground zero for climate change...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Arctic expedition begins with sighting of a 'musk rock'
KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland — There’s a queen’s ransom worth of technical gear with us as we headed out from our Ottawa hotel just after 5 a.m. bound for Greenland. We leave the 30-degree-plus heat at the...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Discovering Hudson's Bay Company's last trading post
SOMERSET ISLAND, Nunavut — In 1937, the Hudson’s Bay Company built its last trading post — Fort Ross — at this lonely location at the island’s southeast tip not far from the entrance to Bellot Strait....
View ArticleAugust 26: Domestic violence, taxes, custody, Arctic series
Women suffer brunt of domestic violence Re: Using a false premise, Column, Aug. 20 I was appalled to read the incredibly misleading quotes from UBC psychology professor Donald Dutton. Without citing...
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