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Les Leyne: New museum will be a monument to Indigenous reconciliation

Les Leyne: New museum will be a monument to Indigenous reconciliation

If there’s one project where Victoria’s track record of arguing everything to death needs to stop, it’s this one.
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Opinion: Public health suffers when pro sports goes all in on gambling

Opinion: Public health suffers when pro sports goes all in on gambling

On this issue I am prepared to be called a prude, a fogey and a knuckle-dragger.
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Opinion: Canadians spending less time cooking as pandemic wanes

Opinion: Canadians spending less time cooking as pandemic wanes

Fewer people abiding by Canada’s Food Guide recommendation to “put away distractions like the TV or electronics” while eating: poll.
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Les Leyne: $25 billion spent, thousands of new hires, B.C.'s health care still falls short

Les Leyne: $25 billion spent, thousands of new hires, B.C.'s health care still falls short

B.C.'s health-care workforce has grown to 223,000 in 2022 from 184,000 in 2018.
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Editorial: Are you a winner or a loser from high gas prices?

Editorial: Are you a winner or a loser from high gas prices?

If you think you're out of pocket from soaring gas prices, you might be wrong about that.
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Les Leyne: Some reasons why gas prices in B.C. are so much higher than in Alberta

Les Leyne: Some reasons why gas prices in B.C. are so much higher than in Alberta

Alberta is taking direct action to trim the price of gasoline. B.C. is taking a different approach.
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Opinion: I fell for a filthy moving scam in Burnaby. Here’s how to not end up like me

Opinion: I fell for a filthy moving scam in Burnaby. Here’s how to not end up like me

Some movers will hold your stuff hostage until you pay an extra fee they didn't tell you about.
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Opinion: Newspapers are not packaging

Opinion: Newspapers are not packaging

We cannot have a misguided system that puts newspapers at risk at a time when the public needs trusted sources of information more than ever before.
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Jack Knox: Legion on a mission to find medal-winners' families, but it's a tricky task

Jack Knox: Legion on a mission to find medal-winners' families, but it's a tricky task

Britannia had soldier's medals on display; now that it has closed, legion officials want to return the medals to families
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Opinion: Relevance of resurrecting abortion debate in Canada questioned

Opinion: Relevance of resurrecting abortion debate in Canada questioned

Canadian public opinion on the subject has not changed significantly for years, new poll shows.
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