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Opinion: We must fix our failure to fight online hate and harassment

Opinion: We must fix our failure to fight online hate and harassment

For seven years, Jody Vance’s world was turned upside down, inside out, scrambled, stalked, shattered and scarred.
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Letter: Halt on heritage applications hurts homeowners in New West

Letter: Halt on heritage applications hurts homeowners in New West

Two years and no action: Is it time to un-freeze the freeze on heritage revitalization agreements in Queen’s Park?
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Letter: Action to improve pedestrian safety in New West is rushed and illogical

Letter: Action to improve pedestrian safety in New West is rushed and illogical

This New West resident believes a “well-thought-out plan” is needed for pedestrian safety – not “panicked” decision-making
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Rob Shaw: B.C. has 11 days left to spend all of its unprecedented surplus. It likely can't

Rob Shaw: B.C. has 11 days left to spend all of its unprecedented surplus. It likely can't

The B.C. government has embarked on an unprecedented spending spree over the past four months, shovelling billions of dollars of an unexpectedly large budget surplus out the door to community groups, transit organizations and municipalities.
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Keith Baldrey: Trudeau holds strategic edge over Poilievre in poll

Keith Baldrey: Trudeau holds strategic edge over Poilievre in poll

Conservative Leader “lags in likeability, while his party lags in must-win areas,” Angus Reid notes in its analysis.
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Letter: 'Homes in the sky' are a blight on Metro Vancouver's landscape

Letter: 'Homes in the sky' are a blight on Metro Vancouver's landscape

It's time for more creative solutions to the housing crisis, this letter writer says.
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Letter: Police the parklet — we want our neighbourhood back

Letter: Police the parklet — we want our neighbourhood back

The parklet was a good idea once, this writer says — but maybe not anymore.
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Rob Shaw: For Premier David Eby, doling out cash isn't rewarding

Rob Shaw: For Premier David Eby, doling out cash isn't rewarding

In using his nearly $6 billion budget surplus, Eby expected more of a political payoff
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Letter: You don't get a say over who uses the Belmont parklet

Letter: You don't get a say over who uses the Belmont parklet

It's a public space, so the public gets to use it, this writer says.
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Rob Shaw: Surplus spending not yet moving the needle on crises – or BC NDP’s popularity problem

Rob Shaw: Surplus spending not yet moving the needle on crises – or BC NDP’s popularity problem

How much support can $6 billion buy you? It’s a question Premier David Eby must be asking, after shovelling a good chunk of that cash out the door recently in a bonanza of feel-good announcements – yet largely failing to see any resulting
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