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Opinion: Why rural Canadians need public transit just as urgently as suburbanites

Opinion: Why rural Canadians need public transit just as urgently as suburbanites

There is a continuing misunderstanding of rural realities by policymakers. Ultimately this puts transit out of reach for many rural areas.
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Opinion: Why does government help strangle Canadian businesses?

Opinion: Why does government help strangle Canadian businesses?

Port expansions further lock us into a fragile, energy-intensive system of globalized trade with many distant links in a chain we have no local control over.  
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Keith Baldrey: COVID-19 health emergency comes to an anticlimactic end

Keith Baldrey: COVID-19 health emergency comes to an anticlimactic end

As the World Health Organization declares the "emergency" phase over, we know COVID-19 isn't going away.
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Rob Shaw: How the legislature turned into the Twilight Zone

Rob Shaw: How the legislature turned into the Twilight Zone

In which the BC NDP thwart the government lawyers' attempt to create their own bargaining unit
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Letters: Minoru parking for seniors awkward

Letters: Minoru parking for seniors awkward

A senior Richmond News reader wants safer parking options at the Minoru Seniors Centre.
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Rob Shaw: Pointed questions about an MLA's expenses unfurl an unexpected answer

Rob Shaw: Pointed questions about an MLA's expenses unfurl an unexpected answer

BC United questions ran into answers they didn't anticipate
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Letters: Senator disputes exclusion comparison

Letters: Senator disputes exclusion comparison

B.C. senator Yuen Pau Woo clarifies his comment linking the foreign influence registry to Chinese exclusion.
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Column: Symbols, celebrations, ceremonies and lots of gold

Column: Symbols, celebrations, ceremonies and lots of gold

A bit of pomp and circumstance helps draw us together
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Letters: Stop, vandals!

Letters: Stop, vandals!

Students at a local elementary school are fed up with vandalism at the school
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Les Leyne: Premier David Eby takes on lawyers — again

Les Leyne: Premier David Eby takes on lawyers — again

The B.C. NDP government has introduced a one-page bill that bestows the right to join a union on the 350 lawyers who work for government. There’s a catch.
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