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Board-game nights, podcast sessions, Mandarin classes, astrology lectures. With offerings like these, public libraries are rewriting their story. The twenty-first century library is still a…

For four years, Susan Dempsey, a counsellor at the University of Victoria, worked with an undergraduate student with serious anxiety, seeing her every three to…

It’s often said that you’re either a dog lover or a cat lover. You can’t be both, unless you are PEA member Tracey Sutcliffe, a…

Stop by the rink in Powell River on Sunday nights and you’ll likely catch father and son Mark and Eric Scott tearing up the ice…

Drive onto the grounds of St. Margaret’s School in Saanich and you feel miles away from the bustling neighbourhood surrounding it. Tall trees line the…

When Aimee Cho tries to recall the year she became a delegate to the New Westminster and District Labour Council (NWDLC), she arrives at the…

For her grade 12 year, Sheryl Karras packed her bags and traded Salmon Arm for Japan, where she lived with a family, went to school…

Foresters oversee the planting of around 250 million trees each year in British Columbia. For every site where trees are planted, a decision has to…

Based in Prince George, Dwayne Anderson was one of several PEA members recruited in 2021. A Timber Pricing Officer who is responsible for the Coastal…

At the PEA’s convention in 2013, long-time member Trudy Goold received a PEA Service Award for her many years of dedicated service to the union….

When a Nanaimo beekeeper spotted large wasp-like creatures pestering his honeybee colonies in August 2019, Paul van Westendorp arrived on scene to investigate. Van Westendorp,…

Access to Justice: Legal Aid Chapter Represents People in Need, Upholds Canadian Democratic Values Words by Jessica Natale Woollard, Photos by Jeff Topham and Camus…