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Rob Shaw: B.C.’s long-awaited doctor pay model plan leaves patients waiting for results

Rob Shaw: B.C.’s long-awaited doctor pay model plan leaves patients waiting for results

Health Minister Adrian Dix’s new plan to fix the family doctor system is as expensive as it is ambitious.
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Letter: Tax the corporations that are profiting while we suffer

Letter: Tax the corporations that are profiting while we suffer

Tired of being a pawn in the corporate game of winner take all? Then ask Trudeau to introduce a Windfall Profits Tax.
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Survey: Pierre Poilievre factor looms large in the realignment of Canada’s political map

Survey: Pierre Poilievre factor looms large in the realignment of Canada’s political map

Among Canadian decided voters, the Conservatives are in first place with 35 per cent, followed by the Liberals with 31 per cent.
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Letter: Pedestrians, you need to keep yourselves safe

Letter: Pedestrians, you need to keep yourselves safe

If you get into a duel with a car, guess who's going to win?
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Letter: Taxing Big Oil is the only fair option for Canadians

Letter: Taxing Big Oil is the only fair option for Canadians

Trudeau claims to be a climate leader, so he needs to start acting like one.
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Keith Baldrey: Security costs sink provincial support for hosting another Olympics

Keith Baldrey: Security costs sink provincial support for hosting another Olympics

BC NDP government wary after price tag for keeping 2010 Games safe ballooned from $175 million to nearly $1 billion.
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Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

Jack Knox: Halloween an excuse masquerading as a night for kids

First, adults decided to use the occasion to dress up as Sexy Whatevers and party in a way that caused them to lose their inhibitions/undergarments/stomach contents. Then, worse, it became an excuse to show up for work in a moose suit
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Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Jack Knox: Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation

Those who talk loudly on cellphones in public places are acting as though others are A) invisible, B) deaf, or C) insignificant, so why not make eye contact, laugh at their jokes and add your own two cents’ worth?
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Les Leyne: Why B.C. government bailed on backing 2030 Olympics bid

Les Leyne: Why B.C. government bailed on backing 2030 Olympics bid

The B.C. government has resisted the temptation of trying to replicate an Expo 86 economic bounce
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Opinion: Brace yourself for post-election budget sticker shock, fellow voters

Opinion: Brace yourself for post-election budget sticker shock, fellow voters

"For the mayors and councils, the shoes are about to drop. Budget time is nigh."
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