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Letters: Time for action on Airbnbs

Letters: Time for action on Airbnbs

Editor: Over the last few weeks, I have heard so many complaints about tourists. They are being blamed for everything. From using our water supply, to parking spaces. Even shortage of gas.
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Letters: Update us more often on usage

Letters: Update us more often on usage

Editor: The SCRD provides monthly emailed reports of their residential water usage to those in the regional district who have signed up for that notification. It’s an informative and helpful service.
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Letter: Mask mandate in B.C. schools not enough to keep everyone safe

Letter: Mask mandate in B.C. schools not enough to keep everyone safe

In an open letter to parents, the president of the BC Teachers' Federation urges parents of students (ages 12 and up) to get their child vaccinated.
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Liberal support among Canadian voters drops to 33%: poll

Liberal support among Canadian voters drops to 33%: poll

Liberal Party numbers remain high in Atlantic Canada and Quebec, but Ontario is now a toss-up.
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Majority of British Columbians happy with province’s name, flag

Majority of British Columbians happy with province’s name, flag

Only a small percentage of British Columbians agree with the idea of changing the name of the province to acknowledge its Indigenous heritage
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EDITORIAL: Wise to be wary of election polls

EDITORIAL: Wise to be wary of election polls

With Afghanistan falling, Delta rising and other trials and tribulations afflicting Canadians, the timing for a federal election couldn’t have been much worse.
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OPINION: Liberals’ majority hopes hang on B.C.

OPINION: Liberals’ majority hopes hang on B.C.

The “Election No One Wants” is sleepwalking through the dog days of summer and it remains far from clear whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gamble that an early vote will secure him a majority government will pay off.
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LETTER: Bike licensing tried, failed

LETTER: Bike licensing tried, failed

Editor: Re: “ ICBC for bicycles too ,” “ Highway needs ignored ,” Letters, Aug. 13. There was a call in the Aug. 13 Letters to the Editor to license bikes.
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LETTER: Governments ignore crisis

LETTER: Governments ignore crisis

Editor: We’re 30 years into comprehensive reporting by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the conclusions are not changing.
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LETTER: Travesty of democracy

LETTER: Travesty of democracy

Editor: I have only contempt for the provincial NDP under John Horgan. As of Monday, Aug. 23, 780 people have been arrested in the Fairy Creek area, blockading to save British Columbia’s last remnants of ancient forests.
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