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Opinion: My pledge to protect families

Opinion: My pledge to protect families

Over 2022, the federal NDP has scored successes in making lives easier for working families ― and the party will continue its efforts in 2023, says New Westminster-Burnaby MP Peter Julian.
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Survey: Service and other factors that trigger tipping’s tipping point across Canada

Survey: Service and other factors that trigger tipping’s tipping point across Canada

For the past couple of years, social media users have shared pictures of the “suggested tip amounts” they have encountered when the bill is brought to them at a restaurant or when they try to pay for a meal using a credit card.
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Letter: B.C.'s community health-care workers need a fair deal

Letter: B.C.'s community health-care workers need a fair deal

Undervaluing community-based health care puts a strain on the entire health-care system, says this union president.
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Letter: Community First isn't helping New West residents

Letter: Community First isn't helping New West residents

An increase in utility rates doesn't sit well with this resident.
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YVR’s winter meltdown a failure in crisis leadership

YVR’s winter meltdown a failure in crisis leadership

Winter storms cancel flights and disrupt airport operations. Everyone knows that. Yet, when Metro Vancouver’s forecast delivered on its promise, the one entity required to trigger an adequate crisis response froze.
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Survey: B.C.’s justice system under-funded, overly soft on offenders, respondents say

Survey: B.C.’s justice system under-funded, overly soft on offenders, respondents say

13 per cent of British Columbians provided the poorest grade available to the province’s justice system
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Letter: Thank you to two kind strangers in the New West snow

Letter: Thank you to two kind strangers in the New West snow

When she fell into a mound of snow and couldn't get up, these folks were there to help.
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Jack Knox: 22 non-COVID stories of 2022

Jack Knox: 22 non-COVID stories of 2022

From the Saanich shootout to picklebrawl, this was the year post-pandemic life got moving again, in good ways and bad.
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Keith Baldrey: Eby government pits new ministry against natural disasters

Keith Baldrey: Eby government pits new ministry against natural disasters

Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness highlights rising concerns over weather-caused disasters in B.C.
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Carson Binda: Life in Canada, B.C. will get more expensive in 2023 thanks to tax hikes

Carson Binda: Life in Canada, B.C. will get more expensive in 2023 thanks to tax hikes

Next year, everything will feel more expensive as tax hikes will take a bigger chunk out of your paycheque. Both the Trudeau and Eby governments plan to hike taxes in 2023.
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