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Letter: COVID-19 demands drivers stop reckless acts

Letter: COVID-19 demands drivers stop reckless acts

Editor: We now know COVID-19 will within weeks place an enormous and possibly impossible load on our health-care system.
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PREST: How to work and be a parent in a global pandemic

PREST: How to work and be a parent in a global pandemic

Employees around the world adjusting to a new work-from-home COVID-19 reality
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Opinion: People are panic buying guns, ammo in B.C. in fear of Emergencies Act

Opinion: People are panic buying guns, ammo in B.C. in fear of Emergencies Act

Walking into a big-box outdoors store on a Wednesday afternoon is typically a fairly mellow affair, but this week was a different story. At least in the guns and ammunition department.
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Les Leyne: Governments respond to crisis with steady escalation

Les Leyne: Governments respond to crisis with steady escalation

At most of the decision points so far in the crisis, governments started in the relatively moderate range of options. Every time they did that, they adjusted to the extreme level quite quickly.
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New Westminster Record is committed to serving the needs of our community

New Westminster Record is committed to serving the needs of our community

To our readers, advertisers, sponsors and community members: I’m writing this column to let you know that everyone at the New Westminster Record is aware of the mounting challenges that the current COVID-19 pandemic is creating for many of you.
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Letter: I'm tired of governments' 80% effort on COVID-19

Letter: I'm tired of governments' 80% effort on COVID-19

Editor: I am so unhappy with the government's 80% effort on Covid-19. Let us go 100% and starve this virus. Let us treat the next two months as one very long Sunday. No rent to pay or collect. No mortgage to pay or collect. Commercial or residential.
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Les Leyne: B.C. relying on Ottawa for rescue mission

Les Leyne: B.C. relying on Ottawa for rescue mission

Premier John Horgan was more interested Tuesday in pressing Ottawa for action on the economic response to the pandemic than showing his own hand.
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Les Leyne: In Denmark, they’re a little blunter about the pandemic

Les Leyne: In Denmark, they’re a little blunter about the pandemic

Former B.C. reporter Shane Woodford is ahead of the story. Eight hours ahead, in time zones, since he lives in Denmark. And Denmark looks to be a few days ahead of Canada in terms of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response to it.
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Mario's Quarantine Diary Day 2: Doing the right thing at the 25th hour

Mario's Quarantine Diary Day 2: Doing the right thing at the 25th hour

Tri-City News journalist Mario Bartel's self-quarantine with his wife and young son after they returned from a U.S. trip continues, with a look back to the final moments of freedom
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People of Vancouver, stop gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic

People of Vancouver, stop gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic

Breweries, patios were pumping this past weekend despite coronavirus concerns
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