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Comment: B.C. should fight to keep the RCMP

Comment: B.C. should fight to keep the RCMP

Provincial and community leaders better start sharpening their pencils to calculate adverse economics of such a move, and separate fact from fiction.
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Letter: 2.5% inflation? Not if you're trying to park in New West

Letter: 2.5% inflation? Not if you're trying to park in New West

Governments don't understand why we are all slowly going broke, this writer says.
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Baldrey: Changes to Police Act will help avert another Surrey debacle

Baldrey: Changes to Police Act will help avert another Surrey debacle

The BC NDP wants to make sure no one ends up in this mess again. Here's how.
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Opinion: Canadians singing a different tune about COVID-19 health measures after pandemic’s peak

Opinion: Canadians singing a different tune about COVID-19 health measures after pandemic’s peak

Going into a vastly different summer than three years ago, Canadians appear to have turned the page on the pandemic, writes Mario Canseco.
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Monique Keiran: 'Singing' fish drowned out by human-made ocean noise

Monique Keiran: 'Singing' fish drowned out by human-made ocean noise

Just as all the noise humans make is making it harder for whales to hear each other and their own sonar under the waves, fish are struggling to hear over our racket
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Charla Huber: Child-care and family benefits were a game-changer

Charla Huber: Child-care and family benefits were a game-changer

Without the child-care subsidy, I wouldn’t have the career I have today
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Trevor Hancock: We need to start listening to the ‘doomsayers’

Trevor Hancock: We need to start listening to the ‘doomsayers’

The real doomsayers are those who, if we follow what they say, will lead us to our doom, not those issuing prudent warnings of real danger
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Letter: Water meters are the way to go to save money and conserve water

Letter: Water meters are the way to go to save money and conserve water

Do water meters hold the key to saving money and conserving water?
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Kirk LaPointe: Surrey police overhaul started as a bold move and ended as a hot mess

Kirk LaPointe: Surrey police overhaul started as a bold move and ended as a hot mess

Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke would be unwise to litigate following the province's decision on policing in Surrey, writes Kirk LaPointe
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Opinion: Imbalance between new homes and new residents escalating unaffordability in B.C.

Opinion: Imbalance between new homes and new residents escalating unaffordability in B.C.

Growing wedge between the number of new homes being built in B.C. and population growth fuelled by surging in-migration is playing a starring role in the larger housing market story, according to BCBC economists
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