The DRIPA Factor and BC’s Election

When orange, red, yellow, and purple tulips flanked the apartment entryway, that meant my neighbour Ed was back outside in the dirt after a winter indoors. Coming home to the bloom of those small garden plots was the official first sign of spring throughout my 15-year tenure living in a studio apartment a couple of blocks shy of Commercial Drive on Vancouver’s Broadway. As the season progressed, Ed would start planting vegetables and update me on how the potatoes, onions and hot peppers were doing when I stopped to chat on my way home from work.

Dr. Anne Aspler, author of Rise After Silence. As an emergency doctor, Dr. Anne Aspler is very candid about her role in medicine. “Sometimes, I feel like the only life I’ve really meaningfully managed to save is my own. We carry things that feel impossible to let go of. I’ve hidden behind the strong and important label of emergency doctor, but what people don’t know about me is I’m also a survivor of childhood sexual assault.”

The latest book by Canadian journalist and author Carol Off is a deep dive into what makes Canada the place that it is. When I was growing up on my grandparent’s farm on Kootenay Lake, I developed a near-obliterating hatred of trespassers.

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Breaking City of Toronto election sign rules may be more serious than you think with $200 fines or Toronto Police Service reports. Signs for candidate Amanda Coombs have been stolen and damaged in Ward 7 Humber River-Black Creek.

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