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Viewpoint: Doing the right thing requires moral courage and wise leadership

Viewpoint: Doing the right thing requires moral courage and wise leadership

If reconciliation means anything it means coming to terms with our colonial settler history and replacing the value system it is grounded on by one based on recognition, dignity and respect. ~ Fred Guerin
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Cartoon: Done with 2021

Cartoon: Done with 2021

Are you ready to flip the calendar to 2022?
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Viewpoint: Truth and reconciliation require more than a name change

Viewpoint: Truth and reconciliation require more than a name change

How many people in this city knew, before the residential school horror became known, how Powell River got its name? ~ Jim Rose
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Poll: More than three quarters of qathet region respondents do not have flood insurance

Poll: More than three quarters of qathet region respondents do not have flood insurance

Only 23 per cent indicate having coverage
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Opinion: Yes, I cried when my child got her COVID-19 vaccine. This is why.

Opinion: Yes, I cried when my child got her COVID-19 vaccine. This is why.

One reporter mom's response to those who ask: Why are you crying over a jab?
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Jack Knox: How bad is it? Other Canadians feel sorry for us

Jack Knox: How bad is it? Other Canadians feel sorry for us

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Poll highlights deep e-commerce age gap

Poll highlights deep e-commerce age gap

71% of those 55 and over prefer to buy things in person, compared with only 39% of Canada’s youngest adults.
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Canadians think drivers are getting better, poll finds

Canadians think drivers are getting better, poll finds

Proportion of Canadians who say drivers in their municipality are worse than five years ago drops to 30% from 47% in 2019.
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Letter: Voters have much to think about

Letter: Voters have much to think about

Over the life of our current council, house prices have doubled, rental housing is essentially impossible to find, child poverty rates have risen to some of the highest in the country and 70 per cent-plus of people buying homes here are from somewhere else.. ~ John Young
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Opinion: Emergencies overshadow new B.C. legislation

Opinion: Emergencies overshadow new B.C. legislation

For the first time in about 20 months, the B.C. legislature opens its doors to the public this week, just as the politicians have headed home until next February.
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