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Preliminary applications for 3 towers seek public feedback

- Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell by Katherine Monk. Published by Greystone Books, 320 pages, 15 b&w photographs.

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Tim Hortons customers kick in for needed kidney transplant

THERE was a lot of high-fiving and backslapping in B.C. Liberal ranks this past week after the B.C. Conservative party engaged in a public meltdown, but they're fooling themselves if they think their path to retain power is cleared of obstacles.

NORTH Shore athlete Billy Peterson was recently awarded the 2012 Special Olympics B.C. Spirit of Sport Award, one of the organization's five annual provincial honours.

B.C.'s municipal reps seek common ground

"We need sound long-term [transportation] policies based on agreed principles so that future governments, of any stripe, have a blueprint.