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LETTER: If you really want people to bike to work, make it easier

LETTER: If you really want people to bike to work, make it easier

Dear editor : Re: Blurred Lines, May 24 editorial viewpoint on Bike to Work Week. Biking to work is great. I do it once a week from upper Lynn Valley to Burnaby. Some do it daily year-round, which is amazing. It could be much better though.
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Letter: New recycling depot is the best bang for New West's bucks

Letter: New recycling depot is the best bang for New West's bucks

Editor: Re: I’m not buying it will be easy getting to the new recycling depot , Record Letters, May 19 Like many other residents of this region, I’m sure, I am often irritated by the duplication of services across our many, small municipalities and t
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Here’s my ultra-secret sausage and fennel pasta recipe. You're welcome

Here’s my ultra-secret sausage and fennel pasta recipe. You're welcome

As a cookbook author and culinary instructor, I write a lot of recipes. Probably the most favourite pasta recipe of the masses would by my Sausage & Fennel Pasta. This recipe is in my most recent "best of" cookbook, called "The Best In Your Kitchen".
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Parents are often their kids' own, worst social media enemies

Parents are often their kids' own, worst social media enemies

When I’m reviewing candidates for hire, one of the first things I do when I’m interested in bringing someone in for an interview is scour social media.
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Letter: When I learned the truth of the climate crisis, I cried

Letter: When I learned the truth of the climate crisis, I cried

Editor: I am a 24-year-old graduate student and when I found out the truth about the climate crisis, I cried. I cried to know that we have 10 years to cut our carbon emissions in half or we would be irreversibly on track for mass extinction.
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The roots of lacrosse run deep in New Westminster

The roots of lacrosse run deep in New Westminster

There are many places in New Westminster where you can readily imagine the current surrounding scene as it was many decades ago.
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Letter: Too much debt involved in New West pool project

Letter: Too much debt involved in New West pool project

Editor: Re: New Canada Games Pool a 'financial nightmare for New West’, Record Letters, March 27 There is information in the letter that may not be known and if known would have an influence on borrowing money to pay for a new Canada Games Pool.
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It's time to turn down the ear-splitting volume a bit in bars

It's time to turn down the ear-splitting volume a bit in bars

The B.C. government has made some good strides when it comes to improving working conditions for restaurant and bar servers.
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Horgan knows he can't win Trans Mountain court battle, but is still doing it

Horgan knows he can't win Trans Mountain court battle, but is still doing it

Nobody should be surprised that Attorney-General David Eby was quick to declare the B.C. government will appeal the decisive court ruling on who controls the flow of oil between provinces.
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Opposing change based on ‘tradition’ isn’t enough. Just ask ‘Black Peter’

Opposing change based on ‘tradition’ isn’t enough. Just ask ‘Black Peter’

The past few weeks have been turbulent in New Westminster, but in a good way. Sure, the debate about the removal of the Judge Begbie statue has brought out some racist trolls, but there has also been some thoughtful debate about the issue.
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