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Editorial: Disaster planning helps ease burden when unthinkable strikes

Editorial: Disaster planning helps ease burden when unthinkable strikes

We are lucky to have good disaster planning teams on the North Shore. But we also need to take individual action to play our part.
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Letter: B.C.’s free air-conditioning program is a 'boondoggle'

Letter: B.C.’s free air-conditioning program is a 'boondoggle'

New West resident says provincial air-conditioning program is a "feel-good" gesture, but better options exist for keeping folks cool.
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Opinion: Ozempic, the 'miracle drug,' and the harmful idea of a future without fat

Opinion: Ozempic, the 'miracle drug,' and the harmful idea of a future without fat

The messaging around Ozempic being a miracle cure is not only a lie, it has kicked up a new level of fatphobia, argues Michael Orsini.
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Letter: Grouse Grind closure a disservice to the public

Letter: Grouse Grind closure a disservice to the public

The addition of trail hosts and rangers would bring more benefit than lengthy restoration projects, says reader
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Les Leyne: Hello Hullo — ferry service's delayed launch is smooth sailing

Les Leyne: Hello Hullo — ferry service's delayed launch is smooth sailing

First trip shows Nanaimo-Vancouver service has potential
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David Sovka: Global warming is man against everything, everywhere all at once

David Sovka: Global warming is man against everything, everywhere all at once

July 2023 is now officially the hottest month in human history, and August will probably be even hotter. I wish I were making this up.
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Opinion: How language can turn down the temperature of heated climate change discourse

Opinion: How language can turn down the temperature of heated climate change discourse

Language is adaptive, self-balancing and evolves with environmental change. Understanding this may be the key to improving the conversation around climate change.
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Goodman and Jagger: Time to return to predictable rental rate increases

Goodman and Jagger: Time to return to predictable rental rate increases

The B.C. NDP government has strayed from the traditional formula for rent increases
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Jamie Stephen: Canada's greatest climate challenge and responsibility is our forests

Jamie Stephen: Canada's greatest climate challenge and responsibility is our forests

As the world gets hotter, the need for human intervention in forests goes up, not down, writes Jamie Stephen.
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Suzanne Anton: We need to change the way decisions are made about our health

Suzanne Anton: We need to change the way decisions are made about our health

Too much power is invested in an unelected official, B.C.'s former attorney general argues
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