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Teaching reading, the thing that the men and women who teach in kindergarten to Grade 4 classrooms do every day is, akin to a magic act. It is an amazing feat of patience, skill and experience on the part of these teachers that any of us can read at all. I am in awe of those people.
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Twelve-year-old Martina Maturana saved the lives of her
family and her neighbours because she knew exactly what to do when
one of the biggest earthquakes in Chile's recorded history rocked
her community last year. Ten-year-old Tilly Smith saved her family
and hundreds of other tourists on the island of Phuket because she
had learned to recognize tsunami warning signs in geography class at
school.
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F-35 jets and the military-industrial complex
Fifty years ago this week, on Jan. 17, 1961, Americans gathered around their TV sets to watch President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell speech from the White House. He chose his words carefully, and warned the American people about the growth in economic power and political influence of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry.
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UVic health-care team heads to Honduras
In a seven-day visit in Honduras, a University of Victoria student-run non-profit will help bring medical and dental treatment to more than 1,500 people and -- with your help -- supply medicines, eyeglasses, school supplies and other basics.
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Census battle too important to give up
What has happened to the fuss over the census? Remember the story? Last summer the prime minister cancelled the mandatory long-form census and replaced it with a voluntary national household survey.
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Ex-Mulroney aide passionate in all he did
Bear. That was his nickname on the prime minister's staff bus. Because during the long Ottawa winters, Michel Gratton looked like one, with his full beard, long hair and knee-length fur coat.
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Helping all the Baby Mollys
Our shared response to the challenges faced by Baby Molly and her family has been wonderful -- generous, compassionate and heartwarming.
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Universities the authors of their own woes
The column by the presidents of the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University and Geoff Plant in the Dec. 31 issue shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the true roles of a university and its relations with its community and provincial home.
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Lessons of the BP disaster
Last spring, as oil poured from a blasted BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, Quebecers were riveted -- with cause. The explosion and environmental devastation came just as Quebec was setting off on its own drilling adventures in far less hospitable places.
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Is tanning debate the new tobacco war?
As I sit at home in retirement, I feel a sense of déjà vu stemming from the current clash in the Capital Regional District between health professionals and a powerful industry over an apparent hazard to the public.
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The real blasphemy in Pakistan
In June 2009 in Punjab, Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a mother of five and a farmhand, was asked to fetch water. She complied, but some of her Muslim co-workers refused to drink the water, as Bibi is a Christian and considered "unclean" by them.
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High home prices hurt
What's wrong with us in B.C.? When the price of housing goes so high that people not yet on the property ladder have little hope of affording anything in the community they grew up in, we celebrate the rise of property values. It's like we take pride in the out-of-control price increases.
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Iain Hunter
Dishonest politicians drive away voters
To this small boy, the seed cases of the plant look like translucent coins. He asks the old Scots gardener digging in the bed what they are.
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