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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.
Bob Kronbauer: There's a good reason why a BMW alarm is going off on your ferry

Bob Kronbauer: There's a good reason why a BMW alarm is going off on your ferry

There's an easy way to prevent it from happening
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.
Letters: Requiring rainwater catchment cheaper than endless studies

Letters: Requiring rainwater catchment cheaper than endless studies

'Why not make it a condition of every new building permit issued that the property must include a rainwater collection system...size dependent on the size of the property?'
Letters: We need to prepare for the next time the rain doesn’t come

Letters: We need to prepare for the next time the rain doesn’t come

'The rains have arrived but there is more to do to reduce the risk of another Stage 4 season.'
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
Letters: Newly elected have water promise to keep

Letters: Newly elected have water promise to keep

'With great expectations we awaited the rain that would soak the soil and fill the lakes that our municipal government has chosen to drain for our water system. AND THE RAIN GODS LAUGHED.'
Letter: We might not like Highway 101, but that doesn't mean we should risk others' lives

Letter: We might not like Highway 101, but that doesn't mean we should risk others' lives

'Please wake up people and drive to the conditions of the road. None of us are happy with our highway but we have to live with it…hopefully not to die on it because of some careless person!'
Letters: Do away with lawn watering on the Coast and other water suggestions

Letters: Do away with lawn watering on the Coast and other water suggestions

'The biggest excuse I’ve heard to keep lawn watering is if we have a fire there is less chance that my house will burn down. Do I really have to point out that if we are at the stage where we are at risk for fires, we are already usually on stage 3 and not allowed to water lawns anyways?'
Letters: What about desalination for the Sunshine Coast?

Letters: What about desalination for the Sunshine Coast?

'We have an ocean, why don’t we build a desalination plant? If it’s good enough for Australia, China, Chile, Algeria, India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Malta, Maldives, Morocco, Mexico, and a host of other nations, why not here? Maybe there are federal grants?'