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Editorial: BC NDP all hot air on 2030 gas ban plan

Editorial: BC NDP all hot air on 2030 gas ban plan

During a housing crisis for availability and affordability, the BC government is offering a plan to make new homes more expensive to build and live in.
Comment: Feeding addicts what they crave is no solution

Comment: Feeding addicts what they crave is no solution

The suggestion that expanding access to hydromorphone by making it available without prescription will do nothing to reduce toxic fentanyl overdoses.
Letter: Thank you to Whistler health-care providers

Letter: Thank you to Whistler health-care providers

'There can never be a time when the collective appreciation to our front-line medical care providers is undeserved'
Range Rover: Bad Ragaz, a spa to end all spas

Range Rover: Bad Ragaz, a spa to end all spas

'On a frosty autumn in 1242, afield on a bird hunt, monks from the Benedictine abbey at Pfäfers, Switzerland, were piqued by a mist rising from a narrow gorge along the Tamina River'
Trevor Hancock: The fossil-fuel industry is the new tobacco

Trevor Hancock: The fossil-fuel industry is the new tobacco

Not only does it disregard the wellbeing of people and the planet in its pursuit of profit, it uses many of the same tactics — even consultants — as the tobacco industry
Geoff Johnson: Move to ditch SATS raises concerns about relying on school transcripts

Geoff Johnson: Move to ditch SATS raises concerns about relying on school transcripts

The question left hanging is whether the transcripts from high school A are equivalent to those from high school B
David Sovka: Physical violence and other birthday traditions

David Sovka: Physical violence and other birthday traditions

In Spain, they tug hard on your ear once for every year you’ve lived. In the 1970s Canada, they banged your bum on the ground, once for every year, and fed you cake containing choking hazards
Opinion: Powder to the peeps

Opinion: Powder to the peeps

'Four good runs in five hours is not good value for anybody'
Greg Perry cartoon: ER wait times are getting pretty deadly

Greg Perry cartoon: ER wait times are getting pretty deadly

Opinion: If you don’t advocate for yourself, who will?

Opinion: If you don’t advocate for yourself, who will?

'There’s a very simple reason NIMBYs get a bad rap: their tactics work'