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Rob Shaw: B.C. drug crisis report recommends the urgent action we already know is needed

Rob Shaw: B.C. drug crisis report recommends the urgent action we already know is needed

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Letter: New West bike lane interferes with bus stops

Letter: New West bike lane interferes with bus stops

What do you do if you can't walk the extra block?
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Les Leyne: Committee urges same response to drug crisis as to pandemic

Les Leyne: Committee urges same response to drug crisis as to pandemic

Ten thousand people have died in the six years since the emergency was declared — illicit drug toxicity is the leading cause of unnatural death in B.C., more than homicides, car crashes, drowning and fires combined
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Rob Shaw: B.C.’s long-awaited doctor pay model plan leaves patients waiting for results

Rob Shaw: B.C.’s long-awaited doctor pay model plan leaves patients waiting for results

Health Minister Adrian Dix’s new plan to fix the family doctor system is as expensive as it is ambitious.
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Letter: Tax the corporations that are profiting while we suffer

Letter: Tax the corporations that are profiting while we suffer

Tired of being a pawn in the corporate game of winner take all? Then ask Trudeau to introduce a Windfall Profits Tax.
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Survey: Pierre Poilievre factor looms large in the realignment of Canada’s political map

Survey: Pierre Poilievre factor looms large in the realignment of Canada’s political map

Among Canadian decided voters, the Conservatives are in first place with 35 per cent, followed by the Liberals with 31 per cent.
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Letter: Pedestrians, you need to keep yourselves safe

Letter: Pedestrians, you need to keep yourselves safe

If you get into a duel with a car, guess who's going to win?
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Keith Baldrey: Security costs sink provincial support for hosting another Olympics

Keith Baldrey: Security costs sink provincial support for hosting another Olympics

BC NDP government wary after price tag for keeping 2010 Games safe ballooned from $175 million to nearly $1 billion.
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Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

First, adults decided to use the occasion to dress up as Sexy Whatevers and party in a way that caused them to lose their inhibitions/undergarments/stomach contents. Then, worse, it became an excuse to show up for work in a moose suit
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Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Those who talk loudly on cellphones in public places are acting as though others are A) invisible, B) deaf, or C) insignificant, so why not make eye contact, laugh at their jokes and add your own two cents’ worth?
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