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Jack Knox: Sending handmade love through the Victoria-Ukraine pipeline

Jack Knox: Sending handmade love through the Victoria-Ukraine pipeline

The Compassionate Resource Warehouse has filled 13 40-foot shipping containers with aid from Vancouver Island to help Ukrainians.
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Jack Knox: How would you feel about becoming a lighthouse keeper?

Jack Knox: How would you feel about becoming a lighthouse keeper?

Even with a reduced number of light stations, it hasn’t been easy to find people to live/work at them.
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Rob Shaw: Expect Eby to press street safety with Trudeau on Sunday – even if it’s at a parade

Rob Shaw: Expect Eby to press street safety with Trudeau on Sunday – even if it’s at a parade

Premier David Eby and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet face-to-face for the first time Sunday, as several key federal-provincial issues continue to fester unresolved.
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Healthy Living: Where mindfulness, medicine and meditation merge

Healthy Living: Where mindfulness, medicine and meditation merge

"These methods have been “road tested” by me and I hope sharing will help others and be a positive force in someone’s recovery." ~ Robert Skender
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Cartoon: Household budget

Cartoon: Household budget

Have you had to adjust spending to due a higher cost of living?
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Viewpoint: Turn on the taps for the food bank

Viewpoint: Turn on the taps for the food bank

"It was made clear that “the taps are closed in January” and funds/food donations drastically slow down."
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Letter: Local group works on water rights issue

Letter: Local group works on water rights issue

"...province’s efforts to protect access to water and to ensure adequate supply through licensing have not been that successful."
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Peter Ewart: We need more community control over our forests

Peter Ewart: We need more community control over our forests

For too long, government forest policy has been under the thumb of the giant globalized forest companies with just about everyone else relegated to the sidelines. And we are seeing the results of this lop-sided big company domination with the sorry state of our forests today.
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Survey: Pessimism over the economy, personal finances in Canada is up across the country

Survey: Pessimism over the economy, personal finances in Canada is up across the country

Every six months, Research Co. and Glacier Media ask Canadians about the state of finances in the country and inside their homes.
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Jack Knox: After almost 105 years of life, a kind gesture remembered

Jack Knox: After almost 105 years of life, a kind gesture remembered

Lew Duddridge died Jan. 4. It was a good life, his wife Hilda says, made better along the way by the kindness of others.
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