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Don't feed the bears? Don't stop your car to video bears

Don't feed the bears? Don't stop your car to video bears

The Editor, Darwin award potential winners are alive and well in Coquitlam. Evidence: Driver cuts me off on left turn and then sees a bear. Driver comes to full stop on Thermal Drive. It's a one-lane street either direction.
Kind words & cash start ripple effect of kindness

Kind words & cash start ripple effect of kindness

The Editor, I felt bad holding up the bus as I took a long time to drop the correct change in for each child. My little charges, my son and I were heading to the water park at Blue Mountain Park.
BUCHOLTZ: Are ever-rising gas prices changing habits?

BUCHOLTZ: Are ever-rising gas prices changing habits?

T he soaring price of gasoline is on the minds of many people this summer. There is some evidence, mostly anecdotal, that it is starting to change people's habits. I've heard that Vancouver Island is hungry for tourists this summer.
NELSON: A tech & moral simplification

NELSON: A tech & moral simplification

B ritish Prime Minister David Cameron wants to end internet pornography using a program he calls "Default On." Default On would require U.K. internet service providers to block pornography from customers unless the customer "opts in" to porn access.
RADIA: A good step to protect children

RADIA: A good step to protect children

E arlier this week, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron revealed an interesting idea in an attempt to combat child pornography in his country. He wants every household in the U.K. to have its access to internet porn blocked by default.
EDITORIAL: Yummy season

EDITORIAL: Yummy season

Is there a better time of year to be a (hungry) resident of British Columbia? Chilliwack corn. Okanagan peaches and cherries. Blueberries and other produce from the Fraser Valley. This beautiful B.C. bounty offers summer meal possibilities aplenty.
Abolish Senate, it makes sense

Abolish Senate, it makes sense

The Editor, At one time, it was just common sense to abolish the Senate.
FLETCHER: Green MLA speaks about coal and controversy

FLETCHER: Green MLA speaks about coal and controversy

A fter climate scientist-turned-Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver had a taste of debate in the B.C. legislature, I asked him for his impressions on that and other issues.
EDITORIAL: Play if safe this summer

EDITORIAL: Play if safe this summer

Summer seems to be the season of senseless accidents. A jogger is hit by a train at a busy and well-marked crossing along White Rock's waterfront. A child falls from a window left open to capture a cooling breeze.
Stolen package only valuable to family

Stolen package only valuable to family

The Editor, To the person who stole the package off my parents' front porch last week on Westwood Plateau: The UPS package you took, perhaps by accident, really contained nothing of value to you.