Acclimatizing to Change
Canada issued a ban on the manufacture and import of plastics in December of last year. By December 2023, all non-reusable plastic materials such as...
climate change
Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril
Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril Thomas Homer-Dixon Vintage Canada, 2022 464 pages ISBN: 978-0307363176 $24.00 Reviewed...
Urban Issues Film Festival
The Urban Issues Film Festival is coming back this Friday to VIU for the first time since 2019 as part of Global Citizens Week. “It’s great to be...
A Rich and Majestic Land
VIU’s Engaged Citizens Speaker series returns on February 8, 2022, with an important human rights issue—climate change. Sheila Watt-Cloutier Siila's...
Precedented Times
The extreme flooding in southern BC has been and continues to be devastating. The prolonged heavy rainfall caused mudslides that blocked and...
A Call for Greater Climate Action at VIU
VIU students, staff, and faculty, along with community members, are calling on the university to take more action against climate change. In an open...