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Opinion: B.C. MLAs show rare civility with UNDRIP passage

Opinion: B.C. MLAs show rare civility with UNDRIP passage

Just before the last question period of the fall sitting of the legislature began, Speaker Darryl Plecas offered an observation.
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Letter: Writer blinded by blatant disdain for 'church folk'

Letter: Writer blinded by blatant disdain for 'church folk'

Writer seems so blinded by his disdain for church folk that he forgets that families who choose independent or private schools are taxpayers, too.
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Letter: Criticizing Trans Mountain activists for being white is unfair

Letter: Criticizing Trans Mountain activists for being white is unfair

Editor: Re: These Burnaby Trans Mountain opponents look white and privileged , NOW Letters As much as I agree with proceeding with the pipeline, if it truly benefits the population and the society of our country - which is to be seen still - I must d
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Opinion: 68 Burnaby idiots have damaged gas lines. Just stop it

Opinion: 68 Burnaby idiots have damaged gas lines. Just stop it

FortisBC sent me an interesting and depressing stat this morning. The company is hosting a demonstration on the proper way to dig around natural gas lines, but I can’t make it.
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Opinion: TransLink releases plan to deal with snow. Will it do any good?

Opinion: TransLink releases plan to deal with snow. Will it do any good?

Look, when it snows in Metro Vancouver I am just as freaked out as the next person. The idea of a snowmageddon (snowpocalypse?) keeps me awake at night, probably because I live on Burnaby Mountain.
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Letter: Dear Justin: You can still keep your electoral reform promise

Letter: Dear Justin: You can still keep your electoral reform promise

Editor: An open letter to Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada: When your government retreated from its promise of electoral reform in time for the 2019 election, you referred to a lack of consensus, implying that consultations would continue.
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Letter: Burnaby council discriminating against private school students

Letter: Burnaby council discriminating against private school students

Editor: Re: Burnaby private schools excluded from city’s bursary program , NOW News I understand that council plans to give city bursaries only to public school students.
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Opinion: This Burnaby mall’s parking garage is like Game of Thrones

Opinion: This Burnaby mall’s parking garage is like Game of Thrones

In hindsight, driving to Metropolis at Metrotown to check out Black Friday sales was a terrible decision. I should have taken transit - it’s an easy SkyTrain ride.
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Opinion: How many more have to die on Burnaby roads before changes come?

Opinion: How many more have to die on Burnaby roads before changes come?

When I heard a driver had died on Boundary Road Saturday morning, the location sounded pretty familiar. I did a little research and, yup, another driver – of a motorcycle - had died in virtually the same spot back in August.
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Trudeau needs to make a play now in the game of What Do You Do?

Trudeau needs to make a play now in the game of What Do You Do?

The game is called: What Do You Do? What Do You Do when your largest trading partner says no and your second-largest says yes? What Do You Do when one of your intelligence agencies says sure and another one says surely not? What Do You Do when the ge
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