Letters

I read with interest the article by Samantha Holomay on the unsafe Uptown intersection. Nicole Francis, mentioned in the article, is quite right in her comment about vehicles turning with little regard for those crossing the road (I include reference to bicycles as vehicles).

Driving around looking at all the concrete barriers supposedly designed to protect cyclists makes a person think about the new problems that will come up because of them.

The article on the Victoria man furious with operating room and staff shortage makes me extremely angry.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks “truth to power,” we often hear, which supposedly explains why so many admire him. The fact that he often comes across as an egomaniac is irrelevant to the message, almost beside the point.

To be brief, I am totally against Saanich council’s People, Pets and Parks strategy.

I read, with admiration, the article about the demonstration at the Legislature regarding global warming with David Suzuki at its helm – what a valiant fighter he is, even at his advanced age.

Repeating the same thing and expecting a different result is short-sighted, to say the least. So it’s baffling why School District 61 would choose to replace one crumbling artificial turf field at Oak Bay High with the same stuff.

Are you worried about climate change? Me too. Polls increasingly show most of us are. With good reason.

In a ruthless move, Meta – owner of Facebook and Instagram – recently killed all Canadian news content on its social media platforms, effectively blocking anyone from viewing news content or posting links to it themselves. Major Canadian news providers, smaller media companies, journalists, and ordinary citizens are just collateral damage in this act of retaliation by the social media behemoths to Canada’s new Online News Act. Google threatens to follow suit.

The decision by Saanich council to ram through the People, Pets and Parks Strategy enrages me on two fronts. The first is the lack of democratic process. Council’s refusal to work with, at no cost, professional environmentalists, dog trainers, disability groups, and other stakeholders as well as the decision to not contact each household in Saanich to explain the proposal in the first place makes it impossible to believe council is representing the people and screams undue influence.