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Prolonged pandemic casts outsized shadow over Canadian politics

Prolonged pandemic casts outsized shadow over Canadian politics

Handling of COVID-19 has determined political fortunes of PM and premiers from coast to coast.
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Opinion: Post-election road looks rockier for prime minister

Opinion: Post-election road looks rockier for prime minister

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Politicians failing to address cellphone cost discontent in Canada

Politicians failing to address cellphone cost discontent in Canada

70% of the province’s mobile phone users said their plan is “very expensive” or “moderately expensive,” poll finds.
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Editorial: An election that matters

Editorial: An election that matters

For some of you, it’s already over. Elections Canada reported this week that an estimated 22,422 electors in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country had voted at the advance polls between Sept. 10 and 13.
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Opinion: Election could hinge on these B.C. ridings

Opinion: Election could hinge on these B.C. ridings

Predicting an election outcome is a risky endeavour at best, but a somewhat safer exercise is focusing on the specific ridings that may determine which party forms government after the Sept. 20 vote. In B.C.
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Letters: Staff shortage hits home

Letters: Staff shortage hits home

Editor: Have you recently tried going out for a beer or a dinner at one of our local restaurants and found it to be closed? Or maybe it was open, but with reduced hours? It appears that we on the Coast have a shortage of restaurant staff and after di
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Letters: Treated like children

Letters: Treated like children

Editor: I agree with Steve Bailey about the cancellation of the Sept. 1 in-person all-candidates meeting at High Beam Dreams (“Candidates disappointing,” Letters, Sept. 10).
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Letters: Charter also sets limits

Letters: Charter also sets limits

Editor: The paid advertisement on page 13 last week is headed up “Your Rights and Freedoms” and purports to give us the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Letters: Risk and inconvenience

Letters: Risk and inconvenience

Editor: Reading Lawrence Dolha’s letter (“Had COVID, don’t want jab,” Sept. 10) has made me rethink my position on this whole vaccination business. At first blush, the fact that B.C.
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Letters: Shades of the Godfather

Letters: Shades of the Godfather

Editor: In reading the Sept. 3 letter “Deluded like Don Quixote,” I had no problem agreeing with the description of anti-vaxxers as delusional.
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