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My Covid-19 Heroine – An Appreciation

By Ron Verzuh

“At long last , we have finally made a truly game-changing scientific breakthrough in preventing the spread of COVID-19. We have found a disease-control...
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Golden City Yarns – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Ron Shearer, Chicanery, Civility & Celebrations: Tales of Early Rossland (Rossland: Rossland Heritage Commission, 2019), 170 pages, $24.95 (paper). Kootenay history buffs have long...
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Follow the Black Cat – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Graphic History Collective, Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019), large format, 60...
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Stop subsidizing private health care insurance – A Comment

By Ron Verzuh

Recently, a friend blasted the skeptics who have been poo-pooing Medicare for All as proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren....
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Codename P9 is official selection in New York

By Ron Verzuh

Codename Project 9, my short documentary film on the role of the Trail, B.C., smelter in making the atomic bomb, was judged an “official...
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Leola’s 2020 Summer Fruit & Flower Show – A Covid Breather

August 2, 2020

By Ron Verzuh

Bumble bees, roses, and a yellow Dadhlia as big as a dinner plate

Early August in the garden of lovely Leola. A welcome breather from Trump and that other virus. Beauty provides a little respite from an ugly time. Perhaps a moment of hope. “Fleurs de mal,” wrote the poet long ago, but flowers of love and enchantment as well. Enjoy!

Leola’s Summer Fruit & Flowers 2020 Download

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