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Les Leyne: Health care numbers game: All that, for one per cent

Les Leyne: Health care numbers game: All that, for one per cent

Divided by 10 provinces and the territories, and then divided again by 10 years, it amounts in B.C. to a few hundred million dollars a year.
Letter: A valuable lesson in keeping your parking receipt

Letter: A valuable lesson in keeping your parking receipt

'How many people have unknowingly paid a $70 ticket, not realizing that they did not overstay, but that the machine was offline?'
Les Leyne: B.C. Liberals now stressing addiction treatment

Les Leyne: B.C. Liberals now stressing addiction treatment

After pulling together during the pandemic and opioid overdose emergencies, B.C. Liberals have been trying to differentiate themselves from the NDP since the 2020 election
Opinion: For better or worse, stories create histories not easily rewritten

Opinion: For better or worse, stories create histories not easily rewritten

In listening to the audiobook of Spare , the autobiography by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, I can hear in his narration a certain fear and loathing of the paparazzi and tabloid editors, the “paps” and the “tabs.
Letter: Don’t pave over Rainbow Park’s ‘legendary vibe’

Letter: Don’t pave over Rainbow Park’s ‘legendary vibe’

"We should be prioritizing green space, swimming, and safety at the waterfront, not a transportation corridor or 'promenade.'"
Les Leyne: B.C.'s windfall surplus earmarked for 'storm' ahead

Les Leyne: B.C.'s windfall surplus earmarked for 'storm' ahead

The agenda-setting speech explicitly stated that the $5.7 billion surplus reported last November is a one-off.
Museum Musings: Gassing up in Whistler

Museum Musings: Gassing up in Whistler

For most people, the main reason to visit Whistler’s gas stations is for, well, the gas. There was a time, however, when the resort’s gas stations offered many much-needed services beyond that to the growing community.
Opinion: B.C. throne speech indicates plan to spend – missing is a plan for growth

Opinion: B.C. throne speech indicates plan to spend – missing is a plan for growth

Every new leader has to honour the predecessor yet chart a different course. I’ve yet to hear one say he/she will do exactly what the last woman/man did, even if in power there is a nice crutch to lean on.
Rob Shaw: Eby hit snooze on his momentum with uneventful throne speech

Rob Shaw: Eby hit snooze on his momentum with uneventful throne speech

Premier David Eby says he has no shortage of ideas on how to tackle the biggest crises of our time – from the strain on the health-care system, to rising crime on B.C.
Letter: Some advice for the underhoused trying to live the Whistler dream—stick with it

Letter: Some advice for the underhoused trying to live the Whistler dream—stick with it

"The town certainly needs and appreciates you, whether you feel that or not."