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Carbon Capture And Sequestration (CCS)
By Pete Scales M.Ag, BSc EP This globe of ours is heating up. And now, just a month after the historic Paris Agreement on climate change it is generally acknowledged that this temperature increase is largely man made and that we have to do something to keep the temperatures from rising more than 1.5° Celsius, […]
CPR, AEDs And 911 Saving Lives
By Pete Scales M.Ag, BSc EP Two short, three-letter abbreviations and three numbers that when used together can save the life of a loved one or a complete stranger. CPR – Cardio (meaning heart) plus Pulmonary (meaning lungs) and Resuscitation (meaning restore) – has been around for approximately fifty years and in that time has undergone […]
How Science Proved That Vancouver’s Insite Works
By Pete Scales M.Ag, BSc (hon) Photo credit to www.huffingtonpost.com Vancouver’s safe injection site, Insite, a project that started out as an experiment, works but it took a good dose of scientific method and scrupulous data crunching to prove it. Researchers had to find a way to cut through biases of a sceptical public and a suspicious […]
The Valley Food and Farm Collective A call-to-action to create meaningful food culture in the Fraser Valley
(Abbotsford, BC) Credited as a city of momentum, Abbotsford has approached its tipping point, and the latest endeavour is the Valley Food and Farm Collective (VFF), which launches on Thursday, July 26th. Spearheaded by Josh Vanderheide, Owner of Field House Brewing, and Bonnie Friesen, Executive Chef and Head of Food Services at Field House Brewing, […]
Truck driving is Ranked # 7 as the most dangerous occupation in America
This article has been written and submitted by: Sharan Gill: 604-897-3397 Based on a study completed in 2016 (Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries). Truck driving is a dangerous job because of the weather, equipment malfunction and other careless drivers. This risk is present at any time and any place when a truck driver is on […]