A letter to UVic: It’s not you, it’s me-ortgage rates May 11, 2017May 10, 2017 Sonia Hrynchyshyn Dear UVic, I have a confession: I’m a nerd. That’s right; a pun-loving, glasses-wearing, life-long learner, a lover of science and politics and all things academic. I am involved in departmental...
Vancouver Aquarium ends captivity while Marineland ignores the whales in the room May 11, 2017May 10, 2017 Sonia Hrynchyshyn On March 9, 2017, the Vancouver Park Board voted unanimously to end the captive beluga breeding program at the Vancouver Aquarium. The vote brings an end to the importation of...
To ban or not to ban the ‘new DDT’ March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 Sonia Hrynchyshyn On Feb. 21, Health Canada was supposed to decide on imposing a phase-out of a neonicotinoid insecticide — imidacloprid — because of its threat to insects and wetland ecosystems. The consultation period was then...
Trump’s ‘war on science’: Just ask Canada February 16, 2017 Sonia Hrynchyshyn On Jan. 25, President Donald Trump announced a temporary media and funding black-out that effectively gagged federal science agencies (including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Health Department)...
