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LETTERS: Saanich council right to hold line on taxes

LETTERS: Saanich council right to hold line on taxes

At the March 23 meeting Saanich council approved a core budget for 2020 with six for and three against.
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GUEST COLUMN: Take care with non-medical cloth masks during COVID-19

GUEST COLUMN: Take care with non-medical cloth masks during COVID-19

If you wear one, don’t touch your face, Dr. Bonnie Henry advises
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LETTERS: Calls on Employment Insurance not getting through

LETTERS: Calls on Employment Insurance not getting through

Has anyone been able to contact the government?
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LETTERS: Windsor Park tennis courts shouldn’t be a casualty of COVID-19

LETTERS: Windsor Park tennis courts shouldn’t be a casualty of COVID-19

Are there any other tennis buffs who think that locking up Windsor Park courts is a little bit over the top?
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LETTERS: Remember to breathe during crisis

LETTERS: Remember to breathe during crisis

In the beginning, when our world view went upside down, people indicated things felt surreal. They felt unfocused, absent minded and panicky. As the weeks have gone by, it is clearer that this is a profound time full of radical shifts and transitions. We are challenged to see our world, our selves in new ways continuously. This can be disorienting. How can we work with this?
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COLUMN: Economic impact of COVID-19 will be enormous and difficult to estimate

COLUMN: Economic impact of COVID-19 will be enormous and difficult to estimate

Jock Finlayson is executive vice president and chief policy officer of the Business Council of BC
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SUZUKI: Healthy forests mean healthy people

SUZUKI: Healthy forests mean healthy people

By David Suzuki
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COMMENTARY: Knowing where COVID-19 cases are does not protect you

COMMENTARY: Knowing where COVID-19 cases are does not protect you

Dr. Bonnie Henry explains why B.C. withholds community names
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COLUMN: The other graph that shows B.C. can beat COVID-19

COLUMN: The other graph that shows B.C. can beat COVID-19

Is the curve being flattened? data on hospitalizations provides a crucial answer.
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LETTERS: The need to scrap the plastic bag ban

LETTERS: The need to scrap the plastic bag ban

Some grocery stores have temporarily banned reusable shopping bags due to their risk of transmitting COVID-19. Fortunately the Victoria city bylaw that forbid businesses from providing plastic bags was struck down by the B.C. Court of Appeal last year, otherwise stores might not now have plastic bags for us to use.
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