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Will pandemic leave lasting mark on how B.C. workers carry out their jobs?

Will pandemic leave lasting mark on how B.C. workers carry out their jobs?

A new survey shows companies in the post-pandemic world will need to find the right balance between the workplace of the past and the ability of employees to carry on with their duties from home at least some of the time.
Editorial: A milestone in poverty reduction

Editorial: A milestone in poverty reduction

There was a time when many children in B.C. would eagerly await the 19th of the month. It was the day the Family Allowance cheque would arrive in the mail.
Opinion: Protecting our miniature old growth

Opinion: Protecting our miniature old growth

Small fragile life on the Sunshine Coast needs our help too
Shot went ‘smooth as silk’

Shot went ‘smooth as silk’

Editor: Well, I had my shot this week and I must say that it went as smooth as silk – “as smooth as silk.
Dix fails seniors again

Dix fails seniors again

Editor: It defies belief that for a full year, Health Minister Adrian Dix did nothing to ensure that the people of British Columbia would have an efficient, reliable vaccination booking system.
Respond to housing crisis

Respond to housing crisis

Editor: When is the municipality going to take the housing crisis seriously? My husband and I are one of the many couples that have been recently evicted to make way for the landlord to repossess the property.
Reasons not to return

Reasons not to return

Editor: Re: “B.C. man shares ordeal of trying to return home from Mexico,” coastreporter.net, March 12.
Tax moderation is a virtue

Tax moderation is a virtue

Editor: These are matters that should be in the forefront of tax considerations by municipal councillors and regional district directors in these insecure times. Put people before projects. Society is in the throes of a pandemic.
101 unsafe for cyclists

101 unsafe for cyclists

Editor: This letter was sent to Transportation Minister Rob Fleming and MLA Nicholas Simons. The first year of COVID-19, 2020, saw bicycle sales (regular and e-bikes) in record numbers here on the Sunshine Coast.
Risks outweigh freedoms

Risks outweigh freedoms

Editor: The letter from Garfield Pennington (“Real kid stuff,” March 12) evoked wonderful memories of my own childhood and the freedom children of that era (the ’40s and ’50s) had to roam freely around their neighbourhoods in