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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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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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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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Opinion: Health Canada should be transparent about how it's monitoring drug safety

Opinion: Health Canada should be transparent about how it's monitoring drug safety

All new drugs that have never before been sold in Canada in any form, as well as all opioids, require RMPs to help safeguard the public.
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Ryan Beil: 3 rules for heckling at the ballpark

Ryan Beil: 3 rules for heckling at the ballpark

The golden rules of shouting stuff out at a ballgame
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Canadians remain divided about medical assistance in dying, poll finds

Canadians remain divided about medical assistance in dying, poll finds

Next month, Canada will mark seven years since the successful passage of Bill C-14, which legalized medical assistance in dying across the country.
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Les Leyne: Two provinces, two approaches to opioid crisis

Les Leyne: Two provinces, two approaches to opioid crisis

B.C. is emphasizing harm reduction, which implicitly accepts people will use drugs. Most of Alberta’s emphasis is on recovery.
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Opinion: Still not asking for it

Opinion: Still not asking for it

This is the 'Me Too' era, and it’s about time.  
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