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Comment: B.C. contradicts itself with tobacco investment

Comment: B.C. contradicts itself with tobacco investment

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in British Columbia, causing up to 6,000 deaths in the province each year.
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Letters: Another parking lot in Richmond hard to navigate due to snow

Letters: Another parking lot in Richmond hard to navigate due to snow

Snow plow left little room to navigate in front of buildings, letter writer explains.
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Monique Keiran: Global climate shifts are redefining winter almost everywhere

Monique Keiran: Global climate shifts are redefining winter almost everywhere

The season is acquiring a looser set of characteristic features, harder to specify, more variable and more unpredictable.
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Trevor Hancock: Vaping products should be subject to same marketing ban as tobacco

Trevor Hancock: Vaping products should be subject to same marketing ban as tobacco

Canada should ban all advertising, marketing, promotion and sponsorship involving vaping companies to avoid hooking a new generation of smokers
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Geoff Johnson: How to develop the reading brain in a digital world

Geoff Johnson: How to develop the reading brain in a digital world

‘Deep reading,’ the process of reading attentively and carefully as opposed to skimming or scrolling a screen, helps kids develop capacity for critical thinking, empathy and reflection
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Letters: Snow plow messes up sidewalk maintained by Richmond strata

Letters: Snow plow messes up sidewalk maintained by Richmond strata

A letter writer was frustrated when snow plows dumped more snow onto their sidewalk after the strata had already shovelled it.
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Column: Smartphone ban unlikely to succeed in schools

Column: Smartphone ban unlikely to succeed in schools

The BC United party proposed a cellphone ban for K-12 classrooms.
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Adrian Raeside cartoon: A pet makes its views known at a custody hearing

Adrian Raeside cartoon: A pet makes its views known at a custody hearing

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Opinion: NDP lack credibility on electrification

Opinion:  NDP lack credibility on electrification

As we import electricity from our neighbours, we can be thankful that BC Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell had the foresight in 2010 to announce Site C
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Letters: Richmond medical office needs to plow parking lot

Letters: Richmond medical office needs to plow parking lot

Richmond News reader is irked a medical building was difficult to navigate even after the snowstorm.
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