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Comment: Don't allow cellphones, but boost funding for Chromebooks

Comment: Don't allow cellphones, but boost funding for Chromebooks

Teachers in a classroom cannot compete with the lure of the internet.
Comment: B.C. contradicts itself with tobacco investment

Comment: B.C. contradicts itself with tobacco investment

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in British Columbia, causing up to 6,000 deaths in the province each year.
Monique Keiran: Global climate shifts are redefining winter almost everywhere

Monique Keiran: Global climate shifts are redefining winter almost everywhere

The season is acquiring a looser set of characteristic features, harder to specify, more variable and more unpredictable.
Trevor Hancock: Vaping products should be subject to same marketing ban as tobacco

Trevor Hancock: Vaping products should be subject to same marketing ban as tobacco

Canada should ban all advertising, marketing, promotion and sponsorship involving vaping companies to avoid hooking a new generation of smokers
Geoff Johnson: How to develop the reading brain in a digital world

Geoff Johnson: How to develop the reading brain in a digital world

‘Deep reading,’ the process of reading attentively and carefully as opposed to skimming or scrolling a screen, helps kids develop capacity for critical thinking, empathy and reflection
Adrian Raeside cartoon: A pet makes its views known at a custody hearing

Adrian Raeside cartoon: A pet makes its views known at a custody hearing

Editorial: The one human condition behind most of our social issues

Editorial: The one human condition behind most of our social issues

There are now decades of peer-reviewed studies and stacks of books to show the devastating effects of loneliness on individuals and societies,
Opinion: NDP lack credibility on electrification

Opinion:  NDP lack credibility on electrification

As we import electricity from our neighbours, we can be thankful that BC Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell had the foresight in 2010 to announce Site C
Rob Shaw: Feds, province at loggerheads over caps on international students

Rob Shaw: Feds, province at loggerheads over caps on international students

B.C. housing minister: 'The core issue we still have, regardless, is we are not building enough housing for the people we have.'
John Ducker: Why winter tires are important when it's below 7C

John Ducker: Why winter tires are important when it's below 7C

As temperatures drop, rubber in summer or all season tires hardens, becoming more inflexible and killing traction — the thing you want most in poor road conditions.
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