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Wait times to see a dermatologist are now so long, provincial Health Minister Terry Lake has felt obliged to intervene. Lake visited the only skin-care specialist in Kamloops recently and inquired what could be done. There is indeed a problem.

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Remote-control surveillance aircraft, once a mainstay of science fiction, are becoming increasingly common and more sophisticated. Regulations regarding these devices, also called unmanned aerial vehicles, need to catch up to the technology.

British Columbia falls somewhere in the middle of Canadian provinces in standard-of-living rankings, but solidly at the bottom when it comes to child poverty.

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Free speech is the lifeblood of democracy, but protesters in Oak Bay abused that freedom on Saturday. About 45 demonstrators opposed to Oak Bay鈥檚 plan to cull deer marched from Oak Bay Avenue to the home of Mayor Nils Jensen.