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Jack Knox: Think COVID-19 is no big deal? It’s not about you

Jack Knox: Think COVID-19 is no big deal? It’s not about you

Clean hands? They want to see clean hands? The entire cast of Grey’s Anatomy hasn’t scrubbed up as much as you have in the past few days. Thoroughly, too, maybe even following one of those 13-pictogram charts showing proper technique.
Les Leyne: Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis

Les Leyne: Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis

The world suffered a pandemic a decade ago of a different sort. It was the banks that got sick, not people. But some of the impacts of the economic meltdown brought on by the banking collapse in 2008 might turn out to be similar.
Column: 'We are not allowed to move': Messages from a COVID-closed Italy

Column: 'We are not allowed to move': Messages from a COVID-closed Italy

Tri-City News editor Richard Dal Monte checks in from Coquitlam with friends and family in Italy about the effects of a nation-wide lockdown due to COVID-19
Les Leyne: Insurance companies create their own disaster

Les Leyne: Insurance companies create their own disaster

Insurance companies are going to be reaching a bizarre balance point this year, if they haven’t made it already.
Letter: Astronauts, activists & artists for International Women's Day

Letter: Astronauts, activists & artists for International Women's Day

"Real power comes when you treat every other individual with equality and respect," says letter writer Palak Sharma, a Port Moody secondary school student
Letter: How many more cyclists will die in Port Coquitlam?

Letter: How many more cyclists will die in Port Coquitlam?

City councils have failed pedestrians and cyclists when it comes to transportation and safety, says the Port Coquitlam letter writer
Opinion: Sorry, delivery drivers, you can’t just park wherever you want

Opinion: Sorry, delivery drivers, you can’t just park wherever you want

Life is admittedly difficult for people who deliver things for a living. Whether it’s a bike courier or a food-app worker or a person who delivers packages or food or furniture, time is your enemy.
Les Leyne: Reassuring message balances scary virus plan

Les Leyne: Reassuring message balances scary virus plan

British Columbia’s ranking health officials are balancing between reassuring people they’ll quite likely make it through the COVID-19 outbreak, while readying measures that sound quite frightening in order to make sure they do.
Opinion: Should I pressure my mom to cancel a cruise due to COVID-19?

Opinion: Should I pressure my mom to cancel a cruise due to COVID-19?

Cruise ship season on off B.C.’s coast is set to begin, but things are in a state of flux. Victoria’s first scheduled cruise ship of the 2020 season is floating near San Francisco over COVID-19-related issues involving previous passengers.
Les Leyne: Carole James faces Parkinson’s punch, and carries on

Les Leyne: Carole James faces Parkinson’s punch, and carries on

Everyone at the legislature was bustling through their busy lives Thursday. Lots of big things going on. Outrage that protesters double-crossed the government and refused to leave the building after being invited for a courtesy meeting.