On Dec. 29 at 11 p.m., just before the start of a new year, in Kelowna, B.C., found a dead man who had been living in a tent. Probable cause of death: hypothermia. The 34-year-old had frozen to death.

If youSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™re looking to start an argument, ask a roomful of parents whether schools should be re-opened.

An X-ray is an effective window into the bodySA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s internal structures.

When I first met people who had changed their names part-way through their lives, they werenSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™t part of the transgender community but part of the leftist-environmentalist diaspora in the oil-fuelled, cattle-studded city of Calgary. My friends named themselves after their favourite animals and the qualities they most respected in people. I remember my initial response as surprise, curiosity and an odd kind of judgement.

ItSA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™s become somewhat trendy over the past several years to acknowledge the historical usurping of Indigenous lands.

We often speak of SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½˜back to normal,SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ a SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½˜reset,SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ or SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½˜before the pandemic;SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™ however, was it that desirable?

Steve Norn is giving himself another chance.

Again, this never happens to me so ISA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½™m going to whine about it.

I am thrilled to be working with the West Vancouver Memorial Library as the climate writer in residence for the next few months. I believe that this is the first position of its kind in Canada and I hope that other libraries will follow the lead especially public libraries across the north. It is important that libraries work to showcase the amount of talent there is in the north with both emerging and seasoned writers but also to ensure that the conversation is flowing about global warming.

Clinophile.