4 d. ago Letters to The Sun: Students' efforts to get AEDs in schools following tragic event deserve recognition

Re: B.C. orders defibrillators, naloxone in schools, but cash-strapped districts say there’s no money to buy them Re: This student watched his friend die: He’s angry Vancouver won’t mandate life-saving medical device in schools Thank you so much, Lori Culbert, for your follow-up article. Kudos to the classmates led by Tobias Zhang of Point Grey […]

Society

9 d. ago Letters to The Vancouver Sun: Hastings needs help to preserve horse racing in B.C.

Sept. 5, 2025, letters to The Vancouver Sun.

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9 d. ago Government support both from the city and the province is required now. Don't allow what happened to Cloverdale happen at Hastings.

Sept. 5, 2025, letters to The Vancouver Sun.

Politics

2 w. ago Letters to The Sun: Slashing our college and universities cannot come at a worse time

Re: KPU set to lay off more staff as international student enrolment plummets As a Kwantlen Polytechnic University faculty member, I feel the impact of each round of layoffs, even if I am not personally impacted. As a co-worker, I personally know the people being laid off. As in any union workplace, layoffs are by […]

Society

2 w. ago People from the suburbs are planning to boycott Toronto while working in city

New return-to-office mandates handed down by the provincial government are making waves this week, particularly among the tens of thousands of staffers affected — some of whom are now vowing to boycott Toronto's businesses in protest of having to physically return to their downtown workplaces.Earlier this month, Premier Doug Ford informed Ontario's public service workers that they will have to resume five-day in-person work weeks starting January 5, 2026, signalling an end to the hybrid, COVID-era work model that required only three days on the ground.While the leader pointed to the big banks and other firms that have already reintroduced mandatory in-person work — and despite this all being a fairly gradual process that was a long time coming — many are still up in arms.One employee of an unnamed company took to Toronto Reddit to assert they will "not buy anything" in the city while they'...

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3 w. ago Retail in Edmonton suburbs thrives while Downtown works to revive

While Edmonton’s Downtown continues to try and rebuild to become the hub it once was, experts say the city’s suburbs are a sure bet for retail. “We don’t have the peaks and valleys like they do in Calgary because of our sort of steady employment bases being government and educational institutions, so our suburbs work […]

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3 w. ago Letters to The Sun: Firefighters deserve the best tools: more Super Scooper planes

Canada is on fire. Each year it seems to get worse, but even though our suppression efforts on ground and by air are intense, firefighters require more water-dropping power to knock down the fires. The Super Scooper aircrafts, such as the Canadair 415 or now the De Havilland Canada DHC-515, are wonderful crafts — versatile […]

Events

4 w. ago Letters to the Sun: No regrets about leaving the city for the suburbs 

Letters to the Sun: No regrets about leaving the city for the suburbs 

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