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One in a series of four stories from British Columbian communities reflecting on how they dealt locally with the pandemic in 2020.

One in a series of four stories from British Columbian communities reflecting on how they dealt locally with the pandemic in 2020. 2020 has been anything but auspicious, but it certainly will be memorable. The year started fine.

One in a series of four stories from British Columbian communities reflecting on how they dealt locally with the pandemic in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic swept through Squamish, upending businesses, schools, municipal operations and more.

One in a series of four stories from British Columbian communities reflecting on how they dealt locally with the pandemic in 2020. 2020: what a year it was.

2020 brought significant challenges, and significant achievements and progress in Indigenous rights recognition.

With the dawn of the new year, and the emergence of new treatments and vaccines for COVID19, we have every reason to expect that 2021 will find us in a much better place than in 2020. And it is such a relief.

At the close of a very challenging year, it’s important to take stock of the lessons learned during the worst health and economic crisis in living memory.

My son, Peter, turned 15 this week, and he will be graduating from high school in a year and a half. He thinks deeply on big ideas, so I asked him recently about how he feels about the future.

We made it. The new year is at our doorstep along with a promise of the beginning of the end of the pandemic that locked us in its clutches much of this past year.

After a bruising election defeat, a deflated BC Liberal Party faces an existential crisis of renewal and modernization.