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What began in the West End has encompassed the Lower Mainland, including the Tri-Cities — and this letter writer thinks the cheer is misplaced.

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Sun’s out, dumb-dumbs out. I could be polite about this, but I don’t want to be. Civic politicians begged and pleaded with people to ignore the sunshine and stay away from parks this long weekend. Stick with the essentials only, they said.

Editor: I read with interest recent article in your esteemed paper (Time for smokers to butt out is now, or risk ventilator shortage: researcher).

I’ve been tearing up a lot lately. That’s not a big surprise because despite my acerbic writing style, I’m kind of a big mush ball.

Editor: While at work one day in 2013, I got a call that no one every wants to hear - you dad had a catastrophic stroke, he is in the emergency department at Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops (I live in Burnaby).

Editor: To the wonderful staff, administrators, Fraser Health, donors, conceptualizers, volunteers of the Palliative Care Unit, Burnaby Hospital: Re: Patient Roshan Virani, who passed away at your unit: On behalf of the extended Virani family, this i

A few Burnaby landlords are feeling stung amid the COVID-19 crisis.

From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have regularly seen people choose to wear a variety of masks, from medical masks to cloth face coverings, in grocery stores and parks, on buses and sidewalks.