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LETTER: Do your research before voting Pro Rep

LETTER: Do your research before voting Pro Rep

Historically, referendums that ask citizens to choose between first-past-the-post and proportional representation have failed when voters have been provided with a clear comparison between the two. For example, the first referendum on proportional representation in BC won 57 per cen support. But only 39 per cent voted in favour in the second referendum, when the public received details about how our voting system would actually change.
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LETTER: Truck wedge indicates dangers of map database-based driving

LETTER: Truck wedge indicates dangers of map database-based driving

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LETTER: Cost of not eliminating poverty outweighs cost of addressing it

LETTER: Cost of not eliminating poverty outweighs cost of addressing it

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Robert Barron column: Glad straps no longer used in schools

Robert Barron column: Glad straps no longer used in schools

You would have to hold out your hands, palms up to expose the most sensitive parts
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LETTER: Changing attitudes towards homeless people critical to solution

LETTER: Changing attitudes towards homeless people critical to solution

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GUEST COLUMN: A better way to manage B.C.’s public construction

GUEST COLUMN: A better way to manage B.C.’s public construction

Claire Trevena responds to Andrew Wilkinson on NDP union policy
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B.C. VIEWS: Cast your municipal vote for sanity on homelessness

B.C. VIEWS: Cast your municipal vote for sanity on homelessness

Thousands on waiting list while anti-capitalist bullies get priority
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GUEST COLUMN: B.C.’s union-only construction plan doesn’t benefit communities

GUEST COLUMN: B.C.’s union-only construction plan doesn’t benefit communities

B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson calls it payoff to NDP supporters
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LETTER: Out with the condos, in with the rental units

LETTER: Out with the condos, in with the rental units

The change to rental from condos for sale in the 200 Cook St project under construction is surely a landmark event for the badly underserved purpose built rental accommodation market in Victoria.
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LETTER: Cyclists not afforded same protections as motorcyclists

LETTER: Cyclists not afforded same protections as motorcyclists

As a cyclist, I recently had the unfortunate pleasure of having a motorcycle follow me, and subsequently pass me, in a bicycle lane. I believed this was an illegal practice – motorcycle driver trying to get past long stretches of traffic lines by passing them via bike lane. Not the first time this has happened to me.
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