by Amelia Ritchie | Jan 22, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
January 4, 2024 | CBC News via UVic News; January 9, 2024 | La Source via UVic News Dr. David Atkinson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, shared expertise on climate and weather in two recent news media. In a discussion...
by Amelia Ritchie | Jan 19, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
January 14, 2024 | The Japan Times via UVic News Discourse surrounding the burning of wood pellets (a type of biofuel that is created from clearcutting in British Columbia forests) as an alternative to fossil fuels is alarmingly misleading, a recent Japan Times...
by Amelia Ritchie | Jan 18, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
December 28, 2023 | BNN Bloomberg via UVic News As explained by BNN Bloomberg’s Jordan Fleguel, Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company Glencore has recently acquired the coal business of Canadian giant Teck Resources Limited. This acquisition...
by Amelia Ritchie | Jan 17, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
January 11, 2024 |Windspeaker via UVic News The George Clutesi: ḥašaḥʔap / ʔaapḥii / ʕc̓ik / ḥaaʔaksuqƛ / ʔiiḥmisʔap exhibit, originally displayed in Port Alberni on Tseshaht traditional territory, will soon open at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast...
by Amelia Ritchie | Jan 16, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
January 4, 2024 | Check News via UVic News The plaque, according to UVic scholar Reuben Rose-Redwood, erases the Indigenous history of Meegan (known by settlers as Beacon Hill Park). Dr. Rose-Redwood is the Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Social Sciences at...
by Amelia Ritchie | Jan 15, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace
December 27, 2023 | TIME via UVic News January 8, 2024 | The New York Times via UVic News UVic’s Dr. Tim Naimi, director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, was quoted recently in TIME and New York Times articles discussing strategies one might use...
