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Wild West-style campaign funding needs reforming

For many of us in Canada, as we watch with morbid fascination the gong show grotesqueries of the current U.S.

City needs better tree trimming policy

To the editor: Re: "Letter of the Week," Oct. 12. Tracey Young rightly asks for an "action plan" to maintain Vancouver's existing trees. My several calls about trees since 2007 brought only the response that pruning is done on a seven-year cycle.

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Thin streets buy-in irrelevant to mayor

To the editor: Re: "Mayor won't force thin streets on any neighbourhood," Oct. 5. So Mayor Gregor Robertson won't be forced on communities without their buy-in. Where have we heard that one before? Oh, yes.

Letter of the week

To the editor, This Thursday, I, along with over half a million British Columbians, will stop, drop and cover when we take part in the Great British Columbia Shakeout.

Time travel key to American politics

Reagan actually who he seemed to be

City needs better tree trimming policy

To the editor: Bravo to Tracey Young for her well-written letter on overgrown trees in the city.

Conservative train wreck common for B.C.

Far from being an unusual event, the ongoing train wreck that has engulfed the B.C. Conservative Party and its leader John Cummins is actually pretty standard fare in B.C. politics.

Social isolation hardest on seniors

To the editor: Re: "Isolation bad for democracy," Oct. 5 Tom Sandborn is right that we, as a society, need to make more efforts to connect with each other.

Letter of the week

To the editor: Re: "Fruits and Nuts," Central Park, Oct. 5.
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