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Get on with STR bylaw

Get on with STR bylaw

Editor: Re: “Councillors eye short-term rental bylaw by year’s end,” April 16.
Workers can’t afford rent

Workers can’t afford rent

Editor: We are still looking for a place to live like countless others that have been squeezed out of their rental units.
One foul-up after another

One foul-up after another

Editor: Re: “VCH missed memo on staying local,” Editorial, April 16. John Gleeson doesn’t give Vancouver Coastal Health and the Ministry of Health enough credit.
A balance not a battle

A balance not a battle

Editor: Re: “Ice demand is there” by Kate Turner, Letters, April 16.
Take better care of beach

Take better care of beach

Editor: I am sad to report that gone are the days when one could walk Chaster Beach and Florence Bay Beach (the bay from Chaster Park to Camp Byng) along Ocean Beach Esplanade, Elphinstone, safely, without much worry of hazard and injury.
Good news about water?

Good news about water?

Editor: In an item in her Elphinstone newsletter titled “The Good News About Water,” Area E director Donna McMahon congratulated us for reducing our water usage by an unspecified percentage and saving “us all a big whack of money&rd
Logging others’ backyards

Logging others’ backyards

Editor: I’m following up on last week’s letter from Robert O’Neill, “Stand up for our forests,” where he outlines the huge role they play in carbon sequestering, helping to mitigate climate change.
Opinion: Naked MP story is about all of us, not him

Opinion: Naked MP story is about all of us, not him

The issue is not his gaffe. It is that someone thought it appropriate to screenshot him naked and leak that photo.
Canadians continue to find no shortage of disinformation, vitriol on social media, poll

Canadians continue to find no shortage of disinformation, vitriol on social media, poll

More than a quarter of Canadian social media users say they found racist content on their social media feed over the past year.
Opinion: 40 per cent of B.C.'s deficit just vanished

Opinion: 40 per cent of B.C.'s deficit just vanished