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POLL: Does concern over COVID-19 affect your spring travel plans?

POLL: Does concern over COVID-19 affect your spring travel plans?

As of Tuesday one Greater Victoria school let out early for spring break after a reported contact with the new coronavirus. School districts here and across the province are scrapping or delaying spring break travels.
Rickter Scale: Pour some sugar tax on me

Rickter Scale: Pour some sugar tax on me

The Rickter Scale is a regular column
LETTER - Herring fisherman offers industry’s side of the debate

LETTER - Herring fisherman offers industry’s side of the debate

Paid protestors want to stop a way of life they know nothing about
SUZUKI: Pipeline actions signal need for true reconciliation

SUZUKI: Pipeline actions signal need for true reconciliation

Actions by and in support of the Wet’suwet’en land defenders are as much about government failure to resolve issues around Indigenous rights and title as they are about pipelines and gas.
B.C. VIEWS: We can’t ignore the little things, lest they grow into a pandemic

B.C. VIEWS: We can’t ignore the little things, lest they grow into a pandemic

COVID-19 can help us prepare for the major pandemic experts say is still to come
RICKTER: We thinks thou protest too much

RICKTER: We thinks thou protest too much

Once upon a time there was an idyllic little town that lived by the letter of the law. Traffic concerns surfaced as the population moved from the occasional annoying slow down to full-blown gridlock at one particular corner.
COLUMN: Higher tax bracket ‘a risky game’ in the 2020 B.C. budget

COLUMN: Higher tax bracket ‘a risky game’ in the 2020 B.C. budget

Jock Finlayson is executive vice president and chief policy officer of the Business Council of BC
Column: Celebrating family in Esquimalt

Column: Celebrating family in Esquimalt

A column brought to you by Esquimalt Parks and Recreation
COLUMN: Forestry no longer close to top of B.C.’s economy

COLUMN: Forestry no longer close to top of B.C.’s economy

Our reactions to a forestry downturn reflect the past, not the present
EDITORIAL: Time for an end to blockades

EDITORIAL: Time for an end to blockades

Holding the economy hostage a poor way to achieve reconciliation