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EDITORIAL: Tolling or trolling

EDITORIAL: Tolling or trolling

The NDP have made good on their dumbest campaign promise, announcing Friday that they would eliminate tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges. What this will inevitably do is incent more people into their cars and onto the roads.
LETTER: Clean energy initiatives help meet climate goal

LETTER: Clean energy initiatives help meet climate goal

Dear Editor: Not everybody knows what is in the Copenhagen and Paris agreements and how much needs to be done. Prior to the Paris conference it was shown that we have to come to zero emissions in 2100.
LAUTENS: Beware of injecting today’s beliefs into past

LAUTENS: Beware of injecting today’s beliefs into past

Oh, start anywhere, but why not with the towering truth that his contemporary foes, over the smoke and fire of a war with more than 600,000 dead, treated Robert E.
EDITORIAL: Ubermensch

EDITORIAL: Ubermensch

In the eyes of Uber, our province may as well be its proverbial White Whale. For years now, the tech company has tried to make inroads into B.C. and every time, they’ve been swatted away. But now they’re closer than ever. This year, all three of B.C.
LETTER: A traffic fix may come at ballot box

LETTER: A traffic fix may come at ballot box

Dear Editor: We are approaching the winter season and yet again we see the failed policies of the local councils growing more critical every day on the North Shore roads.
BALDREY: NDP will be challenged to meet expectations

BALDREY: NDP will be challenged to meet expectations

Now the heavy lifting begins.
LETTER: Khadr settlement comment deserves a fact-check

LETTER: Khadr settlement comment deserves a fact-check

Dear Editor: Re: Terrorists Like Khadr Don’t Deserve Payouts From Us , Aug. 2 Mailbox. I was disappointed to read the letter you published, which indicated to me that the writer hasn’t taken the time to investigate the Omar Khadr matter.
EDITORIAL: A supreme idea

EDITORIAL: A supreme idea

A supposed rally by white supremacists in Vancouver failed in spectacular fashion over the weekend.
LETTER: Attack on megaprojects will cost us

LETTER: Attack on megaprojects will cost us

Dear Editor: Re: B.C. Hires Native Rights Lawyer on Pipeline , Aug. 11 front-page story. And so the attack begins on megaprojects designed to bring our natural resources, regardless of their provincial origin, to market while there is still a market.
LETTER: Pipeline economics questioned

LETTER: Pipeline economics questioned

Dear Editor: The Kinder Morgan expansion project is poised for construction and soon there will be about 350 tankers loaded with bitumen moving under the Lions Gate Bridge every year.