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LETTER: Higher wages the answer to staff shortages

LETTER: Higher wages the answer to staff shortages

A few words were left out from the headline on the article Employers feel the heat from red-hot job market. My suggested revision: Employers feel the heat from red-hot minimum wage/poorly paid job market. And really, wasn’t it rather ironic to choose an employer who owns nine fast-food franchises as the focal interviewee to speak to the issue about a lack of workers in Victoria who are willing to work for the low hourly wages such employers are willing to pay?
Check your Lotto 6/49 ticket: you could be a millionaire

Check your Lotto 6/49 ticket: you could be a millionaire

Ticket was purchased in Richmond, B.C., Saturday night
Yes, No sides aim for $500,000 in run up to electoral referendum facing court action

Yes, No sides aim for $500,000 in run up to electoral referendum facing court action

B.C. residents will get their chance to vote this fall
LETTER: Saanich waffling on the future of Haro Woods

LETTER: Saanich waffling on the future of Haro Woods

The waffling conduct of Saanich council on the future of Haro Woods is shameful and disheartening for all three parties with interest at stake, the forest, pedestrians, and bikers.
B.C. police help arrest Alberta doctor alleged to have targeted 5-year-old for sex

B.C. police help arrest Alberta doctor alleged to have targeted 5-year-old for sex

Fred Janke is facing charges of making arrangements to commit sexual offences against a child
VIDEO: Trans Canada crash on Vancouver Island snarls traffic

VIDEO: Trans Canada crash on Vancouver Island snarls traffic

At least one person is believed to be injured in the two-car crash
Family grieving after Kamloops man, 19, dies in workplace accident

Family grieving after Kamloops man, 19, dies in workplace accident

Brendan Stokes was employed at Kamloops Tirecraft, and was killed in some kind of accident
1 year after vanishing from the sky, B.C. pilot is remembered

1 year after vanishing from the sky, B.C. pilot is remembered

Alex Simmons and Sydney Robillard were in a Piper Warrior aircraft that left Alberta on June 8, 2017
B.C. woman outraged after 2 mountain goats killed along Highway 31

B.C. woman outraged after 2 mountain goats killed along Highway 31

A nanny and a kid goat were struck just north of Kaslo this week.
Indigenous woman fights to stay in Canada, saying traditional territory is B.C.

Indigenous woman fights to stay in Canada, saying traditional territory is B.C.

Mique’l Dangeli belongs to Tsimshian First Nation, whose territory straddles border of Alaska, B.C.