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Letter: Protect our trees – leave the leaves

Letter: Protect our trees – leave the leaves

Editor: I wish to make a plea for trees in our parks and streets. In the hotter days of summer, it is almost unbearable on cement parking lots and vast playing fields without trees to bring their cooling shade.
Letter: Perplexing phone booth charges

Letter: Perplexing phone booth charges

Letter: Sunshine Coast developments need to B.Y.O.W. – bring your own water

Letter: Sunshine Coast developments need to B.Y.O.W. – bring your own water

'As it is blatantly unethical to continue unbridled development while infrastructure remains so deficient, let’s attach a B.Y.O.W(ater) requirement to all building permits issued until 2035 when – according to the Site B reservoir proposal – we will have adequate water.'
Rob Shaw: Trudeau cabinet shuffle raises questions about reforms sought by Eby

Rob Shaw: Trudeau cabinet shuffle raises questions about reforms sought by Eby

Many ministers moved out of portfolios of importance to the province
Comment: Platitudes: The invisible enemy of health reform

Comment: Platitudes: The invisible enemy of health reform

Provincial governments seem unwilling or unable to move beyond platitudes to commit to a plan to reform primary health and fix our health system.
Letters: Reservoir questions remain

Letters: Reservoir questions remain

Comment: B.C. should fight to keep the RCMP

Comment: B.C. should fight to keep the RCMP

Provincial and community leaders better start sharpening their pencils to calculate adverse economics of such a move, and separate fact from fiction.
Baldrey: Changes to Police Act will help avert another Surrey debacle

Baldrey: Changes to Police Act will help avert another Surrey debacle

The BC NDP wants to make sure no one ends up in this mess again. Here's how.
Opinion: Canadians singing a different tune about COVID-19 health measures after pandemic’s peak

Opinion: Canadians singing a different tune about COVID-19 health measures after pandemic’s peak

Going into a vastly different summer than three years ago, Canadians appear to have turned the page on the pandemic, writes Mario Canseco.
Monique Keiran: 'Singing' fish drowned out by human-made ocean noise

Monique Keiran: 'Singing' fish drowned out by human-made ocean noise

Just as all the noise humans make is making it harder for whales to hear each other and their own sonar under the waves, fish are struggling to hear over our racket
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