Letters

In response to Mayor Stew Young’s comments in the Aug. 25 Goldstream Gazette calling citizens opposed to development “naysayers,” the citizens in the neighbourhood of the Millstream proposal understand the need for increased density. We have been taxpayers for many years and have contributed to the economy for Langford and deserve a retraction of this statement.

Why are the places that are providing COVID-19 testing charging so much? Why are they allowed to capitalize and gauge the community on this terrible pandemic?

I write to take issue with a letter published in Saanich News on Aug. 25. The writer asks “why do the mayors of Victoria and Saanich … claim that increased residential city development actually decreases greenhouse gas emissions?”

I recently moved from the North Park neighbourhood in Victoria to Royal Oak in Saanich.

Here we go again, in pandemic crisis mode for the fourth time.

More grumbling about a snap election. It is happening and with a blessed short campaign. Elections Canada has determined we can do this safely. Mail-in ballots make it easy for you to vote and there will be many opportunities to vote in advance polling. The hard part is deciding who to vote for.

I won’t pretend to claim I fully understand the official community plan (OCP) issues, and frankly my cynical mind tells me that taxpayers have limited if any influence on elected politicians hard bent on going forward with what they and their friends see as good for the rest of us regardless of our views.

Is a vaccine passport intruding on my privacy? Yes - but it is a measured and necessary action.

She is not Lang Lang, Clara Schumann, Billy Joel or Carole King, but she can play.

Thank you Nat Klein for your very concise description of our Sidney Wharf in your letter to the editor in the Aug. 19 News Review. We have a long way to go until 2028. I think we have had enough “change” in Sidney – from a delightful small town with a “big town” feeling into Condo City. Council: Leave some character behind, please.