News Items tag as: UBCO research

UBCO researchers determine how many tokes from a joint equal a bong hit
January 26, 2025 - 6:00 AM
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Seven years after Canada legalized cannabis there is still no reliable way for aspiring stoners to find out the effects of different methods for getting high, and University of British Columbia Okanagan scientists are trying to fix that.
Leave the deer alone: We aren't the only ones recovering from wildfires
September 17, 2023 - 4:30 PM

Skeetchestn First Nation is asking the public to leave the deer and their homes alone, particularly after wildfires.
Kamloops and Okanagan cities not ready to call climate change an emergency
July 19, 2019 - 9:30 AM

KELOWNA - It might be the end of the world as we know it, but most municipalities in the Okanagan and the City of Kamloops feel fine, or at least not ready to ring the alarm bells.
$43 billion could be needed for climate change fight, UBCO report shows
June 24, 2019 - 4:30 PM

OKANAGAN - A recent study spearheaded by a UBC Okanagan professor said the fight against environmental change needs to begin on the local level, but that doesn't mean victory will come cheap.
UBCO research shows low density neighbourhoods use way too much water
August 16, 2017 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA - A UBC Okanagan student’s research shows that higher density communities use much less water than single family homes.
UBC Okanagan research leading to green solutions
March 03, 2017 - 2:30 PM

KELOWNA - A team of researchers at UBC Okanagan is working on unique ways to recycle materials that would otherwise be thrown into the landfill.
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THOMPSON: Can America live through four more years of Donald Trump, and survive?
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BC bar fined $3,000 for clearing drinks from table 12 minutes late
A BC bar has been fined $3,000 for being 12 minutes late clearing a table. According to a Jan. 15 BC Liquor and Cannabis Branch decision, the bar was required to clear any alcoholic drinks from tables 30 minutes after last call. The d

UBCO researchers determine how many tokes from a joint equal a bong hit
Seven years after Canada legalized cannabis there is still no reliable way for aspiring stoners to find out the effects of different methods for getting high, and University of British Columbia Okanagan scientists are trying to fix that. Re

Only 10 per cent of Kelowna rental building permits are affordable housing
Roughly 10 per cent of building permits for new rentals in Kelowna are going to be affordable, despite that the city's housing policy manager said the rental market is starting to make a turn for the better. “We're going to be

News Items tag as: UBCO research

UBCO researchers determine how many tokes from a joint equal a bong hit

Leave the deer alone: We aren't the only ones recovering from wildfires

Kamloops and Okanagan cities not ready to call climate change an emergency

$43 billion could be needed for climate change fight, UBCO report shows

UBCO research shows low density neighbourhoods use way too much water

UBC Okanagan research leading to green solutions

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