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"We need to move from making things as safe as possible to making them as safe as necessary," says UBC professor Mariana Brussoni. She's researching the negative unintended consequences of Canada's new "safetyism."

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Drownings are in the news in B.C. this year because they’ve increased almost 50 per cent from the same point last year, according to the Lifesaving Society of B.C. So far 32 people have drowned.

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The upsetting trend makes it a hard time to extol the virtues of the outdoors, especially when it comes to young people.

News stories of ever-present hazards also produce less tolerance of old-timers waxing on about how they, back in the day, loved unsupervised fun in the ocean, walking to school by themselves in Grade 1, playing in the open fields near our houses or putting together a baseball game on city........

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