Heroin, motherhood, salmon
Document Tools
Deadly heroin on the streets
The B.C. Coroners Service is warning about killer heroin on the streets of Metro Vancouver, citing 20 heroin-related overdose deaths in the first four-months of the year. That’s more than double the number for the same time period a year ago. Kelowna RCMP earlier issued a similar warning. SFU criminologist Neil Boyd can provide comment on the deadly hazard.
Neil Boyd, 778.782.3324; nboyd@sfu.ca
Torn – working mom writes on motherhood
Like all working moms, Liesl Jurock struggles to find a balance between work and motherhood. A full-time SFU co-op coordinator, she makes time in the evening to write weekly entries about the trials and joys of being a mother to four-year-old son Lucas on her blog, www.mamaslog.com/. Just in time for Mother’s Day, two of her essays on balancing career, kids and family life have been published in separate print anthologies. The first, Cupcake Crazy, appears in Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, the Conflict of Modern Motherhood (Coffeetown Press, May 2011). And the second, Six Days In, has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms (Simon & Schuster, March 2011). “I feel like I have a good balance right now,” says Jurock. “As long as I remember to sleep.” Jurock will be at a book-launch party May 26, 7:30 pm, at Vancouver’s Rhizome Café.
Liesl Jurock, 604.839.0809 (cell); lrjurock@sfu.ca
New angle on salmon disease
SFU salmon expert John Reynolds isn’t ready to let fish farms off the hook yet because of a new study that suggests a mysterious pathogen, working in concert with other stressors, could be behind the collapse of sockeye salmon runs in the Fraser River. Scientific American has published a report about the study, quoting Reynolds as saying: “The possibility of a disease affecting these fish has been on the table long before this paper came out and the usual suspect has been fish farms. My impression is that the hard evidence isn't there yet to either implicate fish farms or to let them off the hook.”
John Reynolds, 778.782.5636, reynolds@sfu.ca
Tonight:
Understanding global warming
Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria professor in ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences and a Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis, will present a talk based on his new book Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming, at Harbour Centre, SFU Vancouver tonight. Weaver will explain the phenomenon of global warming, outline the threat it presents to future generations and offer paths to solving the problem. Continuing Studies in Science and Environment is hosting the free public lecture at 7 p.m., room 1800. Reservations are recommended as seating is limited.