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David Sovka: Global warming is man against everything, everywhere all at once

David Sovka: Global warming is man against everything, everywhere all at once

July 2023 is now officially the hottest month in human history, and August will probably be even hotter. I wish I were making this up.
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Opinion: How language can turn down the temperature of heated climate change discourse

Opinion: How language can turn down the temperature of heated climate change discourse

Language is adaptive, self-balancing and evolves with environmental change. Understanding this may be the key to improving the conversation around climate change.
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Letter: Take action against drug use outside New West library

Letter: Take action against drug use outside New West library

​​​​​​​Toddlers and schoolchildren should be spared up-close view of horrors of addiction while entering or exiting the library, reader says.
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Goodman and Jagger: Time to return to predictable rental rate increases

Goodman and Jagger: Time to return to predictable rental rate increases

The B.C. NDP government has strayed from the traditional formula for rent increases
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Jamie Stephen: Canada's greatest climate challenge and responsibility is our forests

Jamie Stephen: Canada's greatest climate challenge and responsibility is our forests

As the world gets hotter, the need for human intervention in forests goes up, not down, writes Jamie Stephen.
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Suzanne Anton: We need to change the way decisions are made about our health

Suzanne Anton: We need to change the way decisions are made about our health

Too much power is invested in an unelected official, B.C.'s former attorney general argues
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Keith Baldrey: Get ready for more labour disruption

Keith Baldrey: Get ready for more labour disruption

Economic uncertainty, failure of wages to keep up with cost of living drive wave of strikes in B.C. and across the country.
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Rob Shaw: Sharma squires Swiss springboard to staff summer sojourns

Rob Shaw: Sharma squires Swiss springboard to staff summer sojourns

Attorney General and party of five take in Geneva UN conference, four of them then stayed for vacation
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Opinion: Together we can fix homelessness in New West

Opinion: Together we can fix homelessness in New West

A young New West resident ponders the consequences of the housing crisis.
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Letter: Water shortages need a solution — but meters aren't it

Letter: Water shortages need a solution — but meters aren't it

"It is good to remind each other that we have a limited resource and we all need to work together."
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