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Letter: More than ‘commercial' STRs, we’re your neighbours

Letter: More than ‘commercial' STRs, we’re your neighbours

'Yes, we do rent our house out to tourists. But we also host your family when they visit the Coast, but don’t want to stay at hotel. We let our place out to Locum Obstetricians that deliver new family members. We also rent to companies that bring workers to build new houses for our community and new professionals that now work here.'
Opinion: How much bark and bite is left in this Tory leadership underdog?

Opinion: How much bark and bite is left in this Tory leadership underdog?

“I have been an underdog all my life,” Jean Charest says.
Opinion: A Mother’s Day poem

Opinion: A Mother’s Day poem

In honour of the mothers who gave up their right to be a mother so that another woman could be a mother.
Jack Knox: It's a mother of a job, but sign me up

Jack Knox: It's a mother of a job, but sign me up

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! We wish you never-ending ­appreciation and recognition by children who always help out around the house, seldom give you an eye-roll and are never found passed out drunk face down in the driveway.
Letters: Gas shouldn’t be higher on the Sunshine Coast than in the Lower Mainland

Letters: Gas shouldn’t be higher on the Sunshine Coast than in the Lower Mainland

Les Leyne: B.C. to guard mental health rights as it studies crime

Les Leyne: B.C. to guard mental health rights as it studies crime

An amendment to the Mental Health Act would provide new safeguards for the rights of involuntary patients.
Opinion: Cash makes comeback but credit and debit are king

Opinion: Cash makes comeback but credit and debit are king

Use of paper money has jumped 15 percentage points in the two years since the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, survey finds.
Les Leyne: Province to announce 'creative' approach to reining in repeat street criminals

Les Leyne: Province to announce 'creative' approach to reining in repeat street criminals

B.C. mayors have expressed concern about pattern of "catch and release" for repeat offenders
Jack Knox: He lives in Colwood; he had five large pizzas delivered from a pizzeria in Windsor, Ont.

Jack Knox: He lives in Colwood; he had five large pizzas delivered from a pizzeria in Windsor, Ont.

Pizzas were half-baked and frozen by Antonino's in Windsor, Ont., placed in shipping boxes and overnighted to Victoria.
Les Leyne: B.C. braces for huge influx of refugees from Ukraine

Les Leyne: B.C. braces for huge influx of refugees from Ukraine

The volunteers already working around the clock to ready for Ukrainian newcomers know it. The federal and provincial officials bracing for the work flow know it.