by Sonia Hrynchyshyn | May 11, 2017 | Letters, Opinions
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 clubs and avidly uninteresting at parties unless I have someone to talk...
by Sonia Hrynchyshyn | May 11, 2017 | Op-eds, Opinions
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 cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) into the facility, dissolving their whale...
by Sonia Hrynchyshyn | Mar 23, 2017 | News, Science
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 extended to March 23. Traditionally, the use of...
by Sonia Hrynchyshyn | Feb 16, 2017 | Op-eds, Opinions
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) and clenching research grants in a big neoliberal...