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What $600,000 buys across B.C.
A Vancouver School Board survey has found the high cost of housing is the major reason parents are pulling their kids out of the city’s schools. Few homes are priced at less than $600,000 in Vancouver. Here’s a comparison, looking at detached homes for less than $600,000 in Vancouver and in four other B.C. cities.
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Canmore has declared a state of emergency due to heavy rainfall and high water. Here's a look in photos.
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Pete McMartin: Ten minutes with Donald Trump
There he is, in the flesh, without the distorting lens of TV between us, wearing a patriotic colour-schemed outfit of red tie, white shirt and blue business suit. His face is florid, or tan, I can’...
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No one who met Garde Gardom was likely to forget the vigorous presence, the town crier’s voice, and the ever-present laugh, his head thrown back, him savouring every moment, the original hale-fellow-well-met of the B.C. political scene. Gardom was elected in 1966, defeating Social Credit stalwart Robert Bonner. In the subsequent decade, he was one of a trio of Liberal MLAs who led the exodus to the Bill Bennett-led revamped Social Credit.
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View from the Ledge
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Ian Mulgrew: Reform or die, report tells legal profession
Many lawyers will be out of work if the profession doesn’t consider radical reforms of how it does business in the face of 21st-century challenges and consumer anger. A thoughtful new 44-page report by the Canadian Bar Association warns that the country’s 37,000 legal professionals, about 10,000 of them in B.C., are in big trouble.
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Daphne Bramham: Refugees and their hosts pay high cost of Syria’s civil war
Come Thursday — World Refugee Day — and Syrians represent one of the largest refugee populations in the world. By year’s end, the UN estimates that the number will swell to more than three million if the war continues.
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Vaughn Palmer: Bill Bennett expects Columbia River Treaty to continue
As lead minister for B.C. on the looming discussions with the U.S. on the Columbia River Treaty, Bill Bennett has no illusions about what the province might be facing on the other side of the table. “The Americans negotiate like the Boston Bruins play hockey,” said Bennett, referring to the elbows-up style of the team leading the Stanley Cup Final. “They are aggressive negotiators for their own interest.”
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Shelley Fralic: Planting the seeds for a new kind of urban garden
As calling cards go, it’s about as unusual — and effective — as they get. That’s because one of the ways Judy Kenzie advertises her new heirloom seeds business is to drive around Vancouver with a farm in the back of her truck. Literally. A farm. In the back of her truck.
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Barbara Yaffe: British Columbians flee rising housing costs
Another year older, and deeper in debt. The saying has special relevance in Vancouver, where so many are financially squeezed. A study by TransUnion, an Ontario-based risk-management company, reported recently that British Columbians are the most heavily indebted Canadians.
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Vaughn Palmer: B.C.’s financial honeymoon ends with Columbia River Treaty anniversary
As newly appointed cabinet minister for BC Hydro, Bill Bennett inherited the provincial share of an emerging challenge in Canada-U.S. relations. “Conclude the provincial consultations on the Columbia River Treaty and present options to cabinet for any improvements that can be made to the treaty,” was the way Premier Christy Clark put it in her mandate letter to Bennett last week.
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Jonathan Manthorpe: Australia’s Gillard faces palace coup as election defeat looms
Australian politics is delightfully idiosyncratic, which is why former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s decision last week to wear a blue tie is seen as absolute confirmation he is bent on the political assassination of his successor Julia Gillard. Australians are due to vote in a national election in mid-September with polls showing that Gillard’s Labor Party government is in for an unprecedented thrashing.
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Ian Mulgrew: Insurance company off the hook for woman’s $27,000 medical bill, appeal court rules
A Victoria woman must pay $27,000 in U.S. medical bills because she didn’t bother to read her travel insurance policy, the B.C. Court of Appeal says. It unanimously rejected a lower-court ruling that the policy was difficult to understand.
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Editorial: Fathers are worth celebrating
If popular culture provides us with an accurate portrayal of society’s attitudes, then we certainly have an ambivalent attitude toward fathers.
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Guest editorial: Sick day reform overdue
Kudos to Treasury Board president Tony Clement for finally launching long-overdue reform of the anachronistic banked sick leave system in the federal public service.
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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. New Democrats settle back into familiar role of opposing the government
When B.C. Liberal MLAs assembled in the legislative chamber to take their oaths of office this week, they lined up in alphabetical order on the Opposition as well as the government side, an arrangement that occasioned a laugh line or two.
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Pete McMartin: It’s really just the natural odeur of things
I was beginning to despair that at this late stage in my career I would never have the chance to quote in this space my favourite aphorism, since the subject matter it addresses rarely presents itself. Happily, it has. The subject matter is male flatulence.
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Shelley Fralic: Man’s arrested development
So pervasive is the phenomenon of the failure-to-launch generation of modern young men that it has become the target of sociological exploration, the most recent a just-released British study commissioned by Nickelodeon UK that claims the age at which men today reach maturity — at least in the emotional sense — is, wait for it, 43. Which, notes the study, is 11 years later than for women.
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Don Cayo: We need a better way to set pay for senior government officials
No matter how you view the latest political pay flap — whether you condemn fat salaries for fat cats, or worry that second-class salaries buy second-class leadership — you must admit the current system is a poor way to decide who gets how much when.
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Daphne Bramham: More trouble in coastal paradise
The district of Sechelt is one troubled municipality where the bad news just keeps rolling in. At noon on Friday, its unionized staff went on strike, leaving only a skeleton crew of three at the two sewage treatment plants and three at the RCMP office.
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