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Here's BIRD's new refundables tent and why it matters

Here's BIRD's new refundables tent and why it matters

The refundables program has raised more than $1.2 million over the past 25 years
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Letter: Site C an environmentally and fiscally an 'unacceptable' debt

Letter: Site C an environmentally and fiscally an 'unacceptable' debt

Dear Editor: Do you ever wonder what a family member or friend would have thought of this or that? I did, a few days after the shock of the insanity that is now a $16 billion Site C dam, had subsided a bit.
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Pandemic skeptics remain a fringe minority in B.C.

Pandemic skeptics remain a fringe minority in B.C.

15% of province's residents do not believe COVID-19 is a real threat, poll finds
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Three months in a plastic sleeping baggie: the true story of Richard the Tick

Three months in a plastic sleeping baggie: the true story of Richard the Tick

Dick is an ambitious little tick
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Wood chip fundraiser March 6 on the health centre lot clearing

Wood chip fundraiser March 6 on the health centre lot clearing

On Saturday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the wood chips will be available to the public by donation at our Lot 3 site on Miller Road. 
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Opinion: Tesla owners: enviro-saviours or enviro-Chads?

Opinion: Tesla owners: enviro-saviours or enviro-Chads?

'For a while, every time I saw a Tesla drive past me on the highway, I could feel myself throw up a little in my mouth. It was a bitter, bitter taste.'
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Canadians pounce on cat-ownership opportunities during pandemic: poll

Canadians pounce on cat-ownership opportunities during pandemic: poll

Eighteen per cent of cat owners brought pets into their households after the advent of COVID-19.
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Letter: A love letter from B.I. Football Club

Letter: A love letter from B.I. Football Club

'This is a love letter, from the club president, to those who have ensured BIFC was able to provide all that it did this year
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'Infectious as well': We need to be practising kindness

'Infectious as well': We need to be practising kindness

'If we could truly take this surge of kindness to heart and practise random acts of kindness all the time, it would be balm for healing some of the difficult situations we face.'
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Rising number of Canadians ready to rethink country's relationship with the monarchy: poll

Rising number of Canadians ready to rethink country's relationship with the monarchy: poll

Prince Charles remains royally unpopular with Canadians.
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