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Editorial cartoon: Aug. 22, 2017

Editorial cartoon: Aug. 22, 2017

Wildfires are a climate change wake-up call

Wildfires are a climate change wake-up call

Wildfires are sweeping B.C. Close to 900 have burned through 600,000 hectares so far this year, blanketing western North America with smoke. Fighting them has cost more than $230 million — and the season is far from over. It’s not just B.C.
Rant/Rave: Week of Aug. 17

Rant/Rave: Week of Aug. 17

TRICKS OF THE TRUNK Re: “ Trunk Trade: Unlicensed food market quietly growing in Richmond ,” Aug. 11, 2017. Web Only Sounds like a awesome idea. So long as everyone is aware that the quality may vary. –John H.
Spice up your drab, sexless bedroom walls with new Prince-inspired Pantone

Spice up your drab, sexless bedroom walls with new Prince-inspired Pantone

Anyone still mourning the untimely death of music icon Prince while at the same time stumped for a colour to paint their living room’s accent wall — good news.
Foreign buyer tax one year on: Who was right?

Foreign buyer tax one year on: Who was right?

Just over a year ago, on August 2, 2016, the BC government introduced the 15 per cent Greater Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­foreign buyer tax . At the time, there was uproar.
Next Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­school board needs to focus on students not politics

Next Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­school board needs to focus on students not politics

Along with the announcement of an Oct.
City red tape continues to hamper affordability in Vancouver

City red tape continues to hamper affordability in Vancouver

I woke up Monday morning facing a dilemma.
Editorial Cartoon: Aug. 14, 2017

Editorial Cartoon: Aug. 14, 2017

Showdown looming over pipeline stall

Showdown looming over pipeline stall

B.C.’s New Democrats — with Greens cheering them on — are mounting a series of guerrilla actions against the Trans Mountain oil-pipeline expansion that could start a full-scale showdown with Ottawa and Alberta.
We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity

We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity

August 2 was Earth Overshoot Day . Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year.