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Reader Soapbox: Two competing visions for Vancouver's growth

Sam Sullivan, Gordon Gibson offer diametrically opposed solutions in duelling essays

Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­realtors cater to wealthy offshore Chinese as middle class gets squeezed

Premier Christy Clark, Mayor Gregor Robertson watch from the sidelines

(An example of the butt burner. I am not in this picture.) Friday morning I, Sandra Thomas , completed 200 crunches and 200 butt burners at the boot-camp class I attend at Eastside Fitness on Fraser Street. And that was all before work.

City should invest in water cannons for playoffs

To the editor: Re: "City's playoff plan better be moronproof," March 28. Unfortunately the line has already been drawn by VPD Chief Jim Chu. His "don't come downtown" edict will become the rallying cry of the "morons.

Letter of the week

To the editor: Re: "Indian restaurant stares down city hall over facade," March 16. This is truly unbelievable.

Angry BCTF sets off taxpayer

To the editor: Re: "Teachers's union plan may include illegal strike," March 23. Notwithstanding my regard for good teachers in our province, I take exception to the BCTF's permanent state of anger as observed over four decades.

Black swan theory plays out in pounding Maui surf

Oversimplified models ignore outliers

TransLink vortex keeps sucking in the pols

TransLink: Don't go there. This is a warning to all politicians. The regional transit authority is a political trap. It nailed Mayor Gregor Robertson back in 2007 when he got caught without a two-zone ticket.

UBC needs to retool degrees for better use

To the editor: Re: "UBC rakes in big money within education racket," March 21. Mark Hasiuk speaks of the bloated UBC administration. He would have liked the 1950s when Dr. G.M. Shrum spent six hours a week running the physics department (7-9 a.m.

Midlife Man

WORLD'S GREATEST DAD Not to toot my own horn, but I am a fantastic parent. Firm but adaptable, reassuring but not smothering, authoritative but not authoritarian.
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