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Canada Must Electrify Its Economy Faster or Risk Falling Further and Further Behind
Canada could unlock trillions of dollars in economic growth by rapidly expanding electricity supply and electrifying transportation, buildings…
#Canada #bchydro #CanadianChamberofCommerce #cleanenergy #electricity #electrification #EVs #HeatPumps #Interties #NewEconomyCanada #PowerGrids #UniversityofVictoria
https://www.europesays.com/canada/241127/
Canada Must Electrify Its Economy Faster or Risk Falling Further and Further Behind https://www.byteseu.com/2432648/ #BCHydro #Canada #CanadianChamberOfCommerce #CleanEnergy #electricity #electrification #EVs #HeatPumps #Interties #NewEconomyCanada #PowerGrids #UniversityOfVictoria
Amazing! The Dreams & Riddles EP that @paul_griffin and I released a couple of months ago just reached #1 on the CFUV 101.9 FM Electronic Music chart 🥳
Big love to CFUV for supporting independent music!
https://www.earshot-online.com/charts/cfuv.cfm?intChartTypeID=2&dWeekOfID=2026-09-29
https://socool.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-riddles
#radio #VictoriaBC #CFUV #CFUVRadio #UniversityOfVictoria #UVic #CampusAndCommunityRadio
New research finds electrifying Canada could add $3 trillion to the economy
New economic modelling finds that doubling Canada’s electricity supply and putting more clean power to work across the…
#Canada #CanadianChamberofCommerce #electricitygrid #NewEconomyCanada #OpenInsightsinitiative #PoweringCanadaStrong #UniversityofVictoria
https://www.europesays.com/canada/232795/
CfAR shows off satellites, drone outside of B.C. Legislature
The showcase included their soon-to-be-launched MARMOTSat satellite and the MIMIQ-25 quadcopter On Wednesday, April 29, members of UVic’s…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #CA #Canada #centreforaerospaceresearch #cfar #cfaruvic #Drones #healthcaredrones #marmotsat #mimiq-25 #ORCASat #polarlink #Ruralhealthcare #UniversityofVictoria #uvic #uviccfar #uvicmarmotsat #uvicorcasat
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/671888/
Exterior of #FarquharAuditorium building on #UVic campus.
Original shot & 2 mirrored edits.
#WorldInMyEyes #photography #architecture #mirrored #urban #VendrediFenêtre #WindowsWednesday #Fenêtre #Windows #symmetry #symmetrical #art #VisualArt #DisabledPhotographers #CreativeArtist #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #UniversityOfVictoria #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #geometrical
Starlink Community program aims to provide high speed internet in underserved areas – World
In a quiet impactful move, SpaceX has introduced a new initiative called Starlink Community that could make satellite…
#NewsBeep #News #Internet #announcement #CA #Canada #communities #CommunityHotspot #ElonMusk #High-speedinternet #launch #Singledevice #SpaceX #Starlink #StarlinkCommunity #Starlinkterminal #Technology #UniversityofVictoria
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/47858/
A Massive Fault Line Was Supposed to Be ‘Dead’. It Sure Seems Like It’s Stirring Again.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Earthquakes #faultscarps #Tintinafault #UniversityofVictoria
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/60821/
The Ocean Got Too Hot – And Life Collapsed From Plankton to Whales
The marine heatwave of 2014 to 2016 devastated the Northeast Pacific coast, shaking ecosystems from plankton to whales and triggering mass die-offs, migrations, and fishery collapses
https://scitechdaily.com/the-ocean-got-too-hot-and-life-collapsed-from-plankton-to-whales/
#Baum Lab
#FisheriesAndOceansCanada
#UniversityOfVictoria #UVic
#climateDiary #marineLife
#oceanWarming #climateChange
#ScienceDaily
Land defenders build tiny house in Campus Community Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1348665/land-defenders-build-tiny-house-in-campus-community-garden/ #CampusCommunityGarden #CampusCommunityGardens #ccg #CCGUvic #colonialism #FriendsOfGitxsanAndGitanyow #garden #gitanyow #gitxstan #IndigenousSovereignty #LandDefender #Pipeline #PRGTPipeline #PrinceRupertGasTransmissionPipeline #resilience #StudentProject #TinyHome #TinyHomeProject #TinyHouse #UniversityOfVictoria #uvic #UvicCCG #UVicGardens
Underwater gardeners work to restore majestic #kelp forests off Vancouver Island
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/underwater-gardeners-work-to-restore-majestic-kelp-forests-off-vancouver-island-9161135
"In the chilly waters of #VancouverIsland's #BarkleySound, gardeners are at work on the sea floor. They are #scientists from the #UniversityOfVictoria who are trying to regrow #KelpForests, a crucial part of the marine habitat, amid threats from #HeatWaves, #ClimateChange and voracious #SeaUrchins."
#UniversityOfVictoria #Students’ Society is calling for #opioid #overdose reversing #naloxone kits on campus residence floors and mandatory naloxone training following the fatal overdose of a first-year student.
Isabelle Easton, director of campaigns and community relations for the students’ society, said the group is looking into having #MandatoryTraining for all students during orientation at #UVic, in partnership with university administration.
Please sign this #solidarity letter if you're a #UVIC student or alumni. Please share it across your social media networks.
UVic #Student and #Alumni Letter of Support for People's Park #SolidarityEncampment
#VictoriaBC #YYJ #StudentSpring #VancouverIsland #StudentsForCeasefire #AntiWar #AntiGenocide #ProPeace #ProHumanRights #HumanityNeeded #DiscloseDivest #GazaSolidarity #VancouverIsland #BCStudents #DissentersForPeace #UniversityOfVictoria
Influenced (2024) [2 min] by Sophie Jackson | #Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ken0127nEE
#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Influence #Tiktok #Influencer #UVIC #UniversityOfVictoria
#UniversityOfVictoria professor #resigned from federal #disability advisory group saying funds allocated for #DisabledCanadians are inadequate.
#UVic professor Michael Prince resigned from #GovernmentOfCanada #DisabilityAdvisoryGroup in #protest after being appointed to it in 2020.
In 2023, the federal government passed the #Canada #DisabilityBenefitAct to help financially support #Canadians living with a disability
Global News BC: Tuberculosis case detected at University of Victoria https://globalnews.ca/news/10083141/tuberculosis-case-detected-at-university-of-victoria/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #UniversityOfVictoria #Tuberculosis #Health #TB
The Tyee: Why We Need a ‘Slow Water’ Movement https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/25/Why-We-Need-Slow-Water-Movement/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #WaterAlwaysWins:ThrivinginanAgeofDroughtandDeluge #LassenVolcanicNationalPark #FraserValleyfloodplain #HarveyS.Southamlecture #climatechangeandwater #UniversityofVictoria #DixiefireCalifornia #forestfiresandwater #sociohydrology #waterscarcity #sealevelrise #watercycle #BCdrought #EricaGies #SlowWater
Global News BC: Deep sea robot expedition sets sails off Vancouver Island coast https://globalnews.ca/news/9792624/deep-sea-robot-expedition-vancouver-island-coast/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Deepsearobotexpedition #OceanExplorationTrust #UniversityOfVictoria #oceannetworkscanada #Deepseaexpedition #VancouverIsland #pacificocean #Environment #Education #BCdeepsea #UVic #ONC #BC
Challenging racism in Canada
https://challengingracism.ca/
An open source publication of the University of Victoria research project Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC Office)
#Canada #racism #SystemicRacism #StructuralViolence #indigenous #AsianCanadians #UVic #UniversityOfVictoria
The Tyee: 'We Looked into the Eyes of the Beast' https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/15/Ken-Pite-Lytton-Fire/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheClimateDisasterProject #Canadaall-timeheatrecord #UniversityofVictoria #Lyttoncommunityplan #BCclimatedisasters #BracingforDisaster #Lyttonfirefighters #Lyttonrebuilding #BCheatdome2021 #Lytton2021fire #Lyttonrecovery
The Tyee: The War on Journalists (in Analysis) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/04/13/War-on-Journalists/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #NewYorkUniversityjournalismprofessorJayRosen #FacebookCEOMarkZuckerberg #socialmediajournalism #UniversityofVictoria #CanadianJournalism #Canadiannewsmedia #WaronJournalists #ElonMuskTwitter #MaxFisherauthor #HarveySoutham #Postmediacuts #DanielHallin #TorstarCuts #QAnon
If you also live on #VancouverIsland - you'll likely remember this #rabbits issue.
The #UniversityOfVictoria got rid of its rabbits. Then the problems started elsewhere.
https://www.canadaland.com/down-the-rabbit-hole-the-story-of-the-uvic-bunnies
Global News BC: ‘This is not a super safe world’: B.C. researcher examines how children are targeted online https://globalnews.ca/news/9557418/bc-online-child-exploitation-predators/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #onlinechildsexualexploitationresearch #Whenshouldachildbeallowedonline #onlinechildsexualexploitation #Parentsallowingchildrenonline #dangersfacingchildrenonline #UniversityOfVictoria #Dr.JanKietzmann #childrenonline #ICIS2022 #Tech #ICIS
The Tyee: We Need to Talk about Private Forest Lands (in Analysis) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/16/Private-Forest-Land/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #AncientForestAllianceCo-FounderTJWatt #OsgoodeHallLawSchool,YorkUniversity #PrivateForestLandownersAssociation #TheForestRangeandPracticesAct #PrivateManagedForestLandsAct #GovernmentActionRegulations #MosaicForestManagement #BCNDPleaderJohnHorgan #UniversityofVictoria #UniversityofToronto #CampbellRiver,B.C. #Hul’qumi’numPeople
The Tyee: Against a Black ‘Monolith’ (in Culture) https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/03/09/Esi-Edugyan-Interview/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #BCBlackHistoryAwarenessSociety #Half-BloodBlues,EsiEdugyan #WashingtonBlack,EsiEdugyan #UniversityofVictoria #AmberValley,Alberta #B.C.poetPatrickLane #Charlottesville,VA #CBCMasseyLecture #LornaCrozier #SanFrancisco #JackHodgins #BillGaston #EsiEdugyan
The Tyee: For Christy, Who Lived Fiercely and Died Precariously (in Analysis) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/02/02/Christy-Lived-Fiercely-Died-Precariously/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncil #CanadianInstitutesforHealthResearch #UniversityofVictoria(UVic) #HousingFirstprograms #DeniseCloutier,UVic #CanadaPensionPlan #RuthKampen,UVic #KendallFraser #NicoleChaland #AudreyTung #BrenéBrown #Sidney
The Tyee: Learn about Today’s ‘War on Journalists’ (in Culture) https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/01/31/Todays-War-On-Journalists/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #PhilippinesPresidentRodrigoDuterte #HungarianPrimeMinisterViktorOrban #RussianPresidentVladimirPutin #FacebookCEOMarkZuckerberg #HarveyS.Southamlecture #UniversityofVictoria #MotherJonesMagazine #CarletonUniversity #TheCapitalDaily #SouthamLecture #HannahArendt #DonaldTrump #DavidBeers #Postmedia #ElonMusk #JoeRogan
Global News BC: ‘First of its kind’ study by B.C. scientists links air pollution to decrease in brain function https://globalnews.ca/news/9433325/bc-study-air-pollution-decrease-in-brain-function/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #decreasedbrainfunctionlinkedtotrafficpollution #airpollutionbrainfunctiondecreased #trafficpollutionhealthimpacts #UniversityOfBritishColumbia #airpollutionhealthimpacts #airpollutionubcstudy #UniversityOfVictoria #B.C.wildfireseason #WildfireSmoke #Health
@thetyee: "We’re Losing Journalists. And PR Jobs Are Rising
The state of #CanadianMedia in four graphs, according to new census data.
"While there are alternatives to #CorporateMedia on the rise, journalists are also “fighting a rearguard against the forces of misinformation and disinformation,” says #SeanHolman, a professor of environmental and #ClimateJournalism at the #UniversityOfVictoria."