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LETTERS: Assessments are unfair to seniors
Dear Editor An open letter to the Honourable Michael de Jong, B.C. Minister of Finance Dear Minister de Jong: Having received my assessment notice shortly before you announced the new threshold for the provincial homeowner grant being set at $1.
Jan 17, 2017 3:43 PM
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OPINION: Tackling the overdose crisis
In 2016, British Columbians faced the public health emergency that is the overdose crisis. As of Nov. 30, 755 people in our province died this year due to an overdose – 259 of those deaths occurring in the Fraser Health region.
Jan 13, 2017 9:19 AM
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LETTERS: We need a ‘least-risk’ plan for pipelines
Dear Editor Who would have guessed that a B.C. passenger ferry (Queen of the North) would go down at the entrance to Douglas Channel, due to human error.
Jan 13, 2017 9:09 AM
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LETTERS: Assessments stand to hurt B.C.’s seniors
Dear Editor The bureaucratic cowboys at B.C. Assessment have set the stage for civic and provincial authorities to dip deeper into the not-too-deep pockets of homeowners, especially seniors . While the B.C.
Jan 13, 2017 9:09 AM
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OUR VIEW: Political football has just been thrown
As news goes, it was hardly surprising. Premier Christy Clark’s announcement that the province has issued an environmental assessment certificate for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was a bit of a yawner.
Jan 13, 2017 9:07 AM
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OUR VIEW: Time to start ranting about poor kids
It was an easy prediction. We knew that Christy Clark was going to raise the homeowner’s grant ceiling – the only question was by how much.
Jan 10, 2017 3:21 PM
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LETTERS: Thanks for the help in aftermath of fire
Dear Editor: Friends and customers, thank you for your patience and support as we work toward being fully operational again.
Jan 9, 2017 12:06 PM
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OPINION: New page for B.C.'s education system
Coming soon to a vacant school field near you: portables, lots and lots of portables. While much attention has been paid to the $50 million that will hire more than 1,000 teachers as a result of the interim agreement between the B.C.
Jan 9, 2017 8:58 AM
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OUR VIEW: Ice rage – don’t let it destroy you
Who can blame them? Anyone who has felt that neck-wrenching, body-twisting pull of gravity as their feet shoot out from under them on an icy sidewalk knows the stages of ice-rage. First comes the self-blame. I should have seen that icy patch.
Jan 6, 2017 11:22 AM
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OPINION: Naloxone is the ‘new normal’
Any day above ground is a good day for an addict. Harsh but true. Where there is life, there is hope.
Jan 6, 2017 11:21 AM
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