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Comment: We need the truth as we seek reconciliation

Comment: We need the truth as we seek reconciliation

The ongoing allegation that former residential schools may be sites of multiple secret burials is not consistent with evidence I heard over many weeks covering the Blackwater trial.
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Adrian Raeside cartoon: Nanaimo restricts use of natural gas

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Nanaimo restricts use of natural gas

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Citizen poll results: Are you prepared to leave your home with little to no notice due to an emergency?

Citizen poll results: Are you prepared to leave your home with little to no notice due to an emergency?

There were 694 votes cast when the poll was on the website from Aug. 19 to Sept. 1.
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Opinion: Selective memories and revisionist histories trivialize our colonial past

Opinion: Selective memories and revisionist histories trivialize our colonial past

Children were abused if not killed in horrendous ways. Your examples of a few good deeds attempts to dismantle those truths.
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Adrian Raeside cartoon: Students hunting for a place to live

Adrian Raeside cartoon: Students hunting for a place to live

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Opinion: City council, Citizen both need to be better

Opinion: City council, Citizen both need to be better

I firmly believe that a successful democracy must have an enlightened, well-informed electorate as its basis. We don’t have that.
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Opinion: Bishop O’Grady helped Indigenous students

Opinion: Bishop O’Grady helped Indigenous students

A young Indigenous woman who became a friend of mine, from the Williams Lake area, attended the high school named Prince George College since the public schools at that time did not accept Indigenous students.
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Rob Shaw: With NDP Premier David Eby's blessing, ministerial staff now make more than an MLA

Rob Shaw: With NDP Premier David Eby's blessing, ministerial staff now make more than an MLA

Political staff to NDP ministers receive larger raises than teachers, nurses and public sector
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Opinion: 'Six out of nine of our city leaders are not representing me'

Opinion: 'Six out of nine of our city leaders are not representing me'

The three city leaders that voted to keep public notices in the paper are Mayor Simon Yu and Councillors Trudy Klassen and Brian Skakun.
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Carson Binda: Seriously, something needs to be done about gas taxes

Carson Binda: Seriously, something needs to be done about gas taxes

Trying to tax away a global problem isn't working
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