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Range Rover: Stoopid ’R Us

Range Rover: Stoopid ’R Us

'Stupidity—defined as behaviour that shows a lack of good sense or judgment—can be a momentary or lifelong affliction'
Comment: B.C. needs team-based health-care solutions

Comment: B.C. needs team-based health-care solutions

Outpatient health care requires a major redesign where health care professionals practice medicine more effectively and efficiently, in teams.
Charla Huber: Israel-Hamas war leads to a phone call with a childhood friend

Charla Huber: Israel-Hamas war leads to a phone call with a childhood friend

When tragic things occur in the world, it’s hard to know what to say
David Sovka: How the Celts kicked off trick-or-treating and other Halloween stuff explained

David Sovka: How the Celts kicked off trick-or-treating and other Halloween stuff explained

One theory is that modern trick-or-treating has its origins in a Celtic tradition of leaving food out to appease spirits. Eventually, people began to dress like the spirits, at least the ones that looked like hobos, Dracula and slutty nurses
Trevor Hancock: We need to get our ecological footprint down to one planet

Trevor Hancock: We need to get our ecological footprint down to one planet

Canada’s ecological footprint, at around five planets, is one of the highest in the world.
Geoff Johnson: Ontario education minister's back to basics focus is all about politics

Geoff Johnson: Ontario education minister's back to basics focus is all about politics

Stephen Lecce has never actually held a job anywhere in the public education system, which, according to him, is now need of a “transformational” overhaul
Opinion: Family is not to be taken for granted

Opinion: Family is not to be taken for granted

Being related to someone should fill us with responsibility, not entitlement
Les Leyne: Greens' views on 'decommodifying' housing may have quiet NDP support

Les Leyne: Greens' views on 'decommodifying' housing may have quiet NDP support

B.C.’s two Green MLAs’ frank thoughts on housing go a lot further than the government’s views. But it feels like some New Democrats would quietly agree with them, and are only constrained by the backlash
Letter: Grizzlies and elementary schools don’t mix

Letter: Grizzlies and elementary schools don’t mix

'However low the risk may be, it isn’t zero'
John Ducker: Sometimes our road symbols make no sense

John Ducker: Sometimes our road symbols make no sense

Roadway markers are the bedrock of traffic engineering systems