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David Sovka: Physical violence and other birthday traditions

David Sovka: Physical violence and other birthday traditions

In Spain, they tug hard on your ear once for every year you’ve lived. In the 1970s Canada, they banged your bum on the ground, once for every year, and fed you cake containing choking hazards
BBB: Looking for Ozempic? Here’s how to avoid buying phony medication

BBB: Looking for Ozempic? Here’s how to avoid buying phony medication

Experts are alerting local residents of low prices on medical aids like Ozempic as they may be too good to be true.
Letter: Cheap, clean, renewable energy is the key to a better future

Letter: Cheap, clean, renewable energy is the key to a better future

Why would Ottawa subsidize the corporations that are responsible for the climate crisis while we are forced to shoulder the costly impacts of extreme weather? this letter writer asks.
Letter: Pick up your dog waste, Port Moody resident pleads

Letter: Pick up your dog waste, Port Moody resident pleads

This Port Moody letter writer claims to have picked up 30 piles of dog poop in two days in the off-leash park at Rocky Point Park.
Greg Perry cartoon: ER wait times are getting pretty deadly

Greg Perry cartoon: ER wait times are getting pretty deadly

Letter: Invest in rebuilding Hazel Trembath Elementary

Letter: Invest in rebuilding Hazel Trembath Elementary

In just five days, a petition to pressure the government to rebuild Hazel Trembath Elementary School has garnered nearly 1,200 signatures, the Port Coquitlam letter writer states.
Opinion: Trudeau government only winner in Emergencies Act decision

Opinion: Trudeau government only winner in Emergencies Act decision

The Federal Court has done nothing more than say the federal government was not justified in invoking the Emergencies Act.
Rob Shaw: B.C. government appeals ruling over restricted drug use

Rob Shaw: B.C. government appeals ruling over restricted drug use

Premier has expressed frustration province can regulate use of tobacco, alcohol – but not that of hard drugs
Rob Shaw: All eyes on Robinson as B.C. schools vie for international students

Rob Shaw: All eyes on Robinson as B.C. schools vie for international students

New cap on international students has post-secondary institutes eager to tap as many seats as possible from the minister
Baldrey: Children, family ministry is the toughest file in B.C.'s government

Baldrey: Children, family ministry is the toughest file in B.C.'s government

There have been 14 ministers in the role since its creation in 1996. Why columnist Keith Baldrey believes they've been "judged harsher" than any other MLA.