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Comment: Saanich voters flex their muscles to oppose AAP

Comment: Saanich voters flex their muscles to oppose AAP

A commentary by the vice-chair of Grumpy Taxpayer$ of Greater Victoria More than 10,000 Saanich residents made the effort to vote — during a few...

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Letters July 28: Improving health care; Saanich's operations centre

Letters July 28: Improving health care; Saanich's operations centre

Looking from afar, I seriously have to wonder what is happening in British Columbia with respect to the delivery of emergency medical care and what...

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Gene Miller: Kiwanis project shows affordable housing isn't just a dream

Gene Miller: Kiwanis project shows affordable housing isn't just a dream

Honestly, what better place to start a housing-affordability discussion than with the two-part headline in the June 24 Globe and Mail real estate...

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Trevor Hancock: We can't grow our way out of problems created by growth

Trevor Hancock: We can't grow our way out of problems created by growth

Mark Carney may not have called his Bill C-5 — now the Building Canada Act — a big, beautiful bill, but it does come out of much the same mould as...

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Monique Keiran: Court battle with U.S. farmer puts B.C. cherries in spotlight

Monique Keiran: Court battle with U.S. farmer puts B.C. cherries in spotlight

Cherry season has arrived, and the contents of our refrigerator and diet are skewing SKU 4045, the grocery checkout code for B.C. cherries that is...

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David Sovka: Good night, Margaret. Sweet dreams

David Sovka: Good night, Margaret. Sweet dreams

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into...

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Comment: Victoria's safety plan is too late

Comment: Victoria's safety plan is too late

A commentary by a community safety practitioner. The citizens of Victoria finally have a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan. It’s taken the City...

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Letters July 26: City's pet projects; meaning of true leadership

Letters July 26: City's pet projects; meaning of true leadership

With regard to road changes in Victoria, an exasperated letter wonders: “What is wrong with the engineering department at the city? Can’t they see...

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Adrian Raeside cartoon: BCGEU members working their second job

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Editorial: We need a strong stand on early parole

Editorial: We need a strong stand on early parole

By law, the punishment for first-degree murder is an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. Or it used to be. Now, two B.C....

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Letters July 25: Roundabouts; destroying nature of Shelbourne corridor

Letters July 25: Roundabouts; destroying nature of Shelbourne corridor

The experiment at Cook Street and ­Southgate Street is more akin to a crop circle. It is mysterious in its existence to the locals. Being that it...

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Comment: Save Our Saanich isn't saving money

Comment: Save Our Saanich isn't saving money

A commentary by a retired ­professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy. I wish I could...

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Comment: Death of Texada Island grizzly teaches lesson in wildlife management

Comment: Death of Texada Island grizzly teaches lesson in wildlife management

A commentary by the director of the Wild Origins of Canada ­Foundation, a B.C.-based ­non-profit. The recent death of a well-known grizzly bear on...

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Letters July 24: Cook Street traffic; remembering Ozzy Osbourne

Letters July 24: Cook Street traffic; remembering Ozzy Osbourne

For the past five years, I have been ­suggesting that the government provide GPS trackers on all people with dementia who “wander.” How much time...

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