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Jack Knox: Victoria's Ukrainian Cultural Centre becomes a de facto refugee centre

Jack Knox: Victoria's Ukrainian Cultural Centre becomes a de facto refugee centre

Money from the Times Colonist Christmas Fund is helping groups that are helping Ukrainian refugees.
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Les Leyne: New museum will be a monument to Indigenous reconciliation

Les Leyne: New museum will be a monument to Indigenous reconciliation

If there’s one project where Victoria’s track record of arguing everything to death needs to stop, it’s this one.
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Opinion: Public health suffers when pro sports goes all in on gambling

Opinion: Public health suffers when pro sports goes all in on gambling

On this issue I am prepared to be called a prude, a fogey and a knuckle-dragger.
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Letter to the editor: Earth Day more essential than ever

Letter to the editor: Earth Day more essential than ever

Too many mainstream-news-media CEOs and senior editors remain unfazed by manmade global warming and its resultant extreme weather events.
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Letter to the editor: Visit the north before drafting prolific offenders report

Letter to the editor: Visit the north before drafting prolific offenders report

I believe it is extremely important that this small investigative group demonstrate good faith towards smaller northern communities and actually visit a number of communities that have been affected.
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Letter to the editor: Thanks for returning my purse

Letter to the editor: Thanks for returning my purse

Prince George woman grateful her purse was returned with her money, keys and ID still inside.
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Editorial: Prolific offenders low priority in Victoria

Editorial: Prolific offenders low priority in Victoria

David Eby's plan? Spend $50,000 to hire a retired Vancouver cop and a criminologist from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby to whip up a report in four months.
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Opinion: Canadians spending less time cooking as pandemic wanes

Opinion: Canadians spending less time cooking as pandemic wanes

Fewer people abiding by Canada’s Food Guide recommendation to “put away distractions like the TV or electronics” while eating: poll.
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Les Leyne: $25 billion spent, thousands of new hires, B.C.'s health care still falls short

Les Leyne: $25 billion spent, thousands of new hires, B.C.'s health care still falls short

B.C.'s health-care workforce has grown to 223,000 in 2022 from 184,000 in 2018.
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Opinion: Chidiac's praise for Peterson unjustified

Opinion: Chidiac's praise for Peterson unjustified

When Peterson’s work has been challenged, his supporters have engaged in attacks and harassment against critics
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