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A huge red flag should be waving about the impartiality of a retail-impact study reporting that Walmart plans to build a store as part of the Sandown commercial site in North Saanich.

Provincial NDP Leader John Horgan is promising to raise the minimum wage to $15 if his party wins next May鈥檚 election. Currently, the rate is set at $10.45 an hour, rising to $10.85 later this year and $11.25 in September 2017. Horgan has a point.

The sa国际传媒 government has announced a new $2.7-million program to prevent some rural schools from closing. Called the 鈥渞ural education enhancement fund,鈥� it is both an important step in bolstering small communities and a transparent pre-election ploy.

The United Kingdom鈥檚 vote to leave the European Union is a serious matter, no doubt about it, but let鈥檚 wait a while before we panic.

As has been stressed repeatedly throughout the tent-city controversy, homeless people are human beings, with faces, stories, families 鈥� and names. The federal government should record those names.

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While the Car Free YYJ event was a great success, it should not be seen as an endorsement of turning any particular street in Victoria鈥檚 downtown into a permanent pedestrian mall.

Victoria鈥檚 withdrawal from the Greater Victoria Labour Relations Association is a risk, and if it鈥檚 the wrong move, it will hit the taxpayers in the wallet.

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