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Letter to the editor: Time for a new word

Letter to the editor: Time for a new word

It seems time that an appropriate word is commonly used to herald the arrival of this special windy weather.
Editorial: Local Olympians have earned your support

Editorial: Local Olympians have earned your support

They have been chosen as Canada’s best hope to medal in their respective sports.
Editorial: Tax talk signals campaign start

Editorial: Tax talk signals campaign start

Brace for an increase of about five per cent in your city tax bill this summer. City council will begin budget talks Monday with a proposed 6.
Opinion: Being wrong being optimistic

Opinion: Being wrong being optimistic

I thought our various levels of government would realize their role is not to rule us.
Editorial: Where were you, voters?

Editorial: Where were you, voters?

Milton Mahoney needed just 293 votes to defeat four other candidates.
Letter to the editor: Downtown needs fixing

Letter to the editor: Downtown needs fixing

Best of luck to the few businesses that are struggling to make a living in that area.
B.C.’s economic recovery hinges upon massive, sustained infrastructure investment: IUOE 115

B.C.’s economic recovery hinges upon massive, sustained infrastructure investment: IUOE 115

Brian Cochrane, business manager of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115, shares his views on rebuilding B.C.’s economy
Opinion: Taxing the unvaxxed isn’t right

Opinion: Taxing the unvaxxed isn’t right

What would come next? Extra taxes on patients who present to hospitals with lung cancer if they smoke? Or taxes on the overweight with heart disease?
Letter to the editor: Tutu’s dangerous flaws

Letter to the editor: Tutu’s dangerous flaws

While his campaign against discrimination in South Africa was laudable, much of the media glossed over a dark aspect of Tutu’s legacy: his anti-Israel agenda.
Opinion: Bishop Tutu's legacy of peace

Opinion: Bishop Tutu's legacy of peace

Looking back on numerous recordings of Bishop Tutu’s speeches and interviews, it is difficult to find anything hostile, violent, prejudicial or discriminatory in any of his words, even when he challenged people and institutions.