With the 2019 UN climate action summit now underway in New York City, environmental journalist and UVic PhD candidate Carol Linnitt reflects on Canadian media’s commitment to
covering environmental issues.
University of Victoria synthetic chemist Jeremy Wulff's research group has developed a vital link for a multi-university project that will design high-performance protective wear
to keep Canadian soldiers safer and more comfortable during their missions.
Daniel Westlake (Dept. of Political Science) is available to media to discuss the election of Paul Manly in Monday's Nanaimo-Ladysmith byelection, winning only the second Green
Party seat in the House of Commons.
Kate Field, a geography grad student, is lead author of a study focusing on the animal care policies used by peer-reviewed journals that commonly publish wildlife research. Here
she answers questions about her new research, which she hopes will safeguard wildlife from unethical research practices.
UVic privacy expert Colin Bennett is available to media to discuss the findings in a report expected on Feb. 6 by the BC Information and Privacy Commissioner on the use of personal
data by political parties.
Val Napoleon is an expert on Indigenous systems of law and governance and can discuss the “oversimplified dichotomy between hereditary chiefs and elected band councils”, Indigenous
legalities and lawfulness, legal processes, and possible strategies for rebuilding Indigenous law for a productive multi-juridical Canada.
Two UVic researchers are available to media for expert comment on the results announced Dec. 20 of the 2018 referendum on BC electoral reform. Sixty-one per cent of voters wanted
to keep first-past-the-post and now it's breaking news.
The provincial government released its Climate Action Plan today. UVic faculty members and those who work in climate-related institutes are available to media to discuss the
strategy, including the need to give climate change mitigation and adaption equal attention.
University of Victoria substance use experts Scott MacDonald and Tim Stockwell are available to media for perspective on the Canadian government's changes to drug-impaired driving
laws, including the introduction of mandatory alcohol screening, set to come into force on December 18.
UVic historian Jason Colby is a specialist on the history of people and marine mammals in the Pacific Northwest and is available to offer media an expert perspective on the crisis
facing the endangered southern resident killer whale population, with the recent loss of the J-pod calf.