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A child will remember

A child will remember

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Needless emissions, harmful impacts

Needless emissions, harmful impacts

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Bad neighbour in making

Bad neighbour in making

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Rental crisis a longstanding problem

Rental crisis a longstanding problem

Last week’s editorial by John Gleeson about the lack of affordable rentals on the Coast was, I suspect, eye-opening to many citizens on the Sunshine Coast although it should not be.
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Fastball owed another inning

Fastball owed another inning

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No trickle-down effect

No trickle-down effect

Editor : Trickle-down housing, whereby a buyer of a $700,000 house will purportedly eventually free up a low-cost rental, is as much of a fantasy as trickle-down economics. The results are the same: the rich get richer, and everyone else gets poorer.
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Absence of logic

Absence of logic

Editor: The editorial in the May 11 edition (“Rent gouging key factor in alarming stats”) is laughable in its total absence of logic.
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Supply is the problem

Supply is the problem

Editor: So, Sechelt is the fourth most unaffordable community in Canada, driven by a shortage of low-cost rental accommodation. Not a surprise – no one has repealed the law of supply and demand.
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Hackett ban ridiculous

Hackett ban ridiculous

Editor: When I began my teaching career here on the Coast in 1970, the only sports for kids happened in the elementary and high schools – and baseball at Hackett Park.
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Water from where?

Water from where?

Editor: I live in the Selma Park/Davis Bay area, and I was wondering where these new 80-plus homes that are being built in our area are going to get “their” water.
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