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Letters: Calling on Creekers to address fire danger

Letters: Calling on Creekers to address fire danger

'It is time for action, education, and most importantly, teamwork to do our best to protect lives, properties, and our beloved and stressed forests.'
Rob Shaw: B.C. awaits Ottawa's move to keep violent offenders in jail instead of on bail

Rob Shaw: B.C. awaits Ottawa's move to keep violent offenders in jail instead of on bail

Provinces pleading with the federal government to keep potentially violent offenders off the streets as they face trials
Letters: To build and assume the water will be there is naive

Letters: To build and assume the water will be there is naive

'Show me the water first, be it Dusty Road or any other possibility, but do not issue scads of building permits without the assurance that it will definitely be there.'
Opinion: The value of volunteering on the Coast

Opinion: The value of volunteering on the Coast

The benefits are many – to you and your community
Letter: Petition launched against Connor Park hall location

Letter: Petition launched against Connor Park hall location

'The SCRD has thrown out all the effort and fundraising that has happened in the last 10 years for a hall replacement at Coopers Green that has been the social hub for the last 110 years. Sixty-four per cent of respondents to the SCRD survey wanted a hall at Coopers Green.'
Letters: Part of the community’s soul at stake with Stonehurst

Letters: Part of the community’s soul at stake with Stonehurst

'Besides losing the beautiful old Acacia trees on site – trees the town has sworn to protect – Stonehurst represents one of the underpinnings of our unique “Five Corners” intersection in the lower village.'
Comment: It's time to get serious about the opioid epidemic

Comment: It's time to get serious about the opioid epidemic

Mother of a 16-year-old who died of a toxic mix of lethal drugs deplores lack of B.C. government action on recommendations from inquest into her son’s death.
Les Leyne: The travails of 'John from Langford'

Les Leyne: The travails of 'John from Langford'

John Horgan’s private career still public, caught in political and environmental crossfire
Les Leyne: Dix takes steps to stop flow of diabetes drug to U.S.

Les Leyne: Dix takes steps to stop flow of diabetes drug to U.S.

Three weeks after blowing the whistle on the scheme, Health Minister Adrian Dix signed a ministerial order that curbs the online sale of Ozempic to non-Canadians.
James Steidle: Current B.C. reforestation is ‘19th century quack medicine’

James Steidle: Current B.C. reforestation is ‘19th century quack medicine’

Replanting pine monocrops and spraying and brushing the fire-resistant deciduous is the equivalent of draining a patient of blood to cure an infection.
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