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Your letters: Medical cannabis v 'electric puha'

Jones confuses medicinal cannabis with the 'dope' that has harmed remote Maori communities

Your say: Catholic Church seeks absolute control

Readers speak out - Catholic Church, abortion and social housing in the wrong place.

Rachel Rose: First impressions count

A home's most important attributes are more than skin deep. writes columnist Rachel Rose

Kate Stewart: Being on trend simply distasteful

Just because something is "trending", it doesn't make it right, let alone tasteful.

Terry Sarten: Trying to stay cool

Columnist Terry Sarten is wondering where the cool went.

Editorial: What goes up must fall down

An out-of-control Chinese satellite carrying toxic chemicals is plummeting towards Earth

Steve Braunias: Secret Diary of Steven Joyce

COMMENT: I left Parliament for the last time. I didn't look back.

Opinion: System punishes us for doing well

New Zealand's boom and bust episodes are a fundamental economic flaw.

Your letters: When is a secular organisation not one?

RTL spokesman Ken Orr's protest over the "separation of church and state" is surprising.

Jay Kuten: Holding the Government to account

You can't begin to solve a problem if you're not willing to acknowledge it's there.

Rachel Stewart: Breaking free from addictive web

COMMENT: Online technology is hugely important but too much can be detrimental.

Your letters: Ratepayers pay twice over

'Mayors want Horizons to fund non-core facilities, but the poor old ratepayer pays twice.'

Conservation comment: Drastic plastic catastrophe

Plastic debris, transported by ocean currents around the entire globe, is found everywhere

Gwynne Dyer: The forever president (or not)

Xi is not likely to "do a Mao" in China. But the mistakes will accumulate nevertheless.

Fred Frederikse: Into the heart of darkness

Despite its mineral and horticultural riches, CAR is one of the world's poorest countries.

Your letters: NZers need better protection from migrants

More extensive background checks are needed on migrants from violent countries.

Jay Kuten: Empowering the dying patient

War is too important to be left to generals, death too important to be left to medics.

Have your say: End Of Life Choice bill info meeting falls short

Readers have their say: Assisted suicide; bees and gun control in the US